Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Louise Vigeant is AUC's Head of Studies (Social Sciences) and Senior Tutor.
Louise Vigeant has a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University, USA. She also holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an MA in linguistics from Stanford University, USA, and an MA in philosophy from Carleton University, Canada. She has extensive teaching experience at universities in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and political theory.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8791
- Saskia Baas (PhD, University of Amsterdam) teaches International Crimes and Violence and Conflict at AUC. She is also a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches on conflict and governance.
Her research focuses on the dynamics of civil wars and her PhD dissertation covered the motivations of civilians to join armed movements in Sudan. Prior to joining the AUC, she has worked for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan , for Médecins Sans Frontières and for the Carter Center Democracy Programme in Sudan.
- Eric Bartelsman teaches the theme course Introduction to Social Policy at AUC. He is Professor in Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He studied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD from Columbia University.
He has served as economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, as advisor to the CPB, Netherlands, and as Head of the Economic Research Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. In 2007 and 2008 he served as a member of the Netherlands Council of Economic Advisors (REA). His research focus is on the sources of productivity growth, both from a micro and macro point of view. Bartelsman is a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and IZA Bonn.
- Joost Beuving (MSc Wageningen University, PhD University of Amsterdam) was trained in tropical agronomy and social forestry. Later he became interested in economic and social anthropology in which he specialized as a (post) doctoral researcher. His main research interest is the study of globalization and economic life in Africa, and he carried out fieldwork in various African countries. He published journal articles on entrepreneurship, Euro-African trade, and migration, and reviewed academic books on a variety of topics.
He is a member of the advisory editorial board of the academic journal 'Africa'.
At AUC he teaches Big Questions in Society (academic core), Community and Society in a Globalised World (SSC), and Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (SSC).
- Björn Brügemann teaches Macroeconomics at AUC. He is Associate Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He studied Economics at the University of Bonn and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was previously an assistant professor at Yale University.
His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics. The focus of his research is the development of equilibrium models of the labor market to better understand the effects of labor market policy as well as the nature of macroeconomic fluctuations in the labor market. The focus of his research is the development of equilibrium models of the labor market to better understand the effects of labor market policy as well as the nature of macroeconomic fluctuations in the labor market. Brügemann is a Research Fellow of IZA Bonn.
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Eddy de Bruyn (PhD, Cornell University) teaches Basic Research Methods and Statistics, Psychology as well as Developmental Psychology at AUC. He 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, 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.
- Vessela Chakarova teaches International Relations Theory and Practice, International Political Economy and Globalization. She received a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from Old Dominion University and an MA in International Relations from Sofia University.
She has extensive teaching experience at universities in the Netherlands and the United States (Introduction to International Politics, Model United Nations and Research Methods, among others). She has also worked for the Enlargement Directorate of the European Commission.
Her research focuses mainly on international cooperation, international organisations, global governance and power dynamics (hegemony). She is also interested in energy policy and European politics.
- Ioana Ciobanasu teaches International Economic Law at AUC. She had been teaching different classes in International Economic Law to master students for the past 5 years at the VU University Amsterdam. She was also invited as a visiting lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
She obtained her master degrees (cum laude) in International Business Law at the VU University Amsterdam. Her Ph.D. title is pending at the same university. Her main interests range from the field of international monetary affairs and the International Monetary Fund to the Bretton Woods system at large. She is interested in both the institutional aspects of the system, i.e. the other international economic institutions, the WTO and the World Bank, as well as the economic phenomena underlying their activity fields. She developed a particular interest in international financial markets in the aftermath of the recent global economic crisis.
- Gareth Davies teaches the theme course Introduction to Social Policy at AUC. He is professor of European Law at the law faculty of the VU University Amsterdam. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Groningen, and a barrister in London. He has also taught EU law as a guest or visiting lecturer at various universities in Europe and Canada, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University.
His research interests are in the relationship between market regulation and public services such as healthcare and education, and in anti-discrimination law. For more information about Gareth Davies, please see link below.
