Ho Chi Tim is Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History, University of
Hawai'i at Manoa. He is presently undertaking field research into the historical
development of social welfare in colonial Singapore. His publications include
journal articles on the origins of the Journal of Southeast Asian History/Studies
and on the history of nation-building series by the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies (ISEAS) of Singapore, as well as a book chapter on the late Dr Goh Keng
Swee and his time in the Singapore Department of Social Welfare.
Charles Jeurgens (1960) studied social and economic history at Leiden
University and archivistics at the Dutch School for Archivistics in The Hague.
He worked several years as editor of archival sources of the Batavian-French
period in the Institute of Netherlands History in The Hague and he was
municipal archivist of the city of Schiedam (1994-1999) and the city of
Dordrecht (1999-2009). From 2009 till 2012 he was head of the developing
section on appraisal and selection of the Dutch National Archives. In 2004 he
was appointed as professor of archivistics at Leiden University. Since 2012 he is
teaching archival science at the University of Amsterdam.
Ton Kappelhof (1948) studied historical sciences at the University of Utrecht
and took a doctor's degree there in 1986. He has been a senior researcher at
the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, one of the research
institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2000 to
2011. He was project leader of a digital research guide of the archives concerning
the Protestant and Catholic missions from the Netherlands between 1800 and
1960. The guide was published in 2011. See: www.huygens.knaw.nl, search on
'Repertorium zendings- en missiearchieven'.
Michael Karabinos is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University
(the Netherlands) in the Institute for History. He has his Masters of Science in
Library Science from the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) and a
Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Previously he worked as the Map Librarian at the National Geographic Society
where he was director of the Society's map collection. His current research
focuses on the management of Dutch colonial archives in Indonesia and their
role in decolonisation and the creation of an independent national identity.
He currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Gerrit Knaap (1954) holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht University and is specialized
in the history of Indonesia and of the Dutch East India Company. At present
he is senior researcher and team leader at the Huygens Institute for the History
of the Netherlands in The Hague. His recent publications include:
Monsoon traders; Ships, skippers and commodities in eighteenth-century Makassar
(Leiden, 2004), together with Heather Sutherland;
Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of
the Dutch United East India Company. Deel/Volume II: Java en Madoera/Java and
Madura (Voorburg, 2007), together with colleagues from Asia Maior.
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