Karl Bergemann. Thesis: ‘The Runaways: A study of enslaved, apprenticed and indentured labour flight at the Cape in the emancipation era, 1830-1842.’ Department of History, Stellenbosch University. Co-supervised with Johan Fourie and Laura Mitchell. Graduated 2024.

Wouter Raaijmakers. Thesis: ‘Between Social and Legal Identities? Litigation in Dutch and British Colonial South Africa and Sri Lanka, 1730-1830.’ Department of History, Radboud University Nijmegen. Co-supervised with Dries Lyna and Matthias van Rossum. 2024-

Paul van der Linde. Thesis: ‘“With the Express Conditions”: Landownership Patterns Amongst Formerly Enslaved People in the Dutch Mercantile Empire, 1624-1744.’ Department of History, Radboud University Nijmegen. Co-supervised with Dries Lyna and Jan Kok. 2023-

Lauren Stevens. Thesis: ‘The Currency of Freedom: The Economics of Manumission in the Cape Colony.’ Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University. Co-supervised with Johan Fourie and Calumet Links. 2023-

Benjamin Crous. Thesis: ‘“All my companions are free, I alone am excepted”: A socio-economic history of Recaptured Africans at the Cape Colony in the Age of Reform, c. 1807-1834.’ Department of History, Stellenbosch University. Co-supervised with Chet Fransch. Graduated 2024.

Christiaan Burger. Thesis: ‘“A spirit of cabal and insubordination”: Tax resistance and revolt at the end of the Dutch East India Company’s rule of the Cape Colony, 1787–1798.’ Department of History, Stellenbosch University. Co-supervised with Johan Fourie. 2022-

Christiaan Burger. Thesis: The origins of the opgaafrolle at the Cape. Co-supervised with Johan Fourie. Graduated cum laude 2021.

Ilse Brookes. Thesis: ‘Dead’ money or concealed capital? How did 1723’s Cape small farmers employ their slave labour to turn a profit? Graduated cum laude 2019.

Early Modern Encounters: Money, Migration and Microbes (Masters seminar, 1st sem, 2015-2016)

Perspectives, institutions and systems related to wealth and poverty: A historical perspective (2nd year online lecture series, Term 1, 2021)
South Africa in the 18th and 19th century (2nd year lecture series, Term 3, 2019)

Slaves in Court at the Cape (1st sem, 1st year seminar series, 2016-2017)
Dutch History in Global Time (1st sem, 3rd year seminar series, 2015-2016)

I mentor postgraduate students in history, providing a sounding board to discuss publication strategies, research and writing styles, and dealing with academic setbacks. These are not content-focussed nor supervisory meetings; rather, they build academic community and shared learning.