- Hilla Dayan teaches International Comparative Democracy and International Relations Theory and Practice at AUC. She studied comparative and English literature at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and completed her graduate studies in the United States, obtaining an MA in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D in political sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Fulfilling the entrepreneurial and politically engaged New School spirit of active participation, she has over ten years of professional experience leading projects at various non-profit organizations. She has taken positions as a Parliamentary assistant, a policy advisor, and lobby and advocacy specialist at, among other organizations, the Association for Civil Rights-Israel, Amnesty International-USA, and United Civilians for Peace, a coalition of Oxfam-Novib, ICCO, Cordaid and IKV-Pax Christi in the Netherlands. She is co-founder of gate48, platform for critical Israelis in the Netherlands, active in the struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories.
Critical social and political theory and democracy/dictatorship theory are fields covered in her analysis of contemporary political regimes. She published articles and reports on feminism and political violence, identity and exile, war crimes and corporate social responsibility. Belonging to a generation of scholars developing new analytical approaches to the study of the Israeli occupation, her work has been recently featured in an edited volume titled The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, published by Zone Books in the United States.
- 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.
- Thijs Etty teaches Environmental Policy and Law at AUC. He is a Lecturer and Researcher in European Law and Transnational Environmental Governance at the VU University Amsterdam, where he is cross-appointed between the Law Faculty and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). He teaches a variety of courses at bachelors and masters level at the VU law faculty, in the Environment and Resource Management Master (ERM), and the VU Earth & Economics Bachelor. He also teaches European Environmental Law & Policy in Leiden University European Union Studies Master. Previously, he taught at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), as a Lecturer/Researcher with the Amsterdam Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability (ACELS) and the Research Unit for Biotechnology Regulation Amsterdam (RUBRA).
His research interests are in environmental law and policy at the EU, international and national level; transnational governance beyond the state; and the regulation of novel ‘risky’ technologies such as nano-technology and biotechnology, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture and food. He conducts research in all these fields, both academic fundamental and applied research for clients including EU, national and regional government bodies, civil society organizations and environmental NGOs. He has served as expert advisor to various EU and national government bodies, mainly on biotechnology regulation questions, and runs an independent legal consultancy specializing in environmental law and biotechnology governance.
Thijs is Editor-in-Chief of the law journal Transnational Environmental Law (TEL), published by Cambridge University Press. Until 2010, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of European Environmental Law (YEEL), at Oxford University Press.
For more information about Thijs Etty, please see link below.
- Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D. (Amsterdam 2001), is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. She specialises in Africa and South West Indian Ocean studies, with a particular focus on Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius. Dr. Evers’ principal areas of research cover the anthropology of children, (forced) migration, slavery, memory and cognition, frontier societies within the context of globalisation, natural resource management, poverty and sustainable development. She is Programme Director of the NWO-Wotro funded Integrated Programme (September 2011- September 2015) mentioned below. Sandra Evers is also chair of the International Anthropology of Children Working Group which convenes in monthly seminar meetings
- Sennay Ghebreab teaches the Brain Lab and the theme course Information, Communication, Cognition at AUC. He studied Information Systems at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD from the same University in 2002 in medical image analysis and retrieval. Part of the research was carried out at Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT, USA).
Subsequently, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Erasmus MC, University Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), where his research interest gradually shifted from medical imaging to cognitive vision in psychology. In 2005, he returned to the University of Amsterdam where he is currently working at the Psychology Institute (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) and the Informatics Institute (Faculty of Science) in the interdisciplinary field of brain, cognition and information processing.
- Jan Willem Gunning teaches International Trade, Growth and Development at AUC. He is professor of development economics at the VU University Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID).
He has been a staff member of the World Bank and professor at the University of Oxford where he directed the Centre for the Study of African Economies. His research interests include poverty dynamics, impact evaluation, and the effect of risk on growth in rural societies. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auvergne (France) for his leading role in economic research on Africa.
- Bart van Heerikhuizen teaches Classical and Modern Sociological Thought at AUC. He studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD from the same university in 1987.
From 1998 to 2002 he was the chairman of the Dutch Sociological Association and he is currently the editor of the Dutch sociology magazine, Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift. He was shortlisted for the University of Amsterdam Teacher of the Year Award in 2009.
- Stefan Hochguertel teaches Fundamentals of Micro- and Macro-Economics at AUC. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He studied economics at the universities of Bonn and Munich (Germany), and received a PhD in economics from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He has held research positions at Uppsala University (Sweden) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
His research interests lie in studying household financial and labour market behaviour, and dynamic decisions over time, using microeconomic data and microeconometric methods. Research projects include savings and portfolio choice of households, modelling consumer credit, accumulation of wealth over the life cycle and between generations, self-employment, and issues related to retirement choices.
