Staff















Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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E-mail
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Title
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Expertise
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Dehan-Schmidt, K.U. (Kristi)
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k.u.schmidt rug.nl room 1315.0304 |
Lecturer
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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
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PhD project on "The MacArthur Fellowships and the Making of Contemporary American Literature" |
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p.illner rug.nl room 1315.0324 |
Lecturer
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Critical Disaster Studies, Social Movement History, Social Reproduction Theory, Marxist-Feminism |
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t.jelfs rug.nl room 1315.0309 |
Assistant Professor
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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 |
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s.manizza.roszak rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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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 |
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a.m.martinez rug.nl room 1315.0308 |
Assistant Professor
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Twentieth Century cultural and intellectual histories; U.S.-Mexico relations; Mexican American history and culture; American Catholicism; Religion and national identity |
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i.w.merkel rug.nl room 1315.0324 |
Assistant Professor
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History of Brazil and Latin America; Intellectual and Cultural History; History of the Social Sciences |
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h.w.nijtmans rug.nl Rode Weeshuisstraat 12, |
ICOG funded PhD candidate 2021-2025
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US Conspiracy Theories; Podcasts, Videogames, and Other New Media; 21st Century US Culture & History |
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jelte.olthof rug.nl room 1315.0306 |
Assistant Professor
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Legal and political history of the United States Constitution; American Government and Political Development; Antebellum American political history (1776-1865); Rhetorical Criticism |
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j.z.resnikoff rug.nl room 1312.0521 |
Assistant Professor
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US Labor History; History of Technology; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century US Intellectual History |
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k.s.roberts rug.nl room 1315.0311 |
Assistant Professor
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U.S. Literature and Culture (1900-present); Sociological and Institutional approaches; Creative and reproductive labor; Artist communities; Podcasts |
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j.d.schnepf rug.nl room 1315.0314 |
Assistant Professor
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US literature and culture (Contemporary), Gender, Imperialism, Media Studies |
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M.L.Thompson rug.nl room 1315.0310 |
Assistant Professor
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Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Early Republic, and the US South; Ethnicity, national identity and race; Early Modern Atlantic World |
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j.m.l.den.toonder rug.nl room 1315.0191 |
Assistant Professor; Director Center for Canadian Studies
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Canadian Studies; French and Francophone Contemporary Literature and Culture; Minority and First Nations Literature in Canada |
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e.m.young rug.nl
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PhD student
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Marxist and feminist epistemology, standpoint theory, second wave feminism in the US |
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m.zwiers rug.nl room 1312.0525 |
Assistant Professor
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U.S. History, History of the U.S. South, Political Culture, American Studies, Southern Studies, Regional Identity, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Civil War. |
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Staff
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E-mail
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Title
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info-americanstudies rug.nl room |
Academic Advisor
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Last modified: | 12 February 2025 12.41 p.m. |