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

UU | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

• Linu Danielkutty. PhD on Colonial Footprint
• Brian Dermody. Complex systems
• Kees Klein Goldewijk. HYDE historical land use reconstructions
• Ralph Temmink. Indonesia project ?
• Sietze Norder. Ecological Legacies of Colonial Expansion

UU | ESEH

• Vigyan Ratnoo. Economic historian with broad interests in long run development, globalization and colonialism. Research focusses on the role and interplay of geography and institutions in the long run development of India.
• JanLuiten van Zanden (retired) – Economic historian, Indonesia.

UU | Library

• Marco van Egmond. Historical map collection.

UU | Digital Humanities

• contact: ?

WUR Wageningen

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

RUG Nijmegen

• Jan Kok (Sri Lanka, Thombos). Exploring 18th century population and land registers of colonial Ceylon.
• Luc Bulten (Sri Lanka, Indonesia). Lives, land, and labour in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka as revealed by the Dutch-colonial land and population registers called the “thombos”. Additionally, postdoctoral fellow in Sri Lankan history at the University of Cambridge. On the side, he is working on material collected from the VOC archives in Melaka (held by the British Library), and the intra-Asian business and trade networks revealed by these records.

Leiden University

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

UvA Amsterdam | Library

• Margriet Hoogvliet, Reinder Storm. Library, historical map collection

UvA Amsterdam

• Leon van Wissen. Data engineer in 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.

Huygens Institute |Amsterdam

• Lodewijk Petram. Project manager of GLOBALISE.
• Manjusha Kuruppath, Melinda Susanto. VOC primary source material.

National Archives

• Contact: Gijs Boink

Tue Eindhoven

• Dulce van Vliet, Prof. Frank Veraart, Maliene Kip. STONEM project. Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernization. Trade, land use, etc in Indonesia

EUR Rotterdam

• Maarten Bosker. Economist. International Trade.