Carl J. Strikwerda

Carl J. Strikwerda
Born	1952 Grand Rapids, Michigan
Alma mater	University of Michigan, PhD, History University of Chicago, Masters, History Calvin College, History
Occupation	President of Elizabethtown College
Predecessor	Theodore E. Long

Carl J. Strikwerda (born 1952) is an American historian, and president of Elizabethtown College.

He is the former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has also previously worked at the University of Kansas. On October 1, 2011, Strikwerda was inaugurated as Elizabethtown College's fourteenth president.

Selected publications

• C. J. Strikwerda, Urban structures, religion language : Belgian workers 1880-1914. Michigan, unpublished PhD thesis, 1983.
• Strikwerda, Carl. A house divided: Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish nationalists in nineteenth-century Belgium. Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
• Furlough, Ellen, and Carl Strikwerda, eds. Consumers against capitalism?: consumer cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Articles, a selection:

• Strikwerda, Carl. "The troubled origins of European economic integration: international iron and steel and labor migration in the era of World War I." The American Historical Review (1993): 1106-1129.
• Strikwerda, Carl. "Reinterpreting the history of European integration: business, labor, and social citizenship in twentieth-century Europe." European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective (1850): 51-70.

External links

• Elizabethtown College – Office of the President