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Marcella Schute is a historian specializing in American history, particularly in Atlantic slavery and political history. She obtained her PhD with the dissertation titled 'Securing Future Black Labor: Covert Attempts to Reopen the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Louisiana, 1853-1861' from Leiden University in 2025, supervised by Professor Damian Pargas. Her research delves into the motivations and strategies of the Louisiana elite to reopen the transatlantic slave trade during the 1850s. During her PhD trajectory, she contributed to the volume 'Legacies of Slavery & Contemporary Resistance' in 2023 and has forthcoming articles in peer-reviewed journals such as 'Louisiana History' and 'Slavery & Abolition'. As a PhD candidate at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies from 2021 to 2024, she participated in organizing conferences and seminars. She is also a board member of the Netherlands American Studies Association, appointed in 2024, and will become a general board member in 2025. Marcella completed her BA cum laude in Liberal Arts & Sciences at University College Roosevelt in 2019 and obtained her MA in American Studies from the University of Amsterdam in 2020, with a revised version of her MA thesis published in the LUCAS Graduate Journal in 2023.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication • Rotterdam
Lecturer in the Department of History, teaching courses related to American history.
Department of Econometrics / MSc Econometrics and Management Science.