Rate My Professor Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

Dr. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer serves as Senior Lecturer in the History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He completed his studies in history at the Universities of Aberdeen and Amsterdam and received a Master of Studies in Imperial and Commonwealth History. In 2010 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam with the thesis A War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902). Kuitenbrouwer specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history with particular attention to colonial media and the history of international radio broadcasting. His research encompasses the Dutch empire, decolonisation processes, South African history and imperial culture in Europe.

Throughout his career Kuitenbrouwer has held appointments at the University of Amsterdam and coordinated major projects including the Media War project on propaganda in Dutch-language media during the Second World War at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision from 2020 to 2023. He currently leads the project Distant Voices on Indonesian broadcasters at Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep from 2025 to 2030. Key publications include the co-authored volume The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (Oxford University Press, 2022) and War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902) (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). He has contributed numerous articles and book chapters on topics such as Dutch broadcasting to Indonesia during decolonisation and radio as a tool of empire. Kuitenbrouwer has served as editorial secretary for Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and co-edited special issues on transnational radio monitoring and media history. His work has influenced scholarship on colonial media, imperial propaganda and the role of broadcasting in international relations.