Staff

k.u.schmidt rug.nl

room 1315.0304

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

p.illner rug.nl

room 1315.0324

Critical Disaster Studies, Social Movement History, Social Reproduction Theory, Marxist-Feminism

t.jelfs rug.nl

room 1315.0309

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

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

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

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

h.w.nijtmans rug.nl

Rode Weeshuisstraat 12,
room 115

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

jelte.olthof rug.nl

room 1315.0306

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

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

k.s.roberts rug.nl

room 1315.0311

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

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

M.L.Thompson rug.nl

room 1315.0310

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

Canadian Studies; French and Francophone Contemporary Literature and Culture; Minority and First Nations Literature in Canada

Marxist and feminist epistemology, standpoint theory, second wave feminism in the US

m.zwiers rug.nl

room 1312.0525

U.S. History, History of the U.S. South, Political Culture, American Studies, Southern Studies, Regional Identity, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Civil War.

info-americanstudies rug.nl

room