Ida Vos MA

PhD candidate

Area(s) of interest: Colonialism & Postcolonialism, Digital Humanities, Gender

Cohort/Start PhD: 2023-2024

Race and gender in colonial newspapers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Overarching project: Popular Culture in Historical Perspective

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Supervisors: Natália da Silva Perez, Gijsbert Oonk, Isabel Awad Cherit

I am studying representations of race and gender in colonial newspapers in the Dutch, English, and Spanish empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Colonial newspapers in two centuries and three empires of course constitute an enormous amount of material. As such, digital methods play an important role in my research.