Siegfried Huigen#
| Membership Number: | 3606 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://wroc.academia.edu/SiegfriedHuigen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 – current University Professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural History, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland
- 2012 – current Visiting Professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural History, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- 2004 – 2012 Associate professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural History, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- 1999 – 2003 Senior lecturer of Dutch literature, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- July 1988 – 1998 Lecturer of Dutch literature, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Jan.- June, 1988 Junior lecturer of Dutch literature, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the Dutch colonialism
- History of Dutch literature
- History of colonial science and scholarship
- South African writing of the colonial period
- History of travel writing
Honours and Awards
- 2009 National Research Foundation of South Africa: ‘internationally acclaimed researcher’
- 2009 Research Fellowship KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
- 2007 Rector’s award for excellence in research, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2007 Scaliger Fellowship, University Library, Leiden, Netherlands
- 2004 National Research Foundation of South Africa, accreditation as researcher: 'established researcher'
