prof. dr. Guno Jones

Dr. Guno Jones is professor of the Anton de Kom Chair in the History of Colonialism and Slavery and their contemporary Social, Cultural and Legal Impact. His research is interdisciplinary in nature. Currently, he is involved, as projectleader, in an interfaculty VU research project on the legal history of Dutch slavery (Juridische Slavernijgeschiedenis). He also participates in a KITLV research project on the role of the royal Dutch family in colonial history (Het Huis van Oranje-Nassau en de koloniale geschiedenis). Previously, he (mainly) held research positions at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He lectured at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities), University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Humanities) and the Institute for Graduate Studies and Research at the Anton de Kom University (Paramaribo) . His main research interests are on political discourses on citizenship, post-colonial migration and the nation in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK; the politics of  World War II heritage in the Netherlands and its former colonies; the politics of the heritage of colonialism and slavery in the Netherlands;  the construction and politics of 'mixedness' during colonialism, in the Netherlands and in the EU (EUROMIX - recently finished). He published on these subjects in various publications; As a lecturer, he taught (among others things) on the research subjects mentioned, as well as on historical research methods and qualitative (social science) research methods & ethics.