UT Bosma

Prof. UT Bosma is an Endowed Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity. He concurrently serves as Senior Onderzoeker (Senior Researcher) at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis in Amsterdam since 1997. His work bridges global economic history with colonial studies, focusing on commodity frontiers, Dutch colonial empires, and regional economic disparities in colonial contexts like Indonesia.

Research interests include the intersection of global capitalism with local socio-economic structures, computational methods in commodity history, and colonial economic systems. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and handbooks, including works on commodity chains, colonial GDP analysis, and historiographical critiques of Dutch imperialism.

Bosma teaches courses such as 'Commodity Chains' and has supervised three PhD theses. His recent publications emphasize transdisciplinary approaches to understanding historical commodity systems, blending quantitative analysis with cultural and economic frameworks.