Conference “Authority and Trust: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” The DFG-funded research training group “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics” is hosting an international conference aimed at junior researchers that will explore the emergence and transformation of…
TRAHA 2019 Travel Report
“North Dakota? Why there? This is the question I often got when telling friends and family about spending part of my summer in Medora, North Dakota. And I can’t blame them. Little did I know about this beautiful state in…
Coming soon…
This is where you’ll soon be able to read some of the best work our students have to offer, so keep a close watch on our social media to be the first to read the work (@NASAstudies on FB and…
Twenty-fifth National Amerikanistendag at Groningen, 2019
On 7 June 2019, the honors of kicking off the Amerikanistendag, or the National American Studies Day went to Tim Jelfs, of the organizing committee, George Blaustein, president of NASA, and Laura Bieger, head of the department of American Studies…
NASA Fellow 2019: Laura op de Beke
Laura op de Beke started as a fellow in January 2019, having pitched a plan to reform the NASA website, and implement a more updated social media strategy. She has a BA in English Language and Culture from Leiden University,…
Rob Kroes Travel Grant 2019: The Winner’s Report
Eva Nivard, MRes student from the University of Amsterdam, is the recipient of the 2019 Rob Kroes Travel Grant. She spent a period of research at the New York Public Library, and at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard university. Here’s…
Aynur Erdogan 2018
In November 2018, Groningen University PhD candidate, Aynur Erdogan successfully defended her thesis titled The American Kaleidoscope of the Orient: Representations in Early American Print Culture. In it, Erdogan combines a number of studies on early American culture, European as well…
Amerikanistendag 2019 in Groningen Program
This year the annual NASA Student Conference will be held on Friday 7 June 2019 at the University of Groningen. The Amerikanistendag is an annual student conference organized by the Netherlands American Studies Association. The conference serves as a forum for students…
Conference report: The Future of American Studies in the Netherlands
On December 14, 2018, Americanists and non-Americanists gathered in Amsterdam for a special symposium on the Future of American Studies in the Netherlands. The full program can be found here. There were valuable contributions from across the generations, as it…
New NASA publications: American Evangelical Missions to Europe in the 20th Century
2019 will see the publication of Return to Sender: American Evangelical Missions to Europe in the 20th Century (vol. 63 in Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft). Based on a conference held at the RIAS in 2015, this collection of studies by…