Published 12 May 2009
AUC's Head of Studies (Academic Core) and Curriculum Manager is Deirdre Klein Bog, MA. Before joining Amsterdam University College as its Academic Coordinator, Deirdre Klein Bog was Deputy Director (Management) of the Amsterdam Business School. She joined the business school at its beginning in 2001. Before this she had been head of the Financial English Department of the Amsterdam Academy (a joint venture of Hogeschool Holland and VU University Amsterdam). Originally from Northern Ireland, Deirdre Klein Bog obtained her MA in History and Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin, and her postgraduate degree in education (PGCE) from the University of Greenwich in London. Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8785
- Belén Arias García is a Lecturer in BA Courses Spanish Proficiency at the University of Amsterdam.
Belén Arias García obtained her Master's in Spanish Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She has worked since February 2005 as a Lecturer in BA Courses Spanish Proficiency at the University of Amsterdam, developing various courses, syllabi and digital environments for teaching Spanish as a second language.
- Ellen Bal is a tenured lecturer and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam.
She studied History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She received her doctoral degree from the Erasmus University in 2000 with a dissertation on ethnicity and minorities in Bangladesh.
Since 2000 she has also worked on migration, transnationalism and the Indian diaspora in Surinam and the Netherlands. Ellen Bal specializes in South Asia, with a particular focus on Bangladesh. Her main fields of research cover ethnicity and identity formation, indigenous peoples, migration and transnationalism, youth and human security.
- Sander Bais Obtained a bachelor and master degree in Physics from Delft University, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from University of California at Santa Cruz in 1978.
After holding research positions in Philadelphia, Leuven and CERN, he first came back to Utrecht and became a full professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1985. There he was a longtime Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. At this moment he is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute for complexity.
He has written about a hundred research papers on fundamental problems in theoretical physics, varying from particle physics to quantum computers. He is well known for his active involvement in popularization of the exact sciences, giving many popular lectures and has published two books with Harvard University Press: The Equations; Icons of knowledge and Very Special relativity; A visual guide. Recently he held visiting professorships in Australia, the US, and Japan.
- Johan van Benthem is a University Professor of Logic at the University of Amsterdam, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Weilun Professor of Humanities at Tsinghua University Beijing.
His main current interests are logics of information flow, rational agency, and intelligent interaction. In 1996 he received the NWO Spinoza Award for his work on logic, language, and computation.
For more information about Johan van Benthem, please see link below.
- Jan Bouwe van den Berg graduated in both Mathematics and Physics, and continued his studies at Leiden University to obtain a PhD in Mathematics. He subsequently moved to Nottingham (UK) as a Research Fellow.
Currently, he is Professor of Differential Equations and Applications at the VU University Amsterdam, developing mathematical methods to understand the nonlinear dynamics of pattern formation. Furthermore, he is the Director of Education at the Department of Mathematics, where he also teaches a variety of courses at the Bachelor and Master level.
For more information about Jan Bouwe van den Berg, please see link below.
- Jan Brandts obtained his PhD in numerical mathematics from Utrecht University in 1995, lectured at the Universities of Bristol (England) and Jyvaskyla (Finland) and performed research as visiting scholar at the University of Kiel (Germany) and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
While working at the University of New South Wales in Sydney he was offered a Research Fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, which he initially spent at Utrecht University and finally, at the University of Amsterdam, where he has been employed since summer 2002.
For more information about Jan Brandts, please see link below.
- Eddy de Bruyn (PhD, Cornell University) is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
His main current interests are (early) adolescent behaviors, in particular relationships between popularity, social dominance, bullying and victimization, and social and academic behavior. He is also developing a theoretical model that incorporates adolescent behaviors in an evolutionary psychological framework.
For more information about Eddy de Bruyn, please see link below.
- Melanie Eijberts holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (summa cum laude; major tracks: anthropology, psychology, sociology) from University College Utrecht and a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. She has received her Master of Science degree (cum laude) in Comparative Studies of Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Multiculturalism from the University of Utrecht in May 2006.
Currently she is pursuing a PhD degree at the department of Culture, Organization, and Management at the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Halleh Ghorashi she is investigating the sense of belonging and participation / integration strategies of women of Moroccan and Turkish descent in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
- Franziska Heinloth studied Mathematics in Göttingen and Bonn and obtained her PhD in Mathematics from Utrecht University. She subsequently moved to Essen as a postdoctoral researcher.
