Saskia Tielens

Mees Tielens, then Saskia Tielens {[email protected]} studied American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the University of California at Berkeley, and theology at the Catholic University Tilburg in the Netherlands. She earned an MA in American Studies in 2010 and is now a PhD candidate at the Ruhrcenter of American Studies in Dortmund, Germany, where she is finishing her dissertation about Mormon cultural memory in a transnational context. Her research interests include religion and American culture, digital culture, memory, and gender. Saskia has been the recipient of a variety of grants and fellowships, including the Eccles Mormon Studies fellowship at the Tanner Humanities Center (University of Utah) in 2013–2014.