History

Historians at the UvA explore history in all its breadth and complexity. The discipline consists of a rich pallet of specialisations focused on a time period, theme or region; from Classical Antiquity to the Golden Age to yesterday; from political, social, or cultural history to military history; from the Netherlands and Germany to the United States of America.

NWO funding for PhD research Emma Post

Historian Emma Post has received funding for her doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities. Financiers are the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and the NWO domain Social ...
Floribert Baudet new professor by special appointment of Military History, with a specific focus on the Netherlands

As of 1 July, Floribert Baudet has been appointed professor by special appointment of Military History, with a specific focus on the Netherlands at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His ...
Mario Damen awarded NWO Open Competition grant

Mario Damen has been awarded the NWO Open Competition grant for the project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty in the Low Countries (1400-1570)".
Maartje van Gelder is NWIB Visiting Professor 2023 at KNIR

Maartje van Gelder is NWIB Visiting Professor 2023 at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) from May until July . At KNIR she is working on her research on political protest in the early modern period.'
Five humanities scholars receive funding from Open Competition NWO

Arianna Betti, Mario Damen, Christien Klaufus, Thomas Nys and Ewa Stańczyk receive funding for their research projects from NWO's Open Competition SSH. This funding without any thematic conditions gives them the ...
Food as commons: Peter van Dam and Fabio de Castro awarded Healthy Future Seed Grant

Peter van Dam and Fabio de Castro have been awarded the Healthy Future Seed Grant in the UvA's theme-based collaboration programme that invites academics to formulate new, sometimes unexpected research questions on ...
Bram Mellink and Jesse van Amelsvoort awarded Healthy Future Seed Grant

Bram Mellink and Jesse van Amelsvoort have been awarded the Healthy Future Seed Grant in the UvA's theme-based collaboration programme that invites academics to formulate new, sometimes unexpected research questions ...
New book: Europe against revolution by Matthijs Lok

Europe against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past, published by Oxford University Press, seeks to elucidate the roots of historically-informed ideas of Europe, while also underscoring ...

Bachelor's

Ancient Studies
Master's

American Studies (History)
Master's

Classics and Ancient Civilizations
Master's

Holocaust and Genocide Studies (History)

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