Research
I am a PhD candidate researching the colonisation of land in 17th-century Indonesia by the Dutch East India Company. Specifically, I am looking at (violent transformations in) social and political institutions, landownership, labour relations, resistance, and ecology on the Banda Islands and West Java. Other and broader research interests include the history of capitalist expansion and its ecological, racial, and gendered dimensions; historical archaeology of capitalism and colonialism; and colonial heritage.