Jennifer Foray

Associate Professor, Department of History

Department of History

  • jlforay@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 870
    1020 E Kirkwood Ave
    Bloomington, IN47405
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Full Biography

Jennifer L. Foray is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, where her work focuses on modern imperialism and decolonization, the Dutch-Indonesian relationship in particular. Her published works on these and other subjects include Visions of Empire in the Nazi Occupied Netherlands (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and recent articles in such journals as the Journal of Austrian-American History, Itinerario, and the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies. Her current book manuscript is entitled Imperial Aftershocks: War, Decolonization, and Anti-Colonial Protest, and focuses on those groups and individuals who opposed the Dutch-Indonesian conflict of 1945–1949. Her next project aims to explore the integration of Indonesian crew into Dutch shipping and leisure cruising industries. She currently serves on the editorial board for Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions. 

She is currently accepting graduate students interested in studying modern European history and global history; imperialism and decolonization; and the history and memory of World Wars One and Two.

Publications

Manuscripts

In Progress. “Imperial Aftershocks: War, Decolonization, and Anti-Colonial Protest”: book manuscript in progress, under contract with Cambridge University Press

Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands (Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014). 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Comparatively Exceptional: The Paradoxes of Twentieth Century Dutch Imperialism and Decolonization,” in The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000. Edited by René Koekkoek, Anne-Isabelle Richard, and Arthur Weststeijn (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 89-108.

“Of Modeling and Morality: Writing World War II,” Journal of Austrian-American History 7, no. 1 (2023): 86-92.

“The Republic at the Table, with Decolonization on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946-1947,” Itinerario 45, no. 1 (2021): 124-151.

“The Liminal Spaces of Liberation: Remembering 1945 in Pandemic Times,” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies / Revue canadienne d’études néerlandaises 40, no. 2 (2020): 17-38.

“The Trauma of Liberation: Dutch Political Culture and the Indonesian Question in 1945.” Historical Reflections 41, no. 3 (Winter 2015): 79-94.

“A Unified Empire of Equal Parts: The Dutch Commonwealth Schemes of the 1920s-1940s.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 41, no. 2 (2013): 259-284.

“An Old Empire in a New Order: The Global Designs of the Dutch Nazi Party, 1931-1942.” European History Quarterly 43, no. 1 (2013): 27-52.

“The Nation Behind the Diary: Anne Frank and the Holocaust of the Dutch Jews.” The History Teacher 44, no. 33 (May 2011): 329-352.

“The ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ in the German-occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945.” Journal of Contemporary History 45, no 4 (October 2010): 768-787.

“Dutch Involvement in the Spanish Civil War: National, Local, and Individual Reactions.” Columbia Historical Review 1 (Spring 2001): 32-54.