Tycho van der Hoog
PhD candidate / Guest
- Name
- Dr. T.A. van der Hoog MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- t.a.van.der.hoog@asc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4811-638X
For an overview of Tycho van der Hoog's research and publications, visit his profile on the ASCL website.
Tycho van der Hoog is a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden. His PhD project, tentatively titled ‘Blood, Bullets, and Bronze: The Relations Between North Korea and Southern Africa, 1960-2020’ seeks to reveal the ties that bind North Korea to the African continent. His monograph Monuments of Power: The North Korean Origin of Nationalist Monuments in Namibia and Zimbabwe was published by the African Studies Centre Leiden in 2019. His monograph Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibian Beer was published by Basler Afrika Bibliographien in 2019.
He is the recipient of the BISA African Affairs Postgraduate Paper Prize 2021.
Tycho holds a bachelor’s degree in history, a bachelor’s degree in political science, a research master’s degree in African Studies, and a master’s degree in history (cum laude) from Leiden University. He previously worked at the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa and lectured at BA programme Korean Studies of Leiden University.
He is supervised by Prof. Dr Jan-Bart Gewald and Prof. Dr Remco Breuker.
(Photo: Simone Both)
PhD candidate / Guest
- Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Wetenschappelijke staf
- Hoog T.A. van der (2024), Pyongyang as a crossroads for Afro-Asian cooperation. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), IIAS Newsletter (97): 4-5.
- Hoog T.A. van der (7 May 2024), North Korea and the liberation of Southern Africa, 1960-2020 (Dissertatie. Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Gewald J.B. & Breuker R.E.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2024), Pyongyang as a crossroads for Afro-Asian diplomacy. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies, IIAS Newsletter (97): 4-5.
- Money D.J. & Hoog T.A. van der (2024), Russia’s position in Africa isn’t as strong as It looks, World Politics Review : .
- Hoog T.A. van der (12 November 2024), Afrika en de nieuwe Koude Oorlog. Faces of Science. Amsterdam: NEMO Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Ellis S. & Hoog T.A. van der (2024), Stephen Ellis Archive inventory. [Leiden]: [Stephen Ellis]. [other].
- Hoog T.A. van der (27 January 2023), How North Korean ideology inspired African development. Afro-Asians Visions. [blog entry].
- Hoog T.A. van der (2023), Review of: Money D. (2021), White mineworkers on Zambia's copperbelt, 1926-1974: in a class of their own. Studies in the social history of the global South no. 44/1. Leiden: Brill. Connections: a journal for historians and area specialists .
- Hoog T.A. van der (9 January 2023), Waar worden de Noord-Koreaanse raketten van betaald?. NEMO Kennislink blog. Amsterdam: NEMO Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Hoog T.A. van der (2023), A monumental relationship: North Korea and Namibia. North Korea in the World Special Series. Washington: East-West Center. [policy paper].
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Onderdruk en in verzet: dromen van de bevrijding van zuidelijk Afrika. In: Groesen M. van, Ommen K. van, Richard A.-I., Schrikker A., Storms M. & Verhoeven G.S (Eds.), Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven: 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten. Tielt: Lannoo. 380-381.
- Hoog T.A. van der (16 March 2022), The military ties between African ruling parties and North Korea. BISA blog. Birmingham: Bri)tish International Studies Association (BISA). [blog entry].
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), A new chapter in Namibian history: reflections on archival research, History in Africa 49: 389-414.
- Tycho T.A. van der (2022), On the success and failure of North Korean development aid in Africa. In: Yonho K. (Ed.), Ideology and economic policy in North Korea. NKEF Policy and Research Paper Series. Washington: George Washington University. 31-42.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Research note: the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) pamphlet collection, Cold War History 22(3): 363-368.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Brewing tensions: the colonial gaze of the German-Namibian publishing industry, Africa Spectrum 57(3): 264-281.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Defying United Nations sanctions: three reasons for African engagement with North Korea. On Korea: Academic Paper Series. Washington D.C.: Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). [policy paper].
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Oppressed and resisting: dreaming of the liberation of southern Africa. In: Griesen M. van, Ommen K. van, Richard A.-I., Schrikker A., Storms M. & Verhoeven G. (Eds.), Maps that made history: 1000 years of world history in 100 old maps. Tielt: Lannoo Publishers. 380-381.
- Hoog T.A. van der & Moore B.C. (2022), Paper, pixels, or plane tickets?: Multi-archival perspectives on the decolonisation of Namibia, Journal of Namibian Studies 32: 77-106.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2022), Microphone revolution: North Korean cultural diplomacy during the liberation of Southern Africa. In: Stolte C. & Lewis S.L. (Eds.) The lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 265-290.
- Hoog T.A. van der (11 July 2022), We need to interrogate the North-South dichotomy in African Studies publishing. LSE blog. London: London School of Economics and Political Science. [blog entry].
- Hoog T.A. van der (25 September 2020), A history of beer in Namibia. The Namibian.
- Oomes N., Heyma A., Belt T., Berthiaume N., Bisschop P., Jongerius D., Spanikova V., Dietz A.J., Akinyoade A., Hoog T.A. van der & Kaag M.M.A. (2019), Dutch labour market shortages and potential labour supply from Africa and the Middle East: Is there a match? Excecutive summary and main report. SEO report no. 2019-24. Amsterdam: SEO Amsterdam economics.
- Hoog T.A. van der, Dietz A.J. & Düvell F. (2019), Migration, education & development: databases, additional information and a selected bibliography. Annex G. to "Dutch labour market shortages and potential labour supply from Africa and the Middle East" (SEO report no. 2019-24). SEO Amsterdam economics: Amsterdam.
- Hoog T.A. van der (2019), Monuments of power: the North Korean origin of nationalist monuments in Namibia and Zimbabwe. African Studies Collection no. 74. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Hoog T.A. van der (2019), Breweries, politics and identity: the history behind Namibian beer. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB).
- Hoog T.A. van der (2018), Warum Nordkorea in Afrika riesige Denkmäler für Diktatoren baut : Zwangsarbeiter im Ausland finanzieren den nordkoreanischen Staat. Eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung zeigt erstmals, wie eng die Beziehungen zwischen Nordkorea und afrikanischen Diktatoren sind, Vice : .
- Hoog T.A. van der (2018), Uncovering North Korean forced labour in Africa : towards a research framework. In: Breuker R.A. & Gardingen I.B.L.A. (Eds.), People for profit: North Korean forced labour on a global scale. Leiden: LeidenAsiaCentre. 67-83.
- Hoog T.A. van der, Dietz A.J. & Düvell F. (2018), Migration, education & development : databases, additional information and a selected bibliography. Annex G. SEO report. Leiden; Amsterdam: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL); SEO Amsterdam Economics.