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Department of American Studies
Kristi Dehan-Schmidt
Kristi Dehan-Schmidt
Kai Hopen
Kai Hopen
Dr. Tim Jelfs
Dr. Tim Jelfs
Dr. Suzanne Manizza-Roszak
Dr. Suzanne Manizza-Roszak
Dr. Anne Martinez
Dr. Anne Martinez
Dr. Ian Merkel
Dr. Ian Merkel
Hanne Nijtmans, MA
Hanne Nijtmans, MA
Dr. Jelte Olthof
Dr. Jelte Olthof
Dr. Jason Resnikoff
Dr. Jason Resnikoff
Dr. K.S. Roberts
Dr. Kathryn Roberts
Dr. Jennifer Schnepf
Dr. Jennifer Schnepf
Dr. Mark Thompson
Dr. Mark Thompson
Dr. Jeanette den Toonder
Dr. Jeanette den Toonder
Dr. Maarten Zwiers
Dr. Maarten Zwiers

Faculty and Staff

Faculty
E-mail
Title
Expertise

k.u.schmidt rug.nl

room 1315.0304

Lecturer

Research interests/teaching focus: History of and contemporary challenges facing the First Amendment (Freedom of speech) in the United States, specifically on university campuses; political utilization of the First Amendment by populist figures; access to speech/ socio-political engagement in the digital age; historical/ economic/ political sources causes for (in)voluntary migration movements between South America and North America as well as into Europe

k.e.hopen rug.nl

room 1315.0179

PhD student

PhD project on "The MacArthur Fellowships and the Making of Contemporary American Literature"

t.jelfs rug.nl

room 1315.0309

Assistant Professor
Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American literature, culture, politics and history; Democracy, imperialism and militarism in U.S. history, culture and politics; Marxist approaches to American culture
Manizza-Roszak, dr. S.M. (Suzanne)
s.manizza.roszak rug.nl
Assistant Professor
Multi-ethnic US and hemispheric American literature; comparative Caribbean literatures; children's and YA literature; the contemporary Gothic; diaspora studies; gender studies; ecocriticism and the more-than-human; multilingualism and translanguaging; creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writing

a.m.martinez rug.nl

room 1315.0308

Assistant Professor
Twentieth Century cultural and intellectual histories; U.S.-Mexico relations; Mexican American history and culture; American Catholicism; Religion and national identity

i.w.merkel rug.nl

room 1315.0324

Assistant Professor

History of Brazil and Latin America; Intellectual and Cultural History; History of the Social Sciences

jago.muller rug.nl

h.w.nijtmans rug.nl

Rode Weeshuisstraat 12,
room 115

ICOG funded PhD candidate 2021-2025

US Conspiracy Theories; Podcasts, Videogames, and Other New Media; 21st Century US Culture & History

jelte.olthof rug.nl

room 1315.0306

Assistant Professor
Legal and political history of the United States Constitution; American Government and Political Development; Antebellum American political history (1776-1865); Rhetorical Criticism

j.z.resnikoff rug.nl

room 1312.0521

Assistant Professor

US Labor History; History of Technology; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century US Intellectual History

k.s.roberts rug.nl

room 1315.0311

Assistant Professor

U.S. Literature and Culture (1900-present); Sociological and Institutional approaches; Creative and reproductive labor; Artist communities; Podcasts

j.d.schnepf rug.nl

room 1315.0314

Assistant Professor
US literature and culture (Contemporary), Gender, Imperialism, Media Studies

M.L.Thompson rug.nl

room 1315.0310

Assistant Professor
Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Early Republic, and the US South; Ethnicity, national identity and race; Early Modern Atlantic World

j.m.l.den.toonder rug.nl

room 1315.0191

Assistant Professor; Director Center for Canadian Studies
Canadian Studies; French and Francophone Contemporary Literature and Culture; Minority and First Nations Literature in Canada
e.m.young rug.nl
PhD student

m.zwiers rug.nl

room 1312.0525

Assistant Professor
U.S. History, History of the U.S. South, Political Culture, American Studies, Southern Studies, Regional Identity, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Civil War.
Staff
E-mail
Title

info-americanstudies rug.nl

room

Academic Advisor

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