The IMPRODECO Team
Floris Schuiling
Principal Investigator
Floris Schuiling specializes in musical performance practices since the mid-twentieth century to the present. His work describes the interplay between improvisation, technology, and notation in shaping musical practices. Much of his research is based on close observation of performance processes,...
Reinda Hullij
PhD Candidate
Reïnda Hullij's research will focus on identity formation within Indo-Dutch communities through freedoms of interpretation in jazz and improvised music. Other related research interests include Indigenous epistemologies, relations between Southeast Asian and South Pacific cultures through (pre-)historic migration routes, and...
Thomas Overdijk
PhD Candidate
Thomas Overdijk’s research will focus on political projects of emancipation and self-determination through musical expression in the context of coloniality, with a particular emphasis on Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean. Previously a lecturer of political science at the Radboud University...
Loes Rusch
Postdoctoral Fellow
Loes Rusch will explore the institutionalization of jazz and improvised music in the post-war Netherlands, with a special focus on music education and cultural policy-making. Rusch will examine the impact of (Eurocentric) notions of artistic and aesthetic value on the...