Ida Vos is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (history department). She uses digital and traditional methods to research the representation of the intersection of gender and race, especially relating to enslaved women, in colonial newspapers in the Dutch and Spanish colonial empires. She is currently doing research into “free womb laws”, laws meant to abolish slavery gradually.

Ida holds a research master’s in history from Leiden University and a bachelor’s from Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She has previously done research into Dutch political history.