James Kennedy (historian)

James Kennedy (historian)

James Carleton Kennedy (born 1963 in Orange City, Iowa) is an American historian.

Kennedy grew up in Orange City, a reformed village consisting mainly of descendants of the Netherlands. His mother came also from that country.

He studied foreign service at Georgetown University, obtaining his B.S. in 1986, Christian studies at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, obtaining his M.A. in 1988, and took his PhD in history from the University of Iowa in 1995.

He performed several jobs in the field of history before becoming an assistant professor of European history and research fellow at the A. C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1997.

In 2003 he moved to the Netherlands because he was appointed a professor of modern history (20th century) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2007 he changed to the University of Amsterdam, where he became a professor of the history of the Netherlands. In 2009 he'll succeed professor Piet de Rooy, head of the section of the history of the Netherlands.

Kennedy takes a special interest in post-war Dutch history. Because of his Christian belief he considers himself a Christian historian although he is reserved to point out how God is guiding human history.

Politically, he characterizes himself as an independent. However, in the presidential campaign of 2004 he was in favor of John Kerry, the presidential candidate of the Democrats.

James Kennedy is married to Simone Kennedy-Doornbos (1970), a local Dutch politician for the ChristianUnion in Amersfoort. They have three children. The Kennedy family is a member of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated), an orthodox reformed denomination.

Publications

*"Building new Babylon: cultural change in the Netherlands during the 1960s" (1995, dissertation), translated in Dutch as "Nieuw Babylon in aanbouw: Nederland in de jaren zestig", Amsterdam, Boom, 1995)
*"History of the Low Countries" (New York, Berghahn Books, 1999), adapted translation from the "Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden", Hans Blom and Emiel Lamberts, 1993)
* "Een weloverwogen dood. De opkomst van de euthanasie in Nederland" (Amsterdam, Bakker, 2002) - about the development of euthanasia in the Netherlands

External links

* [http://www.uva.nl/organisatie/object.cfm/53C1ABE3-5172-4844-9BE5AD57C714433A/uid=KDFVXiI0KipLTipUIAo= Prof. dr. J.C. Kennedy] , University of Amsterdam


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