Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Dr. Shashidhara Kolavalli (Senior Researcher) “Steering the cocoasector in Ghana.”

  24 May 2022 - Seminar

• RHI Seminar: Merciful Tyrants? Explaining Rebel Forgiveness and State Capacity in Mughal South Asia (1556-1707)

  09 June 2022 - Seminar - This month, we are excited to welcome Ms. Safya Morshed from the London School of Economics. The seminar will take place in room B0073 at the...

Impact stories

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  Unfair Trade? Globalisation, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940

  How did trade and the operations of colonial powers affect economic development and social relations in a region? Pim de Zwart, researcher at the...
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  Shifting patterns of African migration between 1800 and today

  Seeking fortune or fleeing existential threat? Few topics are as politically charged and give rise to discussions as intense as migration. Together...

Highlights

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  Vici-grant for Wageningen research on poverty reduction

  14 April 2021
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  Veni grant awarded to Ingrid de Zwarte

  10 December 2020
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  Veni grant awarded to Daniel Gallardo Albarrán

  10 December 2020
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  Winner WASS Publication Award 2020

  23 October 2020

• WUR historian Ewout Frankema receives Ammodo Science Award 2019

  15 April 2019

Vacancy

• 08 April 2022

  Postdoc position: Colonial Entanglements and Long-term Legacies: Tracing the Footprints of Wageningen University in Indonesia and Suriname, 1876-present (1.0fte)

News

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  10 December 2020

  Veni grant awarded to Ingrid de Zwarte

  - Ingrid de Zwarte from the Rural and Environmental History Group has been awarded a NWO Veni grant for her project: 'Food, Famine, and the End of...
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  10 December 2020

  Veni grant awarded to Daniel Gallardo Albarrán

  - Daniel Gallardo Albarrán from the Rural and Environmental History Group has been awarded a NWO Veni grant for his project: 'Global health...
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  23 October 2020

  Winner WASS Publication Award 2020

  - Michiel de Haas has won the award for his paper entitled ‘Moving Beyond Colonial Control? Economic Forces and Shifting Migration from...
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  12 October 2020

  Boekpresentatie '10 miljard monden'

  - Op 16 oktober vindt tijdens de Dutch Food Week de boekpresentatie plaats van het boek '10 miljard monden', een initiatief van Ingrid de Zwarte en...
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  06 July 2020

  Announcing updated course content and new lecturer

  - The course content of African History (RHI-51806) is updated and we welcome new lecturer Dr. Doreen Kembabazi