Please note that the list is preliminary. Not all members have (yet) acknowledged their commitment to this network.

Utrecht University (UU) | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

• Linu Danielkutty. PhD on Colonial Footprint
• Brian Dermody. Complex systems, sustainable food.
• Kees Klein Goldewijk. HYDE historical land use reconstructions
• Sietze Norder. Ecological Legacies of Colonial Expansion

UU | Economic and Social History group

• Vigyan Ratnoo. Economic historian with broad interests in long run development, globalisation and colonialism. Ongoing research analyses long run patterns of deforestation in Asia as well as historical processes of forest colonisation in South Asia.
• Jan Luiten van Zanden (retired) – Faculty professor with research focus: global issues for the global economy, long-term evolution of biodiversity.

UU | Library

• Marco van Egmond. Historical map collection.

UU | Digital Humanities

• contact: ?

Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

• Pim de Zwart. VIDI project: Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities, and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850.

Radboud University Nijmegen (RU)

• Jan Kok (Sri Lanka, Thombos). Exploring 18th century population and land registers of colonial Ceylon.
• Luc Bulten (Sri Lanka, Indonesia). Luc is a social historian broadly interested in the encounter between European expansionism and Asian societies in early modern South and Southeast Asia, and the impact of this encounter on social and natural environments – particularly in Sri Lanka.

Huygens Institute |Amsterdam

• Lodewijk Petram. Project manager of GLOBALISE; A project committed to enhancing the accessibility and research potential of the UNESCO Memory of the World-listed Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives, led by the Huygens Institute, International Institute of Social History and its partners.
• Matthias van Rossum (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL, also). Global Labour History, History of Slavery, History of Colonialism, Resistance, Dutch East India Company, Colonial Archives, Social History.
• Manjusha Kuruppath. Early Modern Global History, Cultural History using VOC archives, currently researching the history of disease.
• Melinda Susanto. VOC primary source material.

Leiden University (LEI)

• Library Leiden, (online) VOC archive, old maps collection
• Contact: Martijn Storms

University of Amsterdam (UvA)

• Margriet Hoogvliet, Reinder Storm. Library, historical map collection
• Leon van Wissen. Data engineer in GLOBALISE project.

Dutch National Archives

• Contact: Gijs Boink

TU Eindhoven | Group Technology, Innovation & Society

• (STONEM) Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation, 1900-2020: How did modern science-based commodification of natural resources contribute to the emergence of industrial global resource supply chains, and what sustainability trade-offs did this process generate between the Netherlands and Global South regions?
  • STONEM @ TU Eindhoven: Frank Veraart, Assistant Professor History of Technology (Coordinator); Dulce van Vliet (Postdoc); Maliene Kip (PhD).
  • STONEM @ Utrecht University: Bram Bouwens, Business History and History of Globalization; Maite Van den Borre (PhD).

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

• Maarten Bosker. Economist. International Trade.