He is affiliated with the Tinbergen Institute, the Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies, and Netspar. At VU University Amsterdam, he coordinates the MSc Program in Economics.
- Hannie van Hooff teaches Cognitive Psychology at AUC. She is Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Cognitive Psychology.
Hannie van Hooff obtained her BSc and PhD in Psychophysiology at Tilburg University. She then moved to the UK where she worked as a senior lecturer in Psychology at Solent University (Southampton), Portsmouth University, and Kent University (Canterbury), respectively. In 2009, she returned to The Netherlands to join the Department of Cognitive Psychology at the VU University Amsterdam. Her main research expertise lies in the area of event-related potential (ERP) research (a brain activity measure derived from scalp-recorded EEG). Hannie uses ERPs to investigate (a) the underlying mechanisms of memory and forgetting, and (b) the way in which emotional information from the environment guides our attention.
- Jacob Jordaan teaches International Trade, Growth and Development at AUC. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2004.
He is currently working as tenured assistant professor at the department of economics of the VU University Amsterdam, where he teaches courses in development economics and international economics. His main research interests include the operations and effects of multinational enterprises in developing countries, the role of technology and externalities in processes of economic growth and relations between processes of industry location and economic development. His latest book, entitled "Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Externalities", presenting a variety of evidence and analysis of FDI spillovers in manufacturing industries in Mexico, came out earlier this year.
- Olaf Koeneman teaches Linguistics at AUC. He is assistant professor at the department of Dutch Linguistics. He obtained his PhD in 2000 with a study of verbal syntax in primarily Germanic languages.
Before coming to the University of Amsterdam, he carried out post-doc projects at Groningen University and the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. Currently, he is responsible for linguistics courses in the Dutch department and for carrying out research into syntactic and morphological variation.
- Maxim Kupovykh teaches Classical and Modern Sociological Theory (with Dr. Bart van Heerikhuizen) and Comparative Modern Societies at AUC. He is also a lecturer at the University of Leiden, where he teaches on history and sociology of science.
He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Before moving to the Netherlands, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and, most recently, was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Finland). His teaching and research interests include classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of media, art and cinema; history and theory of nationalism and empire; and the social and political history of Russian/Soviet human sciences and intellectuals.
- Tom Lentz teaches Psycholinguistics. Currently, he also works at the Radboud University Nijmegen on the analysis of eye-tracking data in infant speech perception research.
Lentz studied Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Spanish at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his MSc in Artificial Intelligence with distinction in 2006. His thesis was on the algorithmic formalisation of the meaning of verb tenses. Between 2007 and 2011, Tom was a PhD researcher at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He studied the use of phonotactic knowledge in speech perception for both first and second language listeners. He will defend his PhD thesis in December 2011.
- Harro Maas teaches Economic Thought in a Historical Perspective is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics.
He has written extensively in the history of political economy, especially on the Victorians. His book William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) won the Joseph J. Spengler best book award of the History of Economics Society. Presently, he is writing a history of observational practices in economics on a VIDI-grant of the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO). In this project he cooperates with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science at Berlin. For more information about Harro Maas, please see link below.
- Niels van Manen teaches Risk Management at the AUC. He is Postdoctoral Researcher and Course Convenor at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics.
Niels van Manen obtained his MA in Modern History and PGCE in History Teaching at the University of Amsterdam. He taught at the Amsterdam International Community School, before moving to the UK in 2006 where he completed an MA in Eighteenth Century Studies (distinction) and a PhD in Medical History (funded by the Wellcome Trust) at the University of York. In 2010/11, he held the Economic History Society's Postan Fellowship at the University of Manchester, where he investigated labour regulation and technology transfer in nineteenth century Europe.
His current research focuses on spatial parameters of risk and ill-health, including the mapping of urban fires and its impact on insurance practices since 1850.
- Kenneth Manusama teaches International Law as well as Human Rights Law and Politics at AUC. He is an Assistant Professor of International Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
After obtaining his PhD in International Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he has taught international law at several Dutch universities, as well as New York University. He obtained practical experience at a law firm in New York and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has engaged in entrepreneurial activities as well. His general field of interest lies in international peace and security and human rights, but focuses on the various aspects of piracy and the role of legal advisers in foreign policy.
