I am a historian of early modern colonial history and the history of news My research deals with the intersection of both fields focusing on colonial news in the periodical press, colonial citizenship, and the development of various discourses of slavery in early modern Europe. My current book project, based on my dissertation and provisionally entitled Atlantic Adivces: Representing the Americas in the Dutch Periodical Press, explores how the periodical press consistently covered distant but urgent transatlantic conflicts and developments using the constant flow of communications in the Atlantic world. It reveals how the weekly periodicity of the press brought stories of colonialism and slavery into the lives of European citizens.
Currently developing new projects on discourses of slavery in the early modern period, and transimperial news networks in the Atlantic world