Carolien Stolte's research focuses on the international history of South Asia. Her current project, entitled "Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian moment in the early Cold War", is funded by an NWO VENI grant (2018-2022). Stolte is editor-in-chief of the journal Itinerario (Cambridge University Press) as well as co-editor of the book series Global Connections: Routes and Roots (Leiden University Press). From 2012-2014 she coordinated the Cosmopolis Project. She was a Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2014-2015) and served as a member of the Executive Council of the World History Association (2016-2019). In 2020, she was awarded an Early Career Award by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

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Carolien Stolte's research focuses on the international history of South Asia. Her current project, entitled Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian moment in the early Cold War, is funded by an NWO VENI grant (2018-2022). Stolte is editor-in-chief of the journal Itinerario (Cambridge University Press) as well as co-editor of the book series Global Connections: Routes and Roots (Leiden University Press). From 2012-2014 she coordinated the Cosmopolis Project. She was a Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2014-2015) and serves as a member of the Executive Council of the World History Association (2016-2019). 

Research

The Afro-Asian Networks project which Carolien Stolte co-directs with PI Su Lin Lewis has resulted in a Manifesto (Radical History Review 2018), which highlights the multiple modes of internationalism by which Asian and African actors navigated and subverted the power dynamics of the early Cold War. Two special issues are forthcoming in the Journal of World History (2019) and the Journal of Social History (2019). The project can also be followed through its blog and twitter feed. Carolien continues working on these themes through her current VENI-funded project "Southern Crossings", which focuses on Indian trade unionists, peace activists, and feminists in the Afro-Asian movement.

Books

Michele Louro, Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter and Sana Tannoury Karam (eds.), The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (Leiden University Press, 2020).

Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker, World History: a Genealogy (Leiden University Press, 2017).

Carolien Stolte and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities (Amsterdam University Press, 2016).

Carolien Stolte, Philip Angel’s Deex-Autaers: Vaisnava mythology from manuscript to book market in the context of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1600-1672 (Manohar Press, 2012). 

Grants & awards

KNAW Early Career Award (2020)

NWO VENI Grant 'Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era'

AHRC Network Grant 'Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War, 1945-1960' (Co-I) with Dr. Su Lin Lewis, Bristol University (2016-2018)

Niels Stensen Postdoctoral Fellowship, History Department, Harvard University (2014-2015)

NWO Talent Scheme PhD Fellowship (2007-2012)