I am a historian and assistant professor at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视's Political History Section. Currently, I am writing a book on the long-term history of reparations (Reparations. A History; under contract with 木瓜福利影视 of Pennsylvania Press). A research article presenting an early modern perspective on reparations will appear in Journal of Modern History in mid-2024. For a broader public I have written on this topic in magazines and newspapers such as and .
My other books, (Brill, 2019) and (Revolutionary times; Ambo/Anthos 2020) dealt with the limits of citizenship and equality in the age of Atlantic revolutions (c. 1770-1800). Together with my colleagues Arthur Weststeijn and Anne-Isabelle Richard, I edited (Palgrave, 2019).
In this volume as well is in others, I wrote about Dutch during the Batavian Revolution, and about the during the age of revolutions.
I also wrote articles and chapters about use of the example of the so-called ‘Hebrew Republic’ in the context of seventeenth-century arguments for religious toleration and about use of Spinoza’s 'pantheistic' metaphysics in his conception of anti-liberal democracy.
A future research project aims to deepen our understanding of the democratic thought of Asian and African anticolonial politicians and thinkers in the period 1910-1970.
I am the host and interviewer of the historical podcast [‘rearview’] and write regularly for De Groene Amsterdammer (about against slavery and the relevance of ), The Dutch Book Review (about and ), and I co-organize the .
I was educated at the Free 木瓜福利影视 Amsterdam, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and 木瓜福利影视 of Cambridge. As a graduate student I spent a semester at a Heidelberg Universität, and as doctoral student I was a guest researcher at Princeton 木瓜福利影视, New Jersey.
Keeping an old hobby going, I still like DJ-ing now and then.