Dr. Rixt Woudstra has recently joined the Arts and Culture department and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies as assistant professor in Architectural History.

Peter van Dam (senior lecturer in Dutch history), Gerrit Schaafsma (PhD candidate in Philosophy), and colleagues from the Faculty of Social Sciences (Paul Raekstad and Valerie Schreur), have received a seed grant for ...

An international consortium of researchers including Liana Saif, assistant professor in the history of Esotericism, has received a Japanese KAKEN-grant for their research project Traditions of Magic in the Medieval ...

Marie-Aude Baronian started her academic career researching the Armenian Genocide, but she now focuses on fashion. In this third edition of De Goede Gesprekken she explains how this change in research focus came about.

The Faculty of Humanities welcomes all who wish to contribute to our research programmes by writing a dissertation.

The wide range of research in the humanities at the University of Amsterdam takes place within six research schools. Five of these together form the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). One of them, ...

AIHR offers strategic funds to support faculty researchers to strengthen their CV or write grant applications.