Short CV

• Assistent Professor, Leiden University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences,  (1985-present) 
• Member ISED (Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development) (2005-present) 
• Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University USA (2000) 
• Member of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Sstudies (1995-2004) 
• PhD in Gender Studies, Leiden University (1991) 
• Lecturer, Utrecht University, Department of Education (1982-1985)
• Lecturer, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Department of Sociology (1980-1982) 
• MA in Sociology, Radboud University, Nijmegen (1980)

Research

Disability history, in particular special education and the history of syndromes, developmental disorders  and child psychopathology. Projects: history of the first school for ‘idiotic children’ (at The Hague, in the second half of the 19th century); the discovery of autism in de Dutch context (in de late 1930's) and the history of the Cornelia de Lange-syndrome (also in the 1930's).

Relevant links

Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland - Ida Frye (Huygens ING)

See Dutch profile Annemieke van Drenth

Publications

Activities