Robert P. Swierenga  abbreviated cv

Albertus C. Van Raalte Research Professor, A.C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1996-
Professor of History Emeritus, Kent State University, 1996-

Degrees: B.A. Calvin College, 1957; M.A. Northwestern University, 1958; Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1965

Knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, May 2000
Distinguished Alumnus, Calvin College, May 2003
Fulbright Fellow, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1976, 1985
Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1981

Teaching Career:
Research Professor, A.C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, 1996-
Professor, Kent State University, 1968-1996
Assistant Professor, Calvin College, 1961-1962, 1965-1968

Selected book publications:

Old Wing Mission: Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George N. and Arvilla Smith in their Work with Chief Wakazoo's Ottawa Band on the West Michigan Frontier (Eerdmans 2008)

Dutch Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective. Co-editors Jack Nyenhuis and Nella Kennedy (Van Raalte Press, Holland, 2008)

Dutch Immigrants on the Plains. Co-editors Paul Fessler adn Hubert R. Krygsman (Joint Archives of Holland, 2006)

Elim: A Chicago Christian School and Life Training Center for the Disabled (Eerdmans 2005)

Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier, by Johan Stellingwerff (Eerdmans 2004)

The Dutch in Urban America. Co-editors Donald Sinnema and Hans Krabbendam (Joint Archives of Holland, 2004)

Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City (Eerdmans 2002)

Faith and Family: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States, 1820-1920 (Holmes & Meier, 2000)

editor, For Food and Faith: Dutch Immigration to Western Michigan. Editor (Holland (MI) Museum, 2000)

Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century. Co-author Elton Bruins (Eerdmans, 1999)

The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora (Wayne State University Press, 1994)

Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History. Co-editor with Philip VanderMeer (Rutgers University Press, 1991)

Jacob van Hinte, Netherlanders in America. Editor (Baker, 1985)

The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change. Editor (Rutgers University Press, 1985)

History and Ecology: James C. Malin's Studies of the Grassland. Editor (University of Nebraska Press, 1984)

A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982. Co-editor J.W. Scholte Nordholt (Octagon, 1982)

Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa (Greenwood, 1976)

Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays of the Civil War Era. Editor (Greenwood, 1975)

Quantification in American History: Theory and Research. Editor (Atheneum, 1970)

Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier (Iowa State University Press, 1968)

Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests, 1820-1880: An Alphabetical Listing by Family Heads and Independent Persons, 2 vols. Compiler (Scholarly Resources, 1987)

Dutch Households in U.S. Population Censuses, 1850, 1860, 1870: An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons, 3 vols. Compiler (Scholarly Resources, 1987)

Dutch Emigrants to the United States, South Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, 1835-1880: An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons. Compiler (Scholarly Resources, 1983

Revised 11/08