- J. L. Moraga obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from University Carlos III Madrid in 1997. Before moving to the Netherlands, he spent one year as a post-doc at the University of Copenhagen. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the Tinbergen Institute. In 2005 he moved to the University of Groningen where he has been Research Director of the Institute of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Currently he is Professor of Microeconomics at the Free University Amsterdam.
Research Interests
In addition to the study of the market imperfections generated by transaction costs, he works on energy economics, two-sided markets, advertising and R&D networks. In the last few years, he has been the main investigator of a EU-financed project on search and switching costs. The project aims at a better understanding of competition in markets where prices are not perfectly visible for consumers (imperfect price information), or where consumers experience psychological or monetary costs when they change among brands. The project contributes, on the one hand, to the elaboration of theory and, on the other hand, to the development of econometric techniques to estimate models with this type of transaction costs.
- Peter Mulder teaches Urban Economics at AUC. He is assistant professor at the Department of Spatial Economics of VU University Amsterdam. Previously, he has worked in the Netherlands at the Institute for Environmental Studies of VU University and CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis; in Austria atthe International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in Mozambique at the Ministry of Planning & Development and the Ministry of Energy; and in the USA at Purdue University.
His research interests include the economics of cities and regions, the role of culture and space in economic processes, economic development in Mozambique, and energyeconomics.
- Pál Nyiri (CSc, Moscow State University) teaches Community and Society in a Globalised World. He is Professor of History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit. His research interests include Chinese nationalism; Chinese migration and overseas Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia; tourism in China and Russia; migrants, migration policy and xenophobia in Europe; history of science in the Soviet Union; and comparative post-socialism.
His recent books include Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China and, with Joana Breidenbach, Seeing Culture Everywhere.
Nyiri's current research focuses on Chinese territorial concessions and migration in Laos and Cambodia. For more information about Pál Nyiri, his work and blogs, please see link below.
- Sander Onderstal teaches Advanced Micro-Economics at AUC. He obtained both his MSc degree in Econometrics and his PhD in Economics from Tilburg University. He received the KVS medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in Economics in the Netherlands for 2001 and 2002. Currently, he is associate professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include auctions, charitable fundraising, competition policy, and experimental economics. For more information about Sander Onderstal, please see link below.
- Jacobijn Sandberg is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research area is technology-enhanced learning. Her PhD The learner in the center (1994) addresses the way in which cognitive tools can enrich the learners’ experience. Jacobijn Sandberg worked on a number of education-related European projects (EAST, LEAST, HUMAN, CREDIT). Besides educational technology she is interested in web technology, social media, affective computing and mobile systems. Her current research project is Learning English on the mobile. The project is funded by the Dutch organization for innovation in education Kennisnet and is a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam and EarlyBird (see the link below for more information).
As a lecturer she teaches at both bachelor and master level. Her courses are in the areas of human-computer studies, research methods and advanced knowledge-based systems.
- Melvin L. Schut teaches European and International Institutions and Introduction to Social Policy. Previously at AUC he has also taught Classical and Modern Political Thought. In addition, at Leiden University he teaches Legal Philosophy.
Schut studied law and history at Leiden, intellectual history at Cambridge, and politics at Oxford and the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD with a thesis on Alexis de Tocqueville's conception of freedom.
- Martijn Smit (1980) received a PhD in Economics in 2010, with a thesis on agglomeration and innovation. His research at the department of Spatial Economics of the Vrije Universiteit still focuses on these, as well as on the use of microdata and spatial econometrics. Before becoming an economist, Martijn was trained at the University of Groningen as a geographer (MSc in Cultural Geography) and a latinist (MA in Classics); for both of these, he spent time in Italy. Before joining the VU, Martijn worked for consultancy firm Arcadis and for an EU programme in Denmark.
- Olaf Tans teaches Law & Society and Comparative Constitutional Law at AUC. He is a broadly oriented legal philosopher and political scientist, who publishes both in academic and more popular media.
In general he is interested in the relation between law, ethics and society. More specifically, the central tenet of his research analyses how the relation between law, ethics and society is constructed in constitutional discourse: argumentative communication about foundational norms of society. Around and apart from this central tenet, Tans has published about a wide variety of topics and theorists, such as: constitutional fictions, discourse theory, evolution of law, Stephen Toulmin, European democracy, Ronald