An Age of Neutrals

Maartje Abbenhuis is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where she has worked since 2003. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2001. Her research interests lie in the history of neutrality and internationalism, especially in the period 1815 to 1918, the history of borderlands, and popular representations of Nazism. She has published widely on the history of the Netherlands in the First World War and co-edited two interdisciplinary collections, one on non-combatants and the other on Nazism in post-1945 popular culture. She was the recipient of two prestigious Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grants (one in 2004, the other in 2013) as well as a University of Auckland Early Career Excellence Award in 2008. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland awarded her an Early Career Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 and a Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. She is a member of several history associations including the Royal Dutch Historical Association, the New Zealand Historical Association and the Australasian Association of European Historians.