Gert Oostindie

Gerrit Jan (Gert) Oostindie, former director of KITLV from 2000-2021 and emeritus professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University is a Honorary Fellow at KITLV. He is presently involved in the government-funded research program ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’, two NWO-funded programs, ‘Confronting Caribbean Challenges’ and ‘Traveling Caribbean Heritage’, ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of Rotterdam’ project commissioned by the Rotterdam city council and the research ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of The Hague‘ commissioned by the The Hague city council.

Oostindie studied History and Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (cum laude, 1982), and obtained his PhD at Utrec

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