Alisha Ma
PhD researcher
- E-mail: alisha.ma@iisg.nl
- Department: Research
Alisha Ma is a PhD Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. She obtained her undergraduate degree in politics and history from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2023, and her master’s degree in early modern history from the University of Cambridge in 2024. Alisha’s MPhil thesis, titled The Fabrication of Asia in Eighteenth-Century British Imperial Imaginations, explored the role of chinoiserie objects and spaces in the development of Orientalism, racialization and coloniality.
Her PhD is part of the ERC project, Voices of Resistance: A Global Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, in which she works on spaces and identities of enslavement in the 17th- and 18th-century French colonial Indian Ocean world under the supervision of Dr. Matthias van Rossum.
