Ann Marie Wilson is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at Leiden University College. Her research focuses on social movements in transnational perspective, with a particular emphasis on the history of LGBTQ+ organizing in the Netherlands and United States. She received her BA from the University of Michigan’s Residential College, her MA from San Francisco State University, and her PhD from Harvard University.

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Biography

Trained as a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, Ann Marie Wilson has written on women’s political activism in the American West, as well as on the history of international humanitarianism. Since moving to the Netherlands in 2011, she has shifted her research focus to modern Dutch history. Her current work focuses on the way North American social movements travel and translate in a Dutch context, particularly in the domains of feminism, anti-racism, and LGBTQ+ politics.

Ann’s evolving research interests connect closely with her teaching at LUC. Since 2015, the bulk of her teaching has centered on the Community Project, a service-learning course that invites students to study the history and politics of multicultural education in the Netherlands, while working as tutors in a local school serving recent immigrant youth.

Ann was inaugural member of the Leiden Teachers Academy, and since 2018 she has been convenor of LUC’s Minor in Gender Studies.

Fields of Interest

• Modern US and Dutch History
• Women’s and Gender History
• History of Education
• History of Sexuality
• Transnational Social Movements

Courses

• Community Project: Multicultural Education in The Hague
• Racism in Historical Perspective
• Historical Methods: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism since the 1960s
• Research Clinic: LGBTQ+ Activism in Transnational Perspective