PhD Position on the History of the Indonesian Programme of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep 1945-1965
Are you interested in radio studies and the shared history of Indonesia and the Netherlands? Then we are looking for you. The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies is inviting applications for a position of PhD candidate in the NWO-funded project ‘Distant Voices: Uncovering the Agency of Indonesian Broadcasters at Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1945-1965)’.
Pioneering radio studies
The project ‘Distant Voices’ pioneers a new methodology in radio studies by analyzing the agency of broadcasters from the Global South in media organizations in the Global North. The PhD candidate will write a thesis on a relevant case study: the history of the Indonesian programme of the Dutch international broadcaster Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1945-1965). The project’s preliminary outcomes will be discussed within an international network of media historians based in Asia and Europe. In addition the PhD candidate will contribute to joint activities of the University of Amsterdam and the project’s main institutional partner, the Netherlands Institute for Sound &Vision.
The PhD candidate will be supervised by Elizabeth Buettner and Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (History Department). The daily supervision is in the hands of Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, who is the Project Leader of ‘Distant Voices’.
This is what you will be doing
The PhD position aims to answer the project’s main research question: what was the role of Indonesians in shaping Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep broadcasts in Bahasa Indonesia between 1945 and 1965? The research for the thesis (written in English) will be based on a preselected set of digitized documents in Bahasa Indonesia and Dutch: the logbooks of the Indonesian programme of RNW containing transcripts and schedules. In addition the PhD candidate will have access to relevant collections of the Netherlands Institute for Sound &Vision.
