Neske Baerwaldt

Neske Baerwaldt is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society at Leiden University. In her dissertation, she studies Europe’s borders as bound up in colonial and imperial histories and the stratification of human life. She is also the co-producer and host of the podcast de Verbranders, together with Wiebe Ruijtenberg, where they learn about Europe’s borders through conversation, music, and sound, exploring intimacies across continents and empires.