Philip Post
PhD candidate / Guest
- Name
- P.G. Post MA MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1646
- p.g.post@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Philip Post is a teacher and PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
More information about Philip Post
Research
My PhD thesis is focused on studying Dutch colonial culture in Asia between 1700 and 1870. It explores how local experience, colonial knowledge and political thought influenced the way colonial officials perceived the world around them and conceived their own role within that world. In what way did these locally developed colonial cultures spread into the Dutch empire? This PhD is part of the research project ‘Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870’. The project page contains more information on the research aims of the project group and explains how my thesis is a part of this.
Curriculum vitae
I studied Cultuurwetenschappen (Cultural sciences) in Maastricht for my BA and hold a MA in History (cum laude) and a MSc in Political Science (bene meritum) from the Radboud University in Nijmegen. I have been an intern for six months at the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in The Hague and I have worked for almost three years as a junior lecturer at Maastricht University. At Maastricht I obtained my University Teaching Qualification (BKO) in 2018. During my studies I have done most of my research on Baruch Spinoza and Denis Diderot. In my thesis on Diderot I investigated how he used the concept of nature to rethink Christian (sexual) ethics. My fields of interest are the history of (Dutch) colonialism, postcolonial debates and the Enlightenment.
PhD candidate / Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Post P.G. (2021), Review of: Bossenbroek M. (2020), De wraak van Diponegoro. Begin en einde van Nederlands-Indië. Amsterdam: Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 134(2): 341-342.
- Post P.G. (2021), Governors, regents, and rituals: an exploration of colonial diplomacy in Ambon at the turn of the nineteenth century, Diplomatica: a journal of diplomacy and society 3(1): 74-94.
- Randeraad N. & Post P.G. (2019), Carving out a new role: the UIA after the Second World War. In: Laqua D., Acker W. van & Verbruggen C. (Eds.), International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations. London: Bloomsbury. 73-90.
- Post P.G. (2019) Specerijen en soldaten. Over de positie van Ambon in het 19e-eeuwse Nederlands-Indië. Review of: Fraassen Chris F. van (2018), Ambon in het 19e-eeuwse Indië – van wingewest tot werfdepot. Amsterdam. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 132(3): 510-511.
- Post P.G. (5 February 2018), Engaging Students in PBL Tutorials. FASoS Teaching & Learning Blog. Maastricht. [blog entry].
- Post P.G. (2017), Natuur, moraliteit en seksualiteit. Een essay over Denis Diderot, De Achttiende eeuw: documentatieblad van de werkgroep Achttiende eeuw 2017(2): 79-90.
- Post P.G. (11 August 2015), To work or not to work? Lessen van Diderot. Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid – Blog. [blog entry].
- Lecturer