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Marjoleine Kars, a Senior Scholar originally from the Netherlands, specializes in early modern Atlantic history with a focus on resistance, revolution, slavery, and Dutch colonialism. She authored the book 'Breaking Loose Together: Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina,' which explores the role of radical Protestantism in the Regulator Rebellion. Her recent work includes 'Blood River: Chronicle of a Mutiny for Freedom on the Wild Coast,' which examines a significant slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of present-day Guyana. Kars has served as an editor for the 'International Labor and Working-Class History' journal and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post. A recipient of numerous fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Historical Association, she was the Chair of the History Department at UMBC from 2011 to 2018 and has received multiple awards, including the University of Maryland Regents’ Award for Excellence in Research. Kars is currently researching a biography of eighteenth-century African men involved in slavery and resistance within the Dutch Atlantic world.