Rate My Professor Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer in the History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Humanities. He obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2010 with the thesis A War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902), which was published as a monograph by Amsterdam University Press in 2012. His academic work centres on nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, with a focus on colonial media history, the history of the Dutch empire, decolonisation processes, and the development of international radio broadcasting. Kuitenbrouwer has held his current position at the University of Amsterdam and has contributed to research groups within the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, including projects examining power and movements as well as modern history. He coordinated the MediaOorlog project on propaganda in Dutch-language media during the Second World War between November 2020 and September 2023 at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Since October 2025 he has served as project leader for Distant Voices: Uncovering the Agency of Indonesian Broadcasters at Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1945-1965), supported by an NWO Open Competitie M grant. Among his major publications are the 2025 co-authored volume The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting with Oxford University Press and the 2022 article Dutch Speaking to Dutch: Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia during the Decolonization War (1945–1949) in the Journal of Radio & Audio Media. He also co-edited Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century with Routledge in 2025 and Mediaoorlog in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis in 2023. Kuitenbrouwer maintains editorial responsibilities as redactie secretaris for Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and has received an honourable mention for ASH Valorisation in 2023 for his project coordination work. His research extends to topics such as radio as a tool of empire, global telecommunication technologies, and the digital restitution of historical collections.