Arnout van der Meer

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.