NIAS-KNAW is proud to announce that thirty-one researchers from across the humanities and social sciences have been awarded an Individual NIAS Fellowship for the year-group 2019/20. The remaining thirty places will be filled by co-sponsored fellows and theme-group members.
“We are delighted to see that the NIAS year group for 2019/20 is developing into such a fascinating and varied community of scholars in terms of discipline, gender, career phase and country of origin,” says Josip Kesic, NIAS’ Head of Academic Affairs. “The high quality, ambitious projects that NIAS fellows work on can particularly benefit from the open academic climate at NIAS, which acts as a catalyst for independent curiosity-driven research. We are sure that many exciting interdisciplinary exchanges will occur and that all our fellows’ research will benefit and flourish.”
NIAS Individual Fellowships allow researchers to work on a project of their own choosing for a 5- or 10-month period. Individual researchers are evaluated via an external review process and fellowships are awarded on the basis of the quality and innovative value of the research proposal. The success rate for Individual NIAS fellowship applications is about ten percent.
Kesic: “The end of the academic year is always a time of mixed feelings. Although there is an element of sadness as we bid farewell to our current fellows, we are also looking forward to meeting our new fellows after the summer.”
About NIAS-KNAW
NIAS – one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) –provides a physical and intellectual space for advanced research in the humanities and social sciences that is driven by curiosity and cross-discipline collaboration. It offers temporary fellowships to international and Dutch scholars. NIAS is located in Amsterdam.
List of Fellows 2019/20
- Barðdal, Jóhanna (Ghent University, Belgium) | Historical Linguistics
- Bayraktar, Nilgun (California College of the Arts, USA) | Film Studies
- Bertossi, Christopher (French Institute of International Relations) | Sociology | Guest of the Director
- Bod, Rens (University of Amsterdam) | Digital Humanities
- Caswell, Hal (University of Amsterdam) | Biology | Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship
- Corrias, Luigi (VU University Amsterdam) | Law
- Dahl, Hanne Marlene (Roskilde University, Denmark) | Feminist Political Science and Sociology
- Dijk, Wilco van (Leiden University)| Social and Economic Psychology
- Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (University of Manchester, UK) | History
- Elk, Michiel van (University of Amsterdam) | Social Psychology
- Flohr, Miko (Leiden University) | Classical Archaeology
- Kaika, Maria (University of Amsterdam) | Planning
- Kistner, Ulrike (University of Pretoria, South Africa) | Psychoanalytic Theory
- Klausen, Susanne (Carleton University, Canada) | History
- Kleinhans, Maarten G. (Utrecht University) | Physical Geography
- Kluwer, Esther (Utrecht University/Radboud University Nijmegen) | Social Psychology
- Krause, Jana (University of Amsterdam) | Political Science
- Krause, Kristine (University of Amsterdam) | Anthropology
- Künkler, Mirjam (University of Bordeaux, France) | Islamic Studies
- Lok, Matthijs (University of Amsterdam) | History
- Mark, James (University of Exeter, UK) | History
- Mrazek, Rudolf (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) | History
- Ndjio, Basile (University of Douala, Cameroon) | Anthropology
- Plumley, Yolanda (University of Exeter, UK) | Musicology
- Ramakers, Bart (University of Groningen) | Dutch Literature
- Rouhana, Nadim N. (Tufts University, USA) | International Relations
- Rutten, Ellen (University of Amsterdam) | Russian and Slavic Studies
- Spiller, Henry (University of California, Davis, USA) | Musicology
- Thakur, Vineet (Leiden University) | International Relations
- Ţigriş, Simona-Luiza (University of Bucharest, Romania) | Pragmatics
- Tulviste, Tiia (University of Tartu, Finland) | Developmental Psychology
- Veldhorst, Natascha (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Cultural Studies
- Vliet, Liesbeth van (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research) | Health Communication | L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship
- Wynsberghe, Aimee van (Technical University of Delft) | Ethics of Technology | L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship
- Yardımcı-Geyikçi, Şebnem (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey) | Comparative Politics
This list will be completed and finalized in the following months.