Lectures from Visiting Research Fellows
As part of their time at the Van Raalte Institute, Visiting Research Fellows present their work through a lecture and/or publication of a book or pamphlet.
Download free pamphlets or purchase the books
- 2003: Dutch-American Identity Politics: The Use of History by Dutch Immigrants by Hans Krabbendam
- 2004: The Rain of God: RCA Growth and Decline in Historical Perspective by Lynn Japinga
- 2004: Dutch Entrepreneurship: Spirit or Ideology? by Hans Niemantsverdriet
- 2006: Reassessing 1857: Overlooked Considerations Concerning the Birth of the Christian Reformed Church by James A. De Jong
- 2006: Disease and Death among the Early Settlers in Holland, Michigan by Jan Peter Verhave
- 2007: Growing Up Dutch-American: Cultural Identity and the Formative years of Older Dutch-Americans by Peter Ester
- 2008: The Dutch Equation in the RCA Freemasonry Controversy, 1867-1885 by Harry Boonstra
- 2008: “We live presently under a waning moon” Nicolaus Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895) by George Harinck
- 2008: Preachers, Pews, and Pupils: Commemorating the Past in Twentieth-Century Dutch America by David Zwart
- 2009: The RCA Mission to Chiapas, 1925-2000 by Elizabeth Harvey
- 2009: “Pope of the Classis?” The Leadership of Albertus C. Van Raalte in Dutch and American Classes by Leon van den Broke
- 2010: Dutch Americans and the Rise of Heritage Studies by Michael J. Douma
- 2011: Hope: The Legacy of Van Raalte by Rein Nauta
- 2013: Documentary Films of the Netherlands Shown in the United States, 1942-1973: Viewership, Representativeness, and Visual Rhetoric by Henk Aay
- 2015: by Jan Boersema and Henk Aay
- 2015: Hendrik P. Scholte: His Legacy in the Netherlands and in America by Eugene P. Heideman
- 2016: Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Hate: A Love Story (Begins) by Donald A. Luidens (expanded book also available for purchase)
- 2017: A Japanese and a Dutchman in Science: Stories of a Dramatic Disaster by Jan Peter Verhave
- 2018: Making Music: Hope College’s Music Department, A History by Marc Baer and Allison Utting
- 2018: Eleanor Calverley: First Doctor to Kuwait by Paul Heusinkveld
- 2019: Paterson, New Jersey: Dutch Immigration’s Largest Afterthought (1846-1950) by Robert Schoone-Jongen
- 2019: The Pull: Hope College’s Legendary Tug-of-War by Bruce Geelhoed
- 2019: Patriots and Internationalists: Dutch American Religion and Global Consciousness in the Late 19th Century by Andrew Klumpp
- 2020: by Mark Mulder
Watch Lectures Online
- 2022: (Lynn Japinga)
- 2022: (Mark Mulder)
- 2022: (Judy Tanis Paar)
- 2023: (Chad Carlson)
- 2023: The Holland Area’s First Entrepreneurs: Who They Were, What They Did, and Why They Were Successful (Steven VanderVeen)
Interested in becoming a Visiting Research Fellow? You can find more information.
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Several of the lectures by Visiting Research Fellows have been turned into published books through Van Raalte Press.
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