Cornelis A. van Minnen
His main research interests are U.S. diplomatic history, European-American relations, history and culture of the modern U.S. South. His biography of the Dutch-American historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was published in both Dutch and English editions.
BIO C.A. van Minnen
Current position
- Director of the Roosevelt Study Center (RSC) in Middelburg, The Netherlands (1984-present)
- Guest Professor of American History at Ghent University, Belgium (2001-present)
Research interests
- U.S.-Dutch relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially diplomatic relations, immigration, and cultural history of the U.S.
- History and culture of the modern U.S. South
Education
- Doctorate in history, University of Leiden (1991)
- Teaching certificate in history, University of Nijmegen (1984)
- Masters degree in history, University of Nijmegen (1983)
- Certificate Teachers Training College Moller Instituut, Tilburg in history and Dutch literature and linguistics (1980)
- Atheneum diploma, Zeldenrust College, Terneuzen (1975)
Awards and honors
- Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (2010)
- Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Programs (2000, 2004, and 2011)
- Fulbright Research Grant and affiliation with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC (1983)
- Honors award of the French Embassy in the Netherlands for obtained results in French literature and linguistics (1975)
Professional affiliations
- Member of the Netherlands American Studies Association since 1982 (served on the board from 1988 to 2008, served as treasurer 2005-2008)
- Member of the European Association for American Studies (served as chair of the Historians’ Shoptalk meetings at the EAAS conferences from 1994 through 2006 and as editor of EJAS 2006-2011)
- Founding member of the American Studies Network in Europe since 1990 (served as vice president 1998-2000, and president 2000-2002; served as chair of the jury of the American Studies Network Book Prize 2004; served as treasurer 2004-2013)
- Member of the Southern Studies Forum since 2005 (served as co-organizer of the 2005 SSF conference “Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South” which was held at the Roosevelt Study Center)
- Member of the Transatlantic Studies Association since 2008
- Member of the Southern Historical Association since 2012
- Advisory Board member of the Center for New Deal Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, since 1996
- Advisory Board member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, Oyster Bay, New York, since 2004
- Advisory Board member of the Foundation International Congress of Historical Sciences 2010, Amsterdam
Editor of
- The Roosevelt Review (the annual newsletter of the Roosevelt Study Center), 1989-2010)
- European Journal of American Studies (EJAS), the official peer-reviewed journal of the European Association for American Studies, 2006-2011
Co-supervisor of Ph.D. theses
- Usha Wilbers, “Enterprise in the Service of Art: A Critical History of The Paris Review, 1953-1973” (Ph.D. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2006)
- Elke van Cassel, “A Cold War Magazine of Causes: A Critical History of The Reporter, 1949-1968” (Ph.D. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2007)
- Kim van der Wijngaart, Bondgenootschap onder spanning. Nederlands-Amerikaanse betrekkingen, 1969-1976 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2011), Ph.D. Universiteit Utrecht, 2011