Esther Captain

(Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies - KITLV)

Dr. Esther Captain is a senior researcher and staff member at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands. At KITLV, she is developing a new research line on postcolonial Netherlands, with links to Indonesia and the Caribbean. Moreover, she is a researcher at the ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’-program at the same institute.