Pascal Konings

• E-mail: pascal.konings@iisg.nl
• Department: Research

Pascal Konings is a junior researcher and project coordinator of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project at the International Institute for Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, as well as a PhD candidate on the ERC project Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean at the IISH and Radboud University. His PhD research focuses on patterns of enslaved maritime mobilities and enslaved experiences during these mobilities across colonial Dutch Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

He studied history and graduated from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam, specializing in early modern literacy and the Dutch East India Company. For his masters’ thesis on rural literacy rates, roles and functions in the Rijnmond area (1695-1769), he was awarded the Historisch Tijdschrift Holland Scriptieprijs 2022.

Pascal has been part of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project since 2021. His contributions in the role of student assistant, research assistant and junior researcher for ESTA include data entry and curation, programming, and several (academic) publications on ESTA’s findings.

Publications: Pascal Konings – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)