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BA History, 1994
Leuven University, Belgium

Postgraduate in American Studies, 1995
Leuven University & The College of William and Mary

Ph.D. History, 2003
Leuven University, Belgium

Intro to Public History, Gilded Age America, U.S. History, Western Civilization, Workers and Work in Modern America, The Immigrant in American History

Before joining the UVa-Wise history department, Dr. Goyens has been a public historian at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. There he served as project historian for the Douglass Theater Project seeking to make Williamsburg's excavated third colonial playhouse available to the public.

Dr. Goyens is a cultural and social historian of radical, immigrant, and labor history of 19th and early 20th century United States. He is particularly interested in the relationship between social space and radical movements, especially anarchism. Dr. Goyens also explores issues of public history, the cultural significance of collective memory and oral history.

Tom Goyens, Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 (University of Illinois Press, 2007)

Tom Goyens, "Social Space and the Practice of Anarchist History." Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (forthcoming, 2009)

Tom Goyens, “Beer and Revolution: Some Aspects of German Anarchist Culture in New York, 1880-1900,” Social Anarchism: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 32 (2002): 51-9.

Tom Goyens, “Johann Most en de Duitse anarchistische beweging in New York City, 1880-1900,” [Translation: Johann Most and the German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1900] Brood en Rozen: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen / Bread and Roses: Journal for the History of Social Movements, 1 (2002): 39-55.

Tom Goyens, “House of the Devil: Opposition to the Theater in Colonial America,” Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, 24:1 (Spring 2003): 8-16.

Tom Goyens, “Lewis Hallam: An English Actor in America,” Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, 22, 3 (Fall 2001): 4-9.

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