Transatlantic Mediators: Grove Press, Evergreen Review and Postwar European Literature. PhD Defense of 25 January 2016, Radboud University Nijmegen.

“This Is Roosevelt’s World” – FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory PhD defense of 8 December 2015, Leiden University

The Politics of Terror: Enforcing Reconstruction in Louisiana’s Red River Valley. PhD Defense of 23 April 2015, Leiden University.