Professor of American Studies, University of Amsterdam.
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, the Canadian Journal of American Studies, the Revue francaise d'etudes americaines, and general editor of the series European Contributions to American Studies, published in Amsterdam.

Immediate past president of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), 1992-1996.

Recent publications:

If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall - Europeans and American Mass Culture, ( U.of Illinois Press, 1996)
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s96/kroes.html
Citizens All? Political Affiliations and Cultural Affinities in North-America and Europe (1999, forthcoming)
Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe (co-edited with R.W Rydell) Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1993
American Empire and Cultural Imperialism. Journal of Diplomatic History, Summer 1999 (forthcoming)
American Culture and the European Sense of History, Journal of American History, Fall 1999 (forthcoming)
Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World. 2000 http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/kroes.html