Biography
Ida Vos is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (history department). She uses digital and traditional methods to research the representation of the intersection of gender and race, especially relating to enslaved women, in colonial newspapers in the Dutch and Spanish colonial empires. She is currently doing research into 鈥渇ree womb laws鈥, laws meant to abolish slavery gradually.
Ida holds a research master鈥檚 in history from Leiden University and a bachelor鈥檚 from Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She has previously done research into Dutch political history.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
PhD candidate | Department of History
- vos@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Ida L. Vos (2024) - - Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 56 (2), 52-59 -
- Ida Vos & Nat谩lia da Silva Perez (2025) - Wet Nursing and the Transmission of Health: Racialization and Colonialism in Brazil and Canada (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Ida Vos & Nat谩lia da Silva Perez (2025) - Quest玫es de G锚nero e Religi茫o em Debates Sobre 鈥楲eis do Ventre Livre鈥 durante o S茅culo XIX: Um estudo comparativo entre os Pa铆ses Baixos, a Espanha e o Brasil (Questions of Gender and Religion in Debates about 鈥楩ree Womb Laws鈥 during the 19th century: a comparative study of the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil) (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Ida Vos (2025) - The role of religion in the debates about Dutch and Spanish free womb proposals (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Nat谩lia da Silva Perez & Ida Vos (2025) - Legal protections for Enslaved Mothers and their Children in the Dutch West Indies (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Ida Vos & Nat谩lia da Silva Perez (2024) - Abolition "without any costs, without sacrifice at all"? Free womb discussions in Dutch and Spanish Parliament (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Ida Vos & Nat谩lia da Silva Perez (2024) - Abolition "without any costs, without sacrifice at all"?: Free womb discussions in Dutch and Spanish Parliament (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Ida Vos (2024) - Poster presentation: A Dutch Free Womb Law? Proposals for gradual abolition (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic
- Year Level
- BA-3, BA-3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH2020
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH2206
