Rob Kroes | Methodology of Trans-Atlantic American Studies

Rob Kroes (Ph.D. in sociology, University of Leiden, 1971) is professor emeritus and former chair of the American Studies program at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught until September 2006. He is Honorary Professor of American Studies at the University of Utrecht and was a past president of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS, 1992-1996). He is the founding editor of two series published in Amsterdam: Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies and European Contributions to American Studies. He is the author, co-author or editor of 37 books. Among his recent publications are: If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen The Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture(1996), Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies(1998), Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World (2000), and Straddling Borders: The American Resonance in Transnational Identities (2004). With Robert W. Rydell, he co-authored a book entitled Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922 (2005). His most recent book is Photographic Memories: Private Pictures, Public Images, and American History (2007).

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