She teaches calculus at AUC and works at the VU University Amsterdam as a lecturer and study advisor.
- Jeroen de Kloet is Assistant Professor Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam and works on the cultural implications of globalization in China.
He recently co-edited the volume "Cosmopatriots - On Distant Belonging and Close Encounters" (Rodopi), and has published on popular music, cinema and new technologies in China. His current NWO funded research project is titled "Celebrations and Contestations of Chineseness - The Beijing 2008 Olympics and 21st Century Imaginations of Place, Culture and Identity."
- Stefan Landsberger holds the Olfert Dapper Chair of Contemporary Chinese Culture at the University of Amsterdam and is Associate Professor Contemporary Chinese State and Society at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University.
Landsberger has one of the largest private collections of Chinese propaganda posters in the world. He has published widely on topics related to Chinese (visual) propaganda - most recently, Chinese Posters (Prestel, 2009) - and maintains an extensive website exclusively devoted to this genre of political communications (http://chineseposters.net).
- Before joining Amsterdam University College as Coordinator Academic English, Rebecca Lindner was Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University (USA), where she taught literature and women's studies.
She holds an MA in Literary Studies and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK). Her main research and teaching interests are in early modern literature, reader reception, women's journal writing, and academic English.
Elisabeth Meyer studied at the Eberhardt Karls University Tübingen (Germany) and the University of Amsterdam. She graduated in German Philology and Book- and Information Science.
Currently she is finishing her PhD on Medieval Bible Translation in the Faculty of Theology at the Free University Amsterdam. She has been teaching German at different levels and for different purposes (business, academic etc.) for several Language Institutes for many years. Since 2006 she has taught various courses at the German Department, University of Amsterdam.
Her main fields of interests are Medieval religious literature and German as a second language.
- Dr. Petra Poelmans, Teacher Dutch as a second language. and Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Petra Poelmans studied Dutch linguistics and literature at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. She received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam on the topic ‘second language listening comprehension'. She has teaching experience in the fields of didactics, language policy, Dutch as a second language, and others. Petra Poelmans is also employed as a consultant on issues related to language acquisition and integration.
- Esther Quaedackers is a junior lecturer in Big History.
She obtained her MSc in Architecture with honours from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2006. After graduating, she started organizing and teaching Big History courses at the University of Amsterdam and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Esther is currently working on a PhD thesis on the links between power structures and the structures people build, seen from a world historical perspective.
- Bob Rink is Assistant Professor in Mathematical Analysis at VU University Amsterdam.
He obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Utrecht University in 2003. His thesis provided a mathematical proof of a conjecture in Statistical Mechanics. Since then he has been an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London and a visiting scholar at MSRI Berkeley. He is currently holder of an NWO Veni grant, and is investigating "Lattice Dynamical Systems''.
For more information about Bob Rink, please see link below.
- Fred Spier is Senior Lecturer in Big History.
Since 1994, he has organized the annual UvA Big History course, and since 2003 he has also taught a Big History course at the Eindhoven University of Technology. First trained as a biochemist at the University of Leiden with research experience in plant genetic engineering and the synthesis of oligonucleotides, Spier subsequently studied Cultural Anthropology and Social History at the Free University Amsterdam (M.A. cum laude), while he obtained his Ph.D. (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam.
Spier performed a ten year study on the long-term development of religion and politics in Peru from a world historical perspective, which led to the publication of two books. He is currently finishing a book outlining a novel approach to Big History.
For more information about Fred Spier and his website about Big History, please see links below.
- Eliza Steinbock completed her final year of high school (in Louisville, Kentucky) while studying abroad in at the international Mahindra United World College of India, becoming one of 98 pioneer students. She returned to the United States to study a wide-ranging liberal arts program (visual arts, literature, film, philosophy) at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, obtaining her Bachelors degree with an emphasis in gender and sexuality studies. She then received a Masters in Cultural Studies (with distinction) at the University of Leeds, UK. In 2005 she enrolled in the doctoral program at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam) and in 2006 was awarded the position of ASCA research fellow. Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary benefits of working between transgender studies and film studies by developing their shared, although differently inflected, concepts, such as image, narrative, and the cut.
