Ronald van Velzen

Ronald van Velzen is a Lecturer at the Department of History within the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He specializes in research clusters including Global Futures, Colonial Pasts (GFCP) and Digital Humanities (Hum-Andr010d). His work bridges climate policy analysis in Taiwan and historical linguistic studies of Hokkien-Dutch manuscripts.

Research interests span Climate Change adaptation strategies, Dutch colonial linguistic documentation, and comparative cultural studies. His recent publications address public official climate literacy in Taiwan and early Dutch sinological translations of Hokkien sayings.

Van Velzen serves as Editor for Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. He collaborates internationally, with research engagements in Taiwan and the Netherlands. His work integrates digital humanities methods into historical and policy analyses.