Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Senior Lecturer History of International Relations. He is specialised in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media. In 2012 he published the monograph War of Words. Dutch pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War. Between November 2020 and September 2023 he co-ordinated the project 'Media War' on propaganda in Dutch-language media during the Second World War at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. His current research focusses on the history of Dutch international broadcasting. Between October 2025 and September 2030 he is project leader of 'Distant Voices: Uncovering the Agency of Indonesian Broadcasters at Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1945-1965)'. This project is funded by a NWO Open Competitie M grant.
Research interests
History of international radio-broadcasting
Colonial media history
History of the Dutch empire
Decolonisation
History of South Africa
Imperial culture in Europe
with S.J. Potter, D. Clayton, F. Kind-Kovacs, N. Ribeiro, R. Scales, and A. Stanton, The Wireless World. Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (Oxford University Press 2022). Go to publisher's website
'Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia during the Decolonization War (1945–1949)', Journal of Radio & Audio Media 29:1 (2022) 42-60. Go to journal website
'Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s', Itinerario, vol. 40:1 (2016) 83-103. Go to journal website
War of Words. Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902) (Amsterdam University Press 2012). Open access version available via JSTOR.