Jaap Verheul

Biography

Dr. Jaap Verheul is associate professor of cultural history. He teaches cultural and transnational history, and coordinates the MA program in Cultural History and the minor in Transatlantic Studies. He was Fulbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at UCLA and other American universities. He has published on American, Dutch and transatlantic cultural history. He edited Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Apocalypse: Utopia and Dystopia in American Culture (2004) and co-edited American Multiculturalism After 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. (2009) and Discovering the Dutch: On Culture and Society of the Netherlands (2010). His latest book is De Atlantische Pelgrim: John Lothrop Motley en de Amerikaanse ontdekking van Nederland [The Atlantic Pilgrim: John Lothrop Motley and the American Discovery of the Netherlands] (Boom, 2017).

Research Interest

Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights