Debby Esmeé de Vlugt
PhD candidate
- Name
- D.E. de Vlugt MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- d.e.de.vlugt@hum.leidenuniv.nl
I'm an external PhD Candidate in American History at Leiden University. I work at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, where I study the transnational influence of the Black Power movement. I have a master's in US History from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's in Liberal Arts & Sciences from University College Roosevelt / Utrecht University. My current supervisors are Giles Scott-Smith and Damian Pargas
Fields of interest
- North American interconnections
- Transnational activism
- Racism and whiteness
- Identity and intersectionality
- Food History
- 20th century history
Research
My PhD research focuses on the transnational connections between the Black Power movement and Afro-Caribbean protest in the former Netherlands Antilles and Suriname between 1968 and 1975.
CV
2019 - present
Board Member at the Netherlands American Studies Association (Netherlands)
2016 - 2017
Course Representative at Graduate Joint Consultative Committee, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
2016
Intern at Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp (Belgium)
2015 - 2016
Student representative at Board of Studies (UCR)
2015 - 2016
Chair at Academic Affairs Council, University College Roosevelt (Netherlands)
2015
Research Intern at Roosevelt Study Center (Netherlands)
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis