I am a Lecturer in the History of International Relations with a background in North American and Caribbean studies. I specialize in the history of Black internationalism in the 20th-century Dutch Atlantic (including Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles), with expertise in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. My current projects also include a study of European solidarity with the American Black Panther Party and an edited volume on anticolonial thought in Suriname.

Before joining Utrecht University, I obtained a BA (summa cum laude) in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Roosevelt, an MSt in History from the University of Oxford, St. Antony's college, and a PhD in History from Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies. My doctoral dissertation A New Feeling of Unity: Decolonial Black Power in the Dutch Atlantic (1968-1973) can be accessed here. In recent years, I have also held a Visiting Fellowship from the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in London and an Affiliated Fellowship at the KITLV in Leiden.

Since 2019, I have been a board member of the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA). In that same year, I founded its student journal, the Netherlands American Studies Review (NASR), of which I was editor-in-chief until 2022. My own work has appeared in the Journal of American Studies, De Moderne Tijd, De Nederlandse Boekengids, and Nog Meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland . See 'Publications' for further details.