Dr. Kirsten Kamphuis

Current affiliations

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Colonial History of Indonesia and Southeast Asia
Women's movements and anticolonialism, with a focus on Indonesia in the 20th century
Gender- and women's history, feminist theory and intersectional approaches to history writing
Girls' education in a transnational context, 19th-20th centuries

Academic Education
2015 - 2019	PhD History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence
2013 - 2015	ResMA Global and Colonial History, Leiden University
2009 - 2013	BA History, University of Groningen
Functions and Memberships
since 2021	Editorial Board Member Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis / Dutch Yearbook for Women's History
04/2024 - 05/2024	Visiting researcher, West University of Timișoara
08/2022 - 09/2022	Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asian Program, Cornell University
02/2018 - 08/2018	Affiliated Fellow, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)

Publications

Sisters at sea: Travel experiences of missionary sisters to the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Brand, Ron; Kamphuis, Kirsten (2024) In: International Journal of Maritime History, 36(2). Research article (journal)
Gender and Animals in History Swart, Sandra; Kamphuis, Kirsten; et. al. (eds.) (2024) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press . Book (edited collection)
Pahésan Magazine and the Modern Girl in Colonial Indonesia. An Interview with Kirsten Kamphuis Kamphuis, Kirsten (2024) Web publication (blog article)
Saving the children: humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire, by Emily Baughan Kamphuis, Kirsten (2023) In: History of Education, 2023(52). Review (journal)
Ook in de koloniën sloofden kinderen voor de kerk Kamphuis, Kirsten (2023) In: Trouw, 80. Non-scientific contribution (journal)

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Projects

EXC 2060 A3-25 - Women, Public Life and Religion in (Post)Colonial Indonesia, c. 1920-1960

Duration: 01/11/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Talks

Postcolonial solidarity? Dialogues between Dutch and Indonesian women’s movements (1960s-1970s) Kamphuis, Kirsten (29/07/2024) International Convention of Asia Scholars, Universitas Airlangga Type of talk: scientific talk
Discourses of Development and Women’s Roles in Indonesian Women’s Magazines, 1920s-1960s Kamphuis, Kirsten (05/07/2024) Voluntariness, women and development in late colonial and postcolonial societies, Erfurt University Type of talk: scientific talk
Anticolonialism in Print. How Indonesian Activists Communicated, c.1920s-1940s Kamphuis, Kirsten (19/04/2024) International Graduate Conference in Communication , West University of Timișoara Type of talk: scientific talk
The Modern Woman on the Page. Questions of Religion and Gender in Indonesian Women’s Magazines (c.1930-1960) Kamphuis, Kirsten (29/06/2022) EuroSEAS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Type of talk: scientific talk
Beyond ‘Pahlawan Perempuan’: Indonesian Colonial History from a Gender Perspective Kamphuis, Kirsten (10/06/2022) Online guest lecture, Universitas Nasional Yogyakarta Type of talk: scientific talk