Jessica den Oudsten is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, Guest Researcher at the Huygens Institute and Data Curator at the Amsterdam City Archives. Her research focuses on integration and social mobility of immigrants and their descendants in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1811. She specialises in early modern maritime history and migration history. She is co-author of the book De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt.