Link to Homepage
Back to Index

Arnout van der Meer

Title

Associate Professor of History; Chair of History

Department

History

Information

Office Hours

M-W: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
HI141 Genocide and Globalization: 20th-Century World History A
HI255 Histories of Southeast Asia: Slavery, Diasporas, and Revolutions A
HI276 Patterns and Processes in World History A
HI438 Research Seminar: Global Commodities A

Education

  • Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2014
  • M.A.,  Rutgers University, 2005
  • M.A., Leiden University, 2004


Areas of Expertise

  • World and Comparative History

  • Southeast Asian - Indonesian History

  • History of European Colonialism and Imperialism

 

Publications

Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2021).

“Performing Colonial Modernity: Fairs, Consumerism, and the Emergence of the Indonesian Middle Classes,” Bijdragen voor de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia), vol. 173, no.4 (2017): 503-538.

“Rituals and Power: Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Contestation of Colonial Hegemony in Indonesia”, in: Hazel Hahn (ed.), Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2019): 75-103.

“Igniting Change in Colonial Indonesia: Soemarsono’s Contestation of Colonial Hegemony in a Global Context,” The Journal of World History, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 2019): 501-532.

“New Turning Points in Southeast Asian History: re-writing Southeast Asian chronologies from within,” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, vol. 8, no. 2 (November 2020): 81-83. Together with Bart Luttikhuis.

“1913 in Indonesian History: Demanding Equality, Changing Mentality,” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, vol. 8, no. 2 (November 2020), 115-133. Together with Bart Luttikhuis.