Marcella Schute
PhD candidate
- Name
- M.C.R. Schute
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1646
- m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Marcella Schute (1996) is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.
Marcella’s PhD project explores the overt and covert efforts by the state of Louisiana to reopen the transatlantic slave trade in the 1850s. Her research project forms part of the larger project “Racial Democracy: Challenges to Civic Democratic Ideals in American History,” sponsored by the Stichting Praesidium Libertatis I and supervised by Prof. dr. Damian Pargas, in conjunction with Leiden University. The project duration is four years, from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024. Marcella completed her MA in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2020 and received her BA Cum Laude in Liberal Arts & Sciences from University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University) in 2019.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
PhD candidate / self funded
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Schute M.C.R. (2023), The first proposal to reopen the transatlantic slave trade in New Orleans in 1839. In: Bulla D.W., Bravo K.E., Onwubiko J.N. & Dimitrova K. (Eds.), Legacies of slavery and contemporary resistance. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Ellethy M. & Schute M.C.R. (29 June 2023), Opinie: 1 juli moet voortaan een nationale feestdag worden voor alle Nederlanders. De Volkskrant, Opinie & Debat: 1.
- Schute M.C.R. (2023), Review of: Negrón. R. & Oudsten J. den (2022), De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam: over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 20(2): 177-179.
- Schute M.C.R. (2023), Turning wounds into wisdom and pain into power: recognizing strategy in enslaved women’s resistance to bodily exploitation in the antebellum US South, LUCAS Graduate Journal 10: 13-31 (1).
- Schute M.C.R. (2022), Review of: Barcia M. (2020), The yellow demon of fever: fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade. New Haven: Yale University Press. American Nineteenth Century History 23(1): 108-109.
- Mertens C.M.M. & Schute M.C.R. (2 March 2021), Opinie: ‘excuses over slavernijverleden kunnen Nederland verrijken’. Het Parool.
- Schute M. (2021) Marie S. Molloy. Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018. x + 228 pp. $39.99, cloth, ISBN 978-1-61117-870-8. . Review of: Marie S. Molloy (2018), Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences .
- Mertens C. & Schute M., Hoe Juneteenth de weg kan wijzen voor Keti Koti. Over de Muur: Over de Muur. [blog entry].