The ASH PhD representative is Rosa de Jong. Rosa started her NWO-funded research at ASH in September 2019. As of January 2021, she is representing the Faculty of Humanities within the Central PhD Council.
Rosa researches the several hundred refugees who fled from the Dutch-speaking Low Countries to the Caribbean during the Second World War. Her research focuses on their arrival and reception in Jamaica, Cuba, Curaçao and Suriname and their subsequent migrations. She is also a guest researcher at KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean studies) and at NIOD (Institute for War Holocaust and Genocide Studies).