Krabbendam, Hans. Papers, 1989-2003.

Hans Krabbendam (Ph.D., University of Leiden) is assistant director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the author of Model Man: A Life of Edward W. Bok, 1863-1930 (2001), as well as many edited books on European (Dutch)-American relations. He is a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies. His collection includes his master’s thesis “Serving the Dutch Community: A Comparison of the Patterns of Americanization in the Lives of Two Immigrant Pastors,” 1989; the inaugural lecture of the Visiting Research Fellows Program, Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, “Dutch-American Identity Politics: The Use of History by Dutch Immigrants” and “Forgotten Found Father: Cornelius VanderMeulen as Immigrant Leader,” which appeared in the Journal for the History of Dutch Missions and Overseas Churches, Vol. 5, No. 2., (1998).