Dr J.H.H. van den Berk (Jorrit)

Assistant professor - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Assistant professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Contact

jorrit.vandenberk@ru.nl
024-3612840

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Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Jorrit teaches courses on the history and politics of the United States as well as on its international relations. His research focuses on the history of trans-Atlantic relations with an emphasis on public diplomacy and the connections between diplomacy and society. His current projects involve the role of identity, memory, and race in international relations.

Research group

Cultures of War and Liberation

Tags: United States, trans-Atlantic relations, Public Diplomacy, Diplomacy, Politics, History

Publications

Key publications

Visser-Maessen, L.G.M. & Berk, J.H.H. van den (2024). Oppressive Even As It Inspires: Approaching Black American Centrality in the Age of the Black European Renaissance. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. doi: 10.1017/S1742058X2400002X Full text
Berk, J.H.H. van den (2021). The Intermediary is the Message. US Public Diplomacy and the Marshall Plan Productivity Drive in the Netherlands, 1948–52. Journal of Contemporary History, 56 (2), 411-433. doi: 10.1177/0022009420940027 Full text
Berk, J.H.H. van den & Visser-Maessen, L.G.M. (2019). Race Matters: 1968 as Living History in the Black Freedom Struggle. European Journal of American Studies, 14 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.4000/ejas.14233 Full text
Mehring, F. & Berk, J.H.H. van den (2019). Forging the American Century. World War II and the Transformation of US Internationalism. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 2019 (7), 1038-1048. doi: 10.18352/hcm.597 Full text
Berk, J.H.H. van den (2018). The Promise of Democracy for the Americas. U.S. Diplomacy and the Meaning(s) of World War II in El Salvador, 1941-1945. In H. Bak, F. Mehring & M. Roza (Eds.), Politics and Cultures of Liberation. Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy (Radboud Studies in Humanities, 7) (pp. 241-264). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004292017_013 Full text
Berk, J.H.H. van den (2018). The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, 1930-1952. Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators. New York: Palgrave MacMillan doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69986-8
Berk, J.H.H. van den (2016). ‘We Should not Content Ourselves with a Sham’: The US Foreign Service and the Central American Elections of the Early 1930s. Journal of Latin American Studies, 48 (2), 221-246. doi: 10.1017/S0022216X15001522 Full text

Dr J.H.H. van den Berk (Jorrit)

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