Sanne Ravensbergen

I am a cultural historian of law in Indonesia. My research projects connect the study of law and empire, materiality, Indonesian history and Dutch colonialism in the Indian Ocean world. 

Recent Publications

Meetings and minutes: Spaces of lawmaking and legal translation in colonial Indonesia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 54:4 (2023), pp.736-759.

Nederlands kolonialisme van archief tot geschiedschrijving: Een gids voor onderzoekers (Dutch Colonialism from Archive to Historiography). Co-edited textbook with Alicia Schrikker, Sanne Ravensbergen, Lennart Bes, Pouwel van Schooten and Anita van Dissel (2023), Leiden University Press.

“Do Not Harm the Decorum”: Mixed Courts and Cloth in Colonial Indonesia. Law and History Review 40:3 (2022), pp. 533-548. 

Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices. Co-edited volume with Mahmood Kooria (2021), Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans Asia.