Merve Tosun

• E-mail: merve.tosun@iisg.nl
• Department: Data and Augmentation

Merve Tosun (1993) is a historian of early modern colonialism and slave trade in South- and Southeast Asia.

She studied colonial history at Leiden University where she graduated cum laude on a study of legal pluralism in eighteenth century Batavia drawing on archival sources in Jakarta and the Hague.

She has worked on various projects at the intersection of (early modern) colonial history and data science / digital humanities.

Currently, she is coordinator of the database project Exploring Slave Trade in Asia https://iisg.amsterdam/nl/research/projects/slave-trade-asia at the IISH and coordinator of user interaction and outreach for GLOBALISE https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/ at the Huygens Institute.

Publications:

‘Corvée Capitalism: the Dutch East India Company, labour regimes and (merchant) capitalism in early modern Asia’, Journal of Asian Studies 80 (2021). With M. van Rossum.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821000735[Opens in a new window]

Slavernij herbezien: Visuele bronnen over slavernij in de Indonesische archipel en Indische Oceaan (LM Publishers 2021). Edited with M. van Rossum, N. Jouwe and W. Manuhutu.\\\\

https://lmpublishers.nl/product/slavernij-herbezien/

‘Voorbij topografie: Een nieuwe blik op de stadsgezichten van Johannes Rach’, in Slavernij herbezien: Visuele bronnen over slavernij in de Indonesische archipel en Indische Oceaan (LM Publishers 2021), 109-115.

Revisualizing Slavery: Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean (University of Washington Press 2021). Edited with M. van Rossum, N. Jouwe and W. Manuhutu.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9789460220111/re-visualizing-slavery/

‘Beyond geography: Revisiting Johannes Rach’s cityscapes’, in Revisualizing Slavery: Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean (University of Washington Press 2021), 109-115.

‘Women at Home and Men Outdoors? Locating Enslaved People in Eighteenth Century Batavia’, Yearbook of Women’s History 39 (Uitgeverij Verloren 2020), 41-56.

Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World (Bloomsbury 2020). With M. van Rossum, A. Geelen and B. van den Hout.https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/testimonies-of-enslavement-9781350122369/

‘On the Run: Runaway Slaves and Their Social Networks in Eighteenth-Century Cochin’, Journal of Social History 54:1 (2020), 66-87. With A. Geelen, B. van den Hout, M. de Windt and M. van Rossum.
https://academic.oup.com/jsh/issue#1082380-5901211

‘Between Markets and Chains: An Exploration of the Experiences, Mobility and Control of Enslaved Persons in Eighteenth-Century South-West India’, in: Alicia Schrikker and Nira Wickramasinghe (eds.), Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean (Leiden: LUP 2020). With A. Geelen, B. van den Hout and M. van Rossum.
https://www.lup.nl/product/being-a-slave/