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Gert Oostindie ( Ridderkerk , July 4 1955 ) is a Dutch historian, specializing in Dutch (post) colonial and Caribbean history. He is director of the KITLV institute of the Academy.

Oostindie studied history and social sciences, specializing in Latin American history at the Free University of Amsterdam. He graduated therewith honors in 1982. and graduated cum laude from the University of Utrecht in 1989 with a dissertation on slavery and the plantation -based economy in Suriname . He became head of the department of KITLV Caribbean Studies in 1983. This he remained until he was director of the institute in 2000. From 1993 to 2006 he worked as a Professor of Anthropology of the Caribbean at the University of Utrecht . In September 2006 he was appointed Professor of Caribbean History at the University of Leiden .

Oostindie's main research areas are the Caribbean and Dutch colonial history and postcolonial history. He has published more than 25 books and hundreds of articles on the history and decolonization of the Dutch Caribbean; on history, ethnicity and migration in the Caribbean and Latin America in general. Furthermore, the significance of migration from Indonesia and the Caribbean and the 'coming home' of the colonial history of the Dutch national identity and the Indonesian National Revolution and the role of the Dutch army, especially concerning war crimes.