Grants

2022 – Niels Stensen Fellowship Grant

Highly selective grant for excellent and socially committed scientists to conduct postdoctoral research at top universities abroad. Awarded for my postdoctoral research project From Memory Chasms to Memory Junctions: Resistance and Reconciliation in Indonesian and Dutch Cross-Media. As a Niels Stensen Fellow, I am conducting research at the University of Oxford (hosted by prof. dr. Elleke Boehmer) and the University of California, Los Angeles (hosted by prof. dr. Michael Rothberg).

2022 – Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society conference stipend

Stipend to present work at the IVN Colloquium Neerlandicum.

2021 – Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society grant

Budget for a research visit to prof. dr. Stef Craps and colleagues at the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, Ghent University.

2021 – 12th international Convention of Asian Scholars grant

Large competition ICAS 12 grant for selected PhD students or early career scholars.

2021 – Laura Bassi Scholarship editing fee waiver

Scholarship providing editorial assistance to junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. Received an editing fee waiver for exceptional projects.

2021 – Amsterdam University Fund travel grant

One-time gravel grant for special academic facilities that are not covered by regular funding. Received for a research visit at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia hosted by dr. Gaik Cheng Khoo [Postponed indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic].

2019 – Culture Fund Grant

Grant awarded by the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund | Jade Fund to talented researchers who belong to the top 10% of their discipline. Awarded for a research period at the University of California, Berkeley hosted by dr. Sylvia Tiwon.

2017 – UvA385 Grant

Grant awarded to excellent research proposals allowing PhD candidates to gain extra international experience. Awarded for a research period at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne hosted by dr. Edwin Jurriëns.

2016 – NWO PhD in the Humanities Grant

Grant received from the funding instrument ‘PhD in the Humanities’. Granted on the basis of the excellence of the candidate and of the PhD proposal. Aimed at facilitating the progression of young talented humanities researchers on the academic ladder. Awarded for my PhD-project Forever Narrating “Merdeka”: Memori Melompat, Popular Culture, and the Indonesian War of Independence at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Promotores: prof. dr. Jeroen de Kloet and dr. Leonie Schmidt.