Netherlands American Studies Association

PhD Defenses

Shu-Chien Chen 2022

Shu-Chien Chen successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled Towards a Neutral Formulary Apportionment System in Regional Integration on 15 September 2022. The PhD defence ceremony was online streamed so audiences from abroad also watched the live recording. The dissertation is…

Lisanne Walma 2020

On January 6th Lisanne Walma successfully defended her dissertation: Between Morpheus and Mary: The Public Debate on Morphine in Dutch Newspapers, 1880-1939 at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht. Her dissertation focused on the development of the Dutch public debate on morphine…

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…