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Posthumus fellow Dr Coen van Galen receives NWO XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Coen van Galen, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Associate Professor researcher with the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH), an NWO XS Grant. These grants are awarded for ideas with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro that hold great promise and aim to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, innovative research in the research fields covered by the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities.
The focus of Dr van Galen’s research project is on how many people lived in slavery in Surinam between 1650 and 1863. He is developing a new demographic model to estimate the total number of enslaved people. Existing models were not suitable due to the extremely high death rates at plantations. Thanks to numerous historical sources from Surinam, this research project offers an important contribution to the social and scientific debate around slavery.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Coen van Galen with this grant.
