She spent two years at the African Studies Centre doing research on Africa and South America for a project on the history of a development organization. She published a booklet for the ASC on the history of Dutch former aid-workers and their development contribution to Zambia. She writes for several news outlets and participated in a journalist-in-residence- fellowship at NIAS. She is currently working on a book about the Indonesian independence war on the island of Bali under the supervision of Peter Romijn (Niod/University of Amsterdam) and Remco Raben (Utrecht University/University of Amsterdam) and contributes at the KITLV in Leiden to the government-sponsored project Decolonization, violence and war in Indonesia 1945-1950.