Eliza has lectured in Amsterdam at the Media Studies Department of the UvA and at the School for International Training's study abroad program "International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender." Her fields of interest include aesthetics, visual culture, corporeal/material feminist theory, (post)modernism, Continental philosophy, the Frankfurt School, transgender studies, queer theory, and pornography. She has advised students on topics such as body semiotics, transgender politics, alt-porn, and sexual performances.
For more information on Eliza Steinbock, please see the link below.
- Christa Stevens studied French in Nijmegen and in Paris and obtained her PhD in the Humanities from Amsterdam University.
She taught French literature, Literary Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, Utrecht University and the School of Arts in Maastricht, and was a visiting lecturer at the Université Paris 8. She also worked for several international cultural organisations (European Writer's Congress in Brussels, La Maison Africaine and Africa in the Picture in Amsterdam). Her research interests are in French postcolonial literature (Africa, Maghreb, Caribbean) and multicultural France.
- Thijl Sunier studied Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam, completed his PhD thesis entitled: `Islam in Beweging. Turkse jongeren en islamitische organisaties' (Islam in Motion. Turkish young people and Islamic organisations) in 1996.
He participated in research on inter-ethnic relations in a post-war neighbourhood of Haarlem, and conducted research among Turkish youth and Turkish Islamic organisations in the Netherlands and comparative research among Turkish youth in France, Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands, international comparative research on nation building and multiculturalism in France, The Netherlands and Turkey, and research on Islam and modernity.
He was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam until his appointment as VISOR professor of Islam in European Societies at the VU University in Amsterdam (www.visor.vu.nl). Presently he is preparing research on styles of popular religiosity among young Muslims in Europe, religious leadership, and nation-building and Islam in Europe.
He is a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), a member of the board of the Interacademic School for Islam Studies in the Netherlands (ISIS). He is editor of the anthropological journal Etnofoor, and a member of the board of the Dutch Anthropological Association (ABV).
- AUC Lecturer, Academic Core
Lotte obtained her MA in English Literature and Linguistics at the VU University Amsterdam. During her degree she also studied in Wisconsin, USA, and Cardiff, Wales. She recently successfully completed her PhD in Contrastive Corpus Linguistics at the VU University in Amsterdam. Her main research and teaching interests are contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, writing skills and academic skills in general. In addition to her job as a lecturer at AUC, Lotte is also a freelance language teacher and has been teaching a wide range of English language courses at various companies and research institutions.
- Mariëtte Willemsen (1960) studied Linguistics in Amsterdam and Philosophy in Amsterdam and Tübingen.
She did her PhD at the VU University Amsterdam on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Since 1997, she has lectured in the department of philosophy at VU University Amsterdam. Her areas of specialisation are: history of philosophy, philosophy of emotions, Socratic method and ethics. In September 1999, she was teacher of the year at VU University Amsterdam.
- Liesbeth Zack is Assistant Professor of Arabic language and linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.
Liesbeth Zack obtained her MA in Arabic with honours from the University of Amsterdam. After graduating, she worked for eight years at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo as Assistant Arabic Studies. Since 2006, she has taught Arabic proficiency and Arabic linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009, she defended her PhD thesis about the dialect of Egypt in the 17th century. Her research interests are Arabic dialectology, written sources for the dialects of Egypt, and sociolinguistics of the Arab world.
For more information about Liesbeth Zack, please see link below.
- AUC Lecturer, Social Sciences.
Kathryn obtained her BS in Management and Business, with minors in French and International Affairs, at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York.
She spent her junior year abroad studying in Paris, France, and after graduating from Skidmore worked in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. From 2001 - 2003, Kathryn was an Associate Analyst in the Education and Family Support group at Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kathryn obtained an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy from the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford in 2005 and completed her DPhil in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford in 2009.
During her time in Oxford she was a tutor for 3rd year undergraduates studying social policy and was also a Junior Dean at Trinity College.
- Anja Zimmermann did her undergraduate studies (Vordiplom) in Psychology at the University of Würzburg in Germany (2000 - 2002). She went on to do her MSc in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (awarded distinction) at the University of Kent, UK. She obtained a PhD from the same department in 2007. Her thesis entitled "Ingroup wrongdoing: Guilt and moral responsibility in intergroup relations," was supervised by Prof. Dominic Abrams.
In 2007, she was a post doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (funded by a NWO Rubicon grant). She currently works on the implications of perceived terrorist threat for group-based emotions and interracial attitudes.
Source: AUC
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