Maud Rijks is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, specializing in Transatlantic Environmental History as part of the project "Re-Scaling Security: Histories and Practices of Trans-local Cooperation." Under the supervision of Dario Fazzi, she is investigating anti-toxics movements of the late twentieth century through a trans-local lens, focusing particularly on the international environmental organization Greenpeace's involvement in the Great Lakes region in the 1980s. By examining campaigns wherein anti-toxics groups employed strategies ranging from citizen science to direct actions, her project pinpoints an important historical moment when environmental health networks across communities and organizations proliferated across the globe.

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Fields of interest

• Environmental History
• North American History
• History of Social Movements

Selected publications

Maud Rijks, "Narrativism, critical fabulation, and the ethics of history writing," Leidschrift 39, no. 3 (2024), 87-101

Maud Rijks, "Young Ambassadors or Agents of Empire? Military Children in the Cold War MENA Region," Netherlands American Studies Review no. 2 (2023), 3-14