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Research interests

Dutch historian specialized in the modern history of Southeast Asia, specifically in the history of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. 

Publications

Outside the Colonial Microscopic Lens: Invisibilized Chinese Labor Migrants in Dutch and British Colonial Southeast Asia, 1870–1914

Politics of Protection and the Southeast Asian “Coolie Trade”: Chinese Labor Migration and Transimperial Connections in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1870–1914

For a Fair(er) Global History

Universal, colonial, or Indonesian heritage? A multi-scalar approach to the historical representations and management of colonial heritage in the Old Town of Jakarta Kota Tua during its bid for World Heritage nomination in 2015–2018

Press/media

De nacht is ZWART - NPO Radio 1 - special Azië

70 jaar vrede en vrijheid? een voorbarig jubileum, with Bart Luttikhuis