zum Inhalt
zur Hauptnavigation
zur Subnavigation

Dr. Kirsten Kamphuis

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Dr. Kirsten Kamphuis

Johannisstr. 1, room Domplatz 6, Raum 142
48143 Münster

kirsten.kamphuis@uni-muenster.de

Consultation Hours

Participation in the Cluster of Excellence

Field of research A Transcultural entanglement and disentanglement
Theory platforms Differentiation and Inequality
Research Cloud Ambiguity and decision-making
Head of project A3-25 Women, Public Life and Religion in (Post)Colonial Indonesia, c. 1920-1960

Research Foci
- Colonial History of Indonesia and Southeast Asia
- Women's movements and anticolonialism, with a focus on Indonesia in the 20th century
- Gender- and women's history, feminist theory and intersectional approaches to history writing
- Girls' education in a transnational context, 19th-20th centuries
CV
Academic Education
2015 – 2019
PhD History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence
2013 – 2015
ResMA Global and Colonial History, Leiden University
2009 – 2013
BA History, University of Groningen
External Functions
04. – 05.2024
West University of Timișoara (Visiting researcher)
08. – 09.2022
Cornell University (Southeast Asian Program, Visiting Fellow)
since 2021
Editorial Board Member Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis / Dutch Yearbook for Women's History
02. – 08.2018
Affiliated Fellow, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
Publications
Books (Edited Collections)
2024
- Swart, Sandra, Kamphuis, Kirsten, and al., et., eds. 2024. Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, Vol. 42, Gender and Animals in History . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2023
- Van Netten, Djoeke, and Kamphuis, Kirsten: et. al., eds. 2023. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis/Yearbook of Women's History, Vol. 42, Gender at Sea. Hilversum: Verloren.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
2024
- Brand, Ron, and Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2024. “Sisters at sea: Travel experiences of missionary sisters to the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” International Journal of Maritime History, № 36 (2): 257–270. doi: 10.1177/08438714231218525.
2023
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2023. “Building alternative archives. A reappraisal of Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton.” Women's History Review, № 33 (1): 152–159. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2023.2208415.
2022
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “A Mirror for the Modern Girl: Work and Marriage in an Indonesian Magazine for Young Women, c. 1937-1941.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, № 15 (1): 93–111. doi: 10.1353/hcy.2022.0005.
2020
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2020. “An Alternative Family: An Elite Christian Girls' School on Java in a Context of Social Change, c.1907-1939.” BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, № 135 (3-4): 133–157. doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10870.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten, Meerkerk, Van Nederveen, and Elise. 2020. “Education, Labour and Discipline: New Perspectives on Indigenous Children in Colonial Asia.” International Review of Social History, № 65 (1): 1–14. doi: 10.1017/S0020859019000750.
- Iris, Busschers, Kirsten, Kamphuis, and David, Kloos. 2020. “Teachers, missionaries, and activists. Female religious leadership and social mobility in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1960s.” IIAS Newsletter, № 85: 6–7.
2018
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2018. “Giving for Girls: Reconsidering Colonial Civilizing Missions in the Dutch East Indies through Charitable Girls’ Education.” New Global Studies, № 12 (2): 217–234. doi: 10.1515/ngs-2018-0030.
2015
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2015. “'The Javanese is Soft and Docile’: Deconstructing Masculinities in Ethnography about the Netherlands Indies.” Leidschrift, № 30 (2): 163-178.
Review (Journals)
2023
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2023. “Saving the children: humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire, by Emily Baughan.” History of Education, № 2023 (52): 1050–1052. doi: 10.1080/0046760X.2022.2083698.
2022
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “Suze Zijlstra, De voormoeders. Een verborgen Nederlands-Indische familiegeschiedenis.” BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, № 137 doi: 10.51769/bmgn-lchr.12427.
2021
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2021. “Exploring entanglements of empire through women's labour. Review of 'Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java. Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections', by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.” Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, № 24 (1): 75–78. doi: 10.5117/TVGN2021.1.007.KAMP.
2018
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2018. “Review of 'Transnationalism, Education and Empowerment. The Latent Legacies of Empire' by Niranjan Casinader.” NewBooks.Asia
2017
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2017. “Review of 'Youth and Empire: Trans-colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia', by David M. Pomfret.” Itinerario, № 41 (1): 183–185. doi: 10.1017/S0165115317000195.
2015
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2015. “Review of 'Wives, Slaves and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia', by Eric Jones.” Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, № 18 (3): 349–352. doi: 10.5117/TVGN2015.3.RECE.
Non-Scientific Contributions (Journals)
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2023. “Ook in de koloniën sloofden kinderen voor de kerk.” Trouw, № 80
Research Article (Book Contributions)
2022
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “Girls’ Bodies as a Site of Reform: The Roman Catholic Boarding Schools in Flores, Colonial Indonesia, c.1880s–1940s.” in Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, edited by Daniel Gerster and Felicity Jensz. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99041-1_12.
- Brand, Ron, and Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “Zusters op zee. Reiservaringen van missiezusters naar Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.” in Gender at Sea, Vol. 41 of Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, edited by Van Netten, Djoeke et. al.. Hilversum: Verloren.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “1933: Rasuna Said in de cel.” in Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland, edited by Lex et. al. Heerma van Voss. Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos.
