As of September 1st the Institute welcomes three new senior researchers:
Bas van Leeuwen
Bas van Leeuwen studied Dutch Law, European Law, Economic History and Russian History at Utrecht University. His PhD research, done at the IISH, resulted in the dissertation ‘Human Capital and Economic Growth in India, Indonesia and Japan 1890-2000.
After his PhD van Leeuwen worked in post-doc positions at Warwick University on the British and Dutch historical national accounts, and at the VU University Amsterdam on Babylonian economic history. In 2009 he was granted a Veni for his project on human capital in East and South Europe in the twentieth century, at Utrecht University. Over the past years his work has focused more on historical data collection resulting in the establishement of a book series on historical statistics in China and his work as coordinator for the Clio Infra project.
Since September 1st van Leeuwen has been appointed as senior researcher at the IISH and as project manager of the ERC-project on regional and industrial developments in the 19th and 20th century in China and North West Europe.
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva studied History at the NOVA University, Lisbon and obtained her PhD at Leiden University in 2009. Thesis title:The Dutch and the Portuguese in West Africa: Empire Building and Atlantic System, 1580-1674.
Between 2009 and 2012 she worked as a post-doc researcher at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at Hull University (UK) and at the IISH in Amsterdam.
At the IISH she worked on the Clio-Infra Project and the Global Collaboratory for the History of Labour Relations.
Ribeiro da Silva accepted a position as senior research at the University of Macau in 2009. She has started working on September 1st 2015 as senior researcher at the IISH. Ribeiro da Silva specializes in Social and Economic History and with a focus on Portuguese and Dutch overseas history and interactions with Atlantic Africa
Matthias van Rossum
Matthias van Rossum studied Social and Economic History at the Free University, Amsterdam (cum laude). His thesis Werkers van de wereld. Globalisering, maritieme arbeidsmarkten en de verhouding tussen Aziaten en Europeanen in dienst van de VOC, carried out at IISH and VU, appeared in 2014.
Van Rossum worked as a lecturer in early modern social history at Leiden University. He was also project leader of the Dutch Ships and Sailors project (Huygens ING, VU). From early 2014 he worked as a post-doc researcher at the IISH. In the project Four Centuries of Labour Camps he did research on forced labour in the Dutch Indies during the period 1700-1942.
In 2015 van Rossum was granted a Veni for a research project on Slavery in South and South East Asia (1600-1800). This project will be housed in the IISH where van Rossum has been appointed a senior researcher since September 1st.