The Dutch Colonial Environmental History Network

About us

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Voluntary planning group DCEHN

  • Angelo Galindo – PhD Candidate, Wageningen University
  • Brian Dermody – Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
  • Dulce van Vliet – Postdoctoral Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Katia Tseliou – PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
  • Kees Klein Goldewijk – Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
  • Linu Danielkutty – PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
  • Luc Bulten – Assistant Professor, Radboud University (and Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge)
  • Maliene Kip – Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Pim de Zwart – Associate Professor, Wageningen University
  • Roberta Biasillo – Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
  • Roel Frakking – Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
  • Thomas Smits – Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam

Other members:

  • Stefan Dekker – Ecohydrology (also at NIOO-KNAW)
  • Eddie Meijier – external PhD and guest researcher, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
  • Emmanuel Adu-Ampong – Assistant Professor, Wageningen University
  • Bastiaan van Dalen – PhD Candidate, University of Oxford / Solutions Engineer, Esri Nederland
  • Lodewijk Petram – Senior Researcher, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
  • Gabriela Spakman – Analytics consultant, ESRI Netherlands
  • Frank Veraart – Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

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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

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Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

  • Pim de Zwart. VIDI project: Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities, and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850.
  • Angelo Galindo, Dea Iftina (PhD’s)

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).
  • 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)

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

University of Amsterdam (UvA)

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

Dutch National Archives (The Hague)

  • Gijs Boink. Senior Collections Manager.

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.

University of Oxford, School of Archaeology (UK)

  • Bastiaan van Dalen. Archaeology of sustainability; Deep-time sustainability dynamics; Sustainability science; Human ecodynamics; Historical ecology; Tropical forest archaeology; Island archaeology; Understudied biodiversity hotspots; São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea); Quantitative analysis (R & GIS); Applied archaeology.

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