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Edwin Pietersma

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thailand

Edwin Pietersma commences his PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2024. His research centers on transnational history of East and Southeast Asia, in particular on Japanese migrants to Siam/Thailand and the Dutch-East Indies/Indonesia since 1854. Here, he combines notions of (inter)subjectivity, agency, and entangled history to deconstruct existing colonial legacies and notions of othering.



Edwin Pietersma was born and raised in Friesland, the Netherlands: he holds a BA in History from the University of Groningen (with an exchange year at Osaka University), MA in Asian Studies from Leiden University (cum laude), and a MA in Cultural Anthropology from National Taiwan University. From 2021 to 2024, he worked as an academic lecturer at Bansomdej Chaophraya Rajabhat University in Bangkok, Thailand. During this time, he has published on representations of colonialism in Japanese museums (Museum and Society 21(3), 22-35) and on alternative discourses to disrupt the binary opposition in Dutch colonial discourses (with Rachel Harrison, Indonesia and the Malay World 51(151), 364-381).

Besides his research, he is interested in language learning (he currently speaks seven languages, including Japanese, Mandarin, and Thai, and is planning to start learning Bahasa during his graduate studies), museums, traveling, and study of religion.

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