Met haar benoeming op de Hans van Manen-leerstoel werd Gabriele Klein vier jaar geleden de eerste hoogleraar Ballet en Dans in Nederland. Ze blikt terug op een periode waarin ze niet alleen onderwijs gaf en onderzoek ...

Arnold Witte, Associate Professor has succeeded Moritz Föllmer (since 1 July 2026) as the vicedirector of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. As vice director, Arnold primarily dedicates his time to the PhD ...

Eva van Lier and Marieke Schouwstra (ILLC) have won the NWO Open Competition for their project: You won the lottery… NOT! Evolution, comprehension and structure of languages with late negation. Josje Verhagen Yesim ...

Funding has been awarded to sixteen talented, up and coming researchers under the 2026 round of the PhDs in the Humanities programme. Wouter Damen has received funding for his project titled: From movement to ...

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.