2021
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2021. “Schoolmeisjes of huwbare vrouwen? Hoe een kritisch perspectief op leeftijd de historische praktijk verrijkt.” in Living Concepts. Forty Years of Engaging Gender and History, Vol. 40 of Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, edited by Eveline Buchheim et.al.. Hilversum: Verloren.
2018
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2018. “Taman Siswa Schools in Colonial Indonesia: Looking Back to the Past, Getting Ready for the Future.” in Looking Back, Going Forward: School_Time in Flux and Flow in Europe and Beyond, edited by Pruneri Fabio Thyssen Geert. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
Theses (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2019. “Indigenous Girls and Education in a Changing Colonial Society. The Dutch East Indies, c. 1880-1942.” Dissertation thesis, European University Institute.
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
2024
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2024. “Pahésan Magazine and the Modern Girl in Colonial Indonesia. An Interview with Kirsten Kamphuis.” SHCY Digital Childhoods
2023
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2023. “Indonesian queer histories as solace and resistance.” New Mandala
2022
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2022. “Raden Roro Moerjan: One of the first students at an elite girls’ boarding school in Yogyakarta in the 1910s.” Colonial Children Connected
2021
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2021. “Not your Average National Hero: Scattered Archives and the Women of the Indonesian Anticolonial Movement.” German Historical Institute London Blog
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2021. “Very Special Friendships: Glimpses of Queer Relationships Among Women in the Colonial Archive.” Queer Disrupt
2020
- Kamphuis, Kirsten. 2020. “Mimpi Merdeka Raden Ajeng Kaida.” Historia.id
Scientific Talks
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2024: “Postcolonial solidarity? Dialogues between Dutch and Indonesian women’s movements (1960s-1970s) ”. International Convention of Asia Scholars, Universitas Airlangga , Jul 29, 2024.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2024: “Discourses of Development and Women’s Roles in Indonesian Women’s Magazines, 1920s-1960s ”. Voluntariness, women and development in late colonial and postcolonial societies, Erfurt University, Jul 5, 2024.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2024: “Anticolonialism in Print. How Indonesian Activists Communicated, c.1920s-1940s”. International Graduate Conference in Communication , West University of Timișoara, Apr 19, 2024.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2022: “The Modern Woman on the Page. Questions of Religion and Gender in Indonesian Women’s Magazines (c.1930-1960)”. EuroSEAS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Jun 29, 2022.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2022: “Beyond ‘Pahlawan Perempuan’: Indonesian Colonial History from a Gender Perspective”. Online guest lecture, Universitas Nasional Yogyakarta, Jun 10, 2022.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2022: “Contesting and Legitimizing Dutch Colonialism in the Indonesian Women’s Movement: Muslim and Christian Views”. Gender, Empire, Expansion – Imperial Legitimacy and Gendered Conduct since the Eighteenth Century (online workshop), Freie Universität Berlin, Feb 3, 2022.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2021: “From dukun bayi to the first medical doctor: healthcare training for women in colonial Indonesia, c. 1900-1942”. AREISSH - Annual Conference on Educational Implementation, Social Studies and History, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Aug 25, 2021.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2021: “Of modern girls and pious mothers: looking at visual material in Indonesian women's magazines, 1930s-1950s”. AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies: Paradigms and New Frontiers (Online Conference), Michigan State University, Jun 23, 2021.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2021: “'The spirit of the young: Muslim students' activism in colonial Indonesia, 1920s-1930s'”. Children’s History Society Biennial Conference: Children and Young People Speaking Up and Speaking Out (Online Conference), Manchester Metropolitan University, Jun 18, 2021.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2020: “'Where is a woman's place?' Gendering the archives of (post)colonial Indonesian organisations, c.1920-1965”. Archiving, Recording and Representing Feminism: The Global History of Women's Emancipation in the 20th Century (Online Conference) , German Historical Institute London, Dec 12, 2020.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2020: “Indigenous girls’ bodies as a site of moral reform: the Roman Catholic boarding schools on Flores in the Dutch East Indies, c.1880s-1940s”. Exclude to Include: Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools, their Participants and Processes during the 19th and 20th Centuries (Online Conference), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, Nov 5, 2020.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2019: “An alternative family: domesticity and Protestantism at an elite Javanese girls’ school in the Dutch East Indies, c. 1907-1937”. Children in (post)colonial missions, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jul 4, 2019.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2018: “'The older girls are very sweet to the little ones': affective relations in girls’ schools in the Netherlands Indies, c. 1900-1940”. Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden, the Netherlands, Feb 14, 2018.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2017: “Indisch: un mondo in una parola. Storia e letterature dell’Indonesia (post)coloniale”. Invited talk, Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Napels, Italy, Nov 15, 2017.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2017: “Gadis-gadis kita. Taman Siswa as an example of gendered education in the Netherlands Indies, 1922-1942”. Invited talk, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Jul 19, 2017.
- Kamphuis, Kirsten 2017: “Intimate strategies. Elite Javanese girlhood and Christian domesticity in three boarding schools in the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1907-1940”. Seen but not Heard? The Spatial, Emotional and Material Sites of Childhood and Youth from Antiquity to Modernity, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Jan 18, 2017.