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The first holder of the Frederik Meijer Chair in Dutch Language and Culture, Henk Aay has long had a scholarly interest in his native country. Born in the Netherlands in Contact: |
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Henk Aay |
1945, Aay settled with his family in Canada, graduating with a BA in geography and planning from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He earned a PhD in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and came to Calvin in 1982 as the college’s first full-time Ph.D. geographer. Aay has long studied the Netherlands, published on the geography of the country, served as a visiting scholar at the Free University of Amsterdam and University of Gronigen and led more than ten Calvin off-campus interim courses there. “I have had a passion for the Netherlands all my life,” said Aay. “It will be a privilege to make that passion part of the work of the new chair.”