Virginie Mamadouh

Virginie Mamadouh 

Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography which she had taught since 1996 at the department of Geography, Planning and International Development at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated with a degree in political geography from the UvA, where she also completed her PhD. Her PhD thesis dealt with urban social movements in Amsterdam (De stad in eigen hand 1992). She is the editor of the academic journal Geopolitics.

Her research interests pertain to multiscalar political geographies; urban questions; geopolitics; new media, transnationalism, migration and territorial identities; European integration; and multilingualism. She teaches political geography and geopolitics, amostly in relation to the European Union.

Jeroen van Pelt

Study Advisor/ Programme Coordinator

Jeroen van Pelt is Study Adviser of Human Geography.

"The UvA is the only university in the Netherlands offering Political Geography as specialization. Amsterdam is great place to conduct research in Political Geography with Its culturally and linguistically diverse population involved transnationally in multiscalar politics. It hosts a dense network of NGOs and is close to major sites of international governance (The Hague and Brussels). Moreover The Netherlands is an active player in EU politics, in the EU-US transtatlantic alliance, and in global politics.

Involved academic staff members include Dr Virginie Mamadouh, Dr Inge van der Welle, Dr Rivke Jaffe and Dr Yves van Leynseele. Education in Political Geography is partly joint with the other tracks of Human Geography: Economic, Environmental and Urban Geography. However, most of the education takes place in small groups. This leads to small-scale research communities in which staff and students work closely together in a less formal and more open environment. This personal way of teaching contributes to the high rates of graduation within a year (80%)."