Research Projects

Exploring Slave Trade in Asia - Towards an Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Database

Database

This project builds a database that reconstructs the historic slave trade in the Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia region in collaboration with an emerging network of scholars committed to develop a coherent field of Asian slave trade and slavery studies, including East, Southeast and South Asia as well as South and East Africa.

The silver trade powered global connections for more than three centuries, and from 1450 to 1800, 85% of the world’s silver originated from the Americas.

The IISH holds the complete archive of the Dutch Diamond Workers Union (Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB)).

• Projectleader: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2018
• Grant: Monderiaan Fonds

The main objective of this project was to develop an empirical and qualitative understanding of labour as well as labour force in the Iranian oil industry.

Project-leader: Touraj Atabaki

Tegen de stroom in: de sociale mobiliteit van joodse Nederlanders (1880-1940)

• Project leader: Karin Hofmeester and Leo Lucassen
  
  Grant: € 500,000 by KNAW Research Fund
  
  Partner: Huygens ING

• Project-leader: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2013

• Grant: € 218,500 by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

40 years of lifecycle for migrants and non-migrants in the Netherlands

• Project lead: Leo Lucassen
• Grant: € 500,000  (€ 182.540 IISH) by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Start: 2018
• Partner: NIDI

LONGPOP: Methodologies and Data Mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers

• Project lead: Kees Mandemakers
• Start: 2015
• Grant: € 3.860,731 (€ 510,748 IISH) by the European Research Counsil - Marie Curie - Horizon 2020

• Project lead: Henk Wals/Richard Zijdeman
• Start: 2014
• Grant: € 2,067,639 (€ 694,602 IISH) by NWO Large Research Infrastructures
• Partners: Free University Amsterdam, Utrecht University

• Project lead: Matthias van Rossum
• Duration: 01-01-2016 to 28-02-2019.
• Grant: € 250.000 by NWO (VENI)

This large multi-year project aims to study the long history of commodity frontiers through an interdisciplinary research design that uses both written archival sources and fieldwork.

In the past four hundred years large scale circulations of people, ideas and commodities took place, leading - amongst other things - to shifts in labour relations worldwide. Many historians share the idea that consumption plays an important role in the production of these commodities and therefore also in shaping labour relations.