UNC Press is pleased to announce the publication of Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South by Viola Franziska Müller. Müller is a social historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the…
Call for Papers! Netherlands American Studies Review Fall 2022
The Netherlands American Studies Review is looking for submissions for the Fall 2022 issue! The NASR is the student journal of the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA). First published in the Spring of 2020, the Netherlands American Studies Review aims…
Lecture by Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 Project
On 13 October 2022 the RIAS and Kennisplatform Slavernijverleden Zeeland will organize a lecture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project in Middelburg. Nikole Hannah-Jones will discuss the origins of American slavery, as well as The 1619 Project that…
New Editor-in-Chief Netherlands American Studies Review (NASR)
Christine Mertens succeeds Debby Esmeé de Vlugt as Editor-in-Chief of the Netherlands American Studies Review (NASR). “I am honored and delighted to join the Netherlands American Studies Review’s editorial committee. As the new Editor-in-Chief, I look forward to working together…
Vacature RIAS communicatiemedewerker (0,4fte)
Het Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) is een onderzoeksinstituut dat gespecialiseerd is in moderne Amerikaanse geschiedenis en trans-Atlantische relaties. Het RIAS heeft wereldwijd een uitstekende reputatie onder wetenschappers. Het RIAS wil haar naamsbekendheid en haar bereik ook bij het bredere publiek…
Call for Papers – PhD Seminar 7-9 December 2022
Since 2003, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies has organized regular seminars for doctoral students pursuing research in its areas of interest. The next seminar will take place in Middelburg on 7-9 December 2022. We kindly invite applications from current doctoral…
We would like to share the statement on Ukraine by the European Association of American Studies
We would like to share the statement on Ukraine by the European Association of American Studies: https://www.eaas.eu/?view=article&id=755:eaas-statement-on-ukraine&catid=10008
Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen 2023 Geschiedenis
De inschrijftermijn voor de Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen 2023 is geopend! De deadline voor het indienden van nominaties is 7 oktober 2022 en zijn bedoeld voor (voormalige) studenten van wie de masterscriptie is goedgekeurd in het academisch jaar 2021/2022. Studenten kunnen…
Netherlands American Studies Review Spring 2022 edition
The Editorial Committee of the Netherlands American Studies Review is happy to announce that the Spring 2022 edition is online now and can be found here. We hope you enjoy this collection of excellent student papers!
New Book Publication
The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (1886–1953) (Trans)National Approaches to His Work Edited by Frank Mehring In a first, this anthology presents essays by art historians and cultural scientists from both sides of the Atlantic to rediscover, analyze and contextualize…