Author Biography

Tom Menger is a postdoctoral researcher at Global Dis:connect. He holds a BA in European Studies and a BA and MA in History from the University of Amsterdam. He pursued his PhD at the University of Cologne and was associate PhD at Queen Mary University (2018) and doctoral fellow at the Institute for European History (IEG) in Mainz (2020). In 2021, he defended his doctoral thesis, titled “The Colonial Way of War: Extreme violence in knowledge and practice of colonial warfare in the British, German and Dutch colonial empires, c. 1890-1914.”