Noelle Richardson
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. N.N. Richardson
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2663
- n.n.richardson@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Noelle Richardson is a postdoc at the Institute for History.
More information about Noelle Richardson
Overview
Dr. Noelle Richardson is a postdoctoral researcher in the NWO-VICI project “Exploiting the Empire of Others: Dutch Investment in Foreign Colonial Resources 1570-1800”. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute, Florence in 2019 after completing her MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford. She was lecturer at Utrecht University and project leader and coordinator of the research profiles 'Leiden Global Interactions' and 'Asian Modernities and Traditions' at Leiden University.
Research
I am particularly interested in the history of imperialism 'from below', namely the dynamics and consequences of colonial society-state interactions from the perspective of local mercantile actors in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. In addition to focusing on the importance of these actors in the history of globalization, cross-cultural trade, and the rise of global commercial networks, I am also interested in the construction of empire and the intricacies of European imperial and colonial formation and governance. In particular, I am interested in questions of subjecthood and citizenship, the emergence of legal and administrative frameworks that sought to govern (and limit) diversity, and the ideological discourses surrounding caste, race and gender.
My current research project focuses on private Dutch firms and entrepreneurs and their attempts to exploit intra-Asian trade in South and Southeast Asia, exploring in particular their reliance on, and partnerships with, local mercantile actors and intermediaries.
Grants and awards
2014 - 2015 | 4 Research Grant Awards (European University Institute) |
Sep. 2013 - 2017 | EUI National Grant (PhD Scholarship) |
June 2011 | Rajiv Gandhi Traveling Scholarship awarded by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust & Cambridge Overseas Trust |
June 2011 | Research Grant awarded by the Faculty of Inner and South Asian Studies, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Richardson N.N. (2022), Hindu mercantile culture and practices in Goa, 1750-1818. In: Antunes C.A.P. & Bethencourt F. (Eds.), Merchant cultures: a global approach to spaces, representations and worlds of trade, 1500-1800. European Expansion and Indigenous Response no. 37. Leiden: Brill. 171-193.
- Richardson N.N. (2022), 1732: Preoccupations of the Overseas Council: The End of a Portuguese Diaspora in the World?. In: Fiolhais C., Eduardo Franco J. & Paiva J.P. (Eds.), The Global History of Portugal: From Pre-History to the Modern World. Sussex: Sussex University Press.
- Richardson N.N. (2022), Managing diversity in the eighteenth-century Estado da Índia , e-Journal of Portuguese History 20(1): 40-66.
- Richardson N.N. (2020), Review of: Del Valle I., More A. & O’Toole R.S. (2020), Iberian empires and the roots of globalization. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Ler História 2020(77): 226-230.
- Richardson N.N. (2020), 1732: Preocupações do Conselho Ultramarino: O Fim de Diaspora Portuguesa no Mundo?. In: Franco J.E., Paiva J.P. & Fiolhais C. (Eds.), História Global de Portugal. Lisbon: Temas e Debates. 461-466.
- Richardson N.N. (2019), ‘Petitions, Privileges and Protection: “Performative Subjecthood” and the Use of Colonial Legal Mechanisms by Hindu Merchants in the Portuguese Estado da Índia, 1750- 1830. In: Böttcher N., Rinke S. & Vallen N. (Eds.), Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World. Berlin: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag. 265-294.
- Richardson N.N. (25 June 2019), "Industrious Gentiles": Hindu Merchants and Middlemen in the Portuguese Estado da Índia, c. 1730-1850 (Dissertatie, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Jorge Flores, Prof. Regina Grafe.
- Richardson N.N. (2015), Portugal Country Report- Content Analysis Media Reports on the Indian Community in the EU, Demo-India RR 2015/10. Florence, Italy: Migration Policy Center, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies.