M.G.W. Reichgelt MA (Marleen)

Marleen Reichgelt works as postdoctoral researcher and teacher at the History Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her core research interests are intercultural contact and exchange in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, involving three overlapping fields: photography and visual culture, (Dutch) colonialism and postcolonialism, and the Catholic mission. Additionally, Marleen works as archivist at the Heritage Centre for Dutch Monastery Life and as editor with the Yearbook of Women's History. She has published on missionary photography and colonial childhoods in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review (2020) and Trajecta (2018).

• Colonial interference in children’s lives

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