C. (Clemens) Six, Prof

Projects I currently work on:

• Durganand Sinha and the role of psychology in Indian (rural) development planning, c. 1950s and 1960s.
• FAO in India and British-Malaya, 1947-1960.
• Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia as a "structuring event".
• Writing history in light of the apocalypse: Hiroshima & the climate crisis.
• Transnational history of secularism in Asia since 1945.

PhD supervision (ongoing)

Arman Eslambolchi (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “The Left, women, and the media around the Iranian Revolution in 1979” (working title) (daily supervisors: Donya Ahmadi & Willem Figueroa, IBIO)

Anjar Dwi Astuti (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “(Re)Construction of Dutch Colonial History through Indonesian Literary, Educational and Visual Narratives” (daily supervisors: Mayada Madbouly, Middle Eastern Studies; Shanade Barnabas, Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology)

Puck de Boer (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “Trials of Honour: Violence, masculinity and emotions in the modern Italian military (1861-1919)” (daily supervisor: Francesco Buscemi & Rachel McElroy-White, History)

Alle Dorhout (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “Nederlands Afrikabeleid 1953-1990, ‘from profits to principles’” (co-promotor: Michel R. Doortmont, IRIO)

Sagnik Bhattacharya (Department of History, University of Bern, Switzerland), “How Subalterns Speak: Indigeneity and the Global History of the Adivasis of Eastern India (1930s-1990s)” (first supervisor: Prof. Christof Dejung, University of Bern)

Mariska van der Velde (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “Low Saxon heritage in the Netherlands: exploring the relationship between intangible rural heritage, identity, power and belonging” (daily supervisor: Maarten Zwiers, History)

Thao Nghiem (Faculty of Arts & Faculty of Religion, University of Groningen, the Netherlands), “Navigating Superstition, Science, and (Non-)Belief: Religious Engineering and Dynamics of Secularism in Contemporary Vietnam, 1945-2005” (promotors: Prof. Todd Weir & Prof. Erin Wilson, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies)

Baltazar Acebedo Jr. (inter-faculty PhD project, Faculty of Arts & Faculty of Religion, Culture & Society, University of Groningen, the Netherlands): “The Appeal of Filipino Catholics to the Vatican for ‘Asianization’ of the Philippine Catholic Church: Their Struggle During the Decolonization Movements from 1945 to 1999” (co-promotor: Prof. Todd Weir, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies)

Dithi Mukherjee (external PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands): “Natural Disasters and the Evolution of Environmental Perceptions in Bengal (India), c. 1818-1878” (daily supervisor: Anjana Singh, History)

Edgar Manuel Baltazar (Sandwich PhD project, RUG Faculty of Arts & UNAM, Mexico), “Social Representations of the Guelaguetza: Processes of Community Empowerment and Folklorization among the Mexican Community of Poughkeepsie, New York” (daily supervisor: Anne M. Martínez, American Studies)

Arnab Dutta (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands): “In Search for an Alternative Europe: Germanism and Continental Europe in the Bengali Imagination, 1919-1945” (co-promotor: Prof. Dirk Jan Wolffram, History)

Marc Engelen (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, & University of Bayreuth, Germany): “The Advent of Christianity in Rwanda: A Transculturation Case Study” (co-promotor: Prof. Raingard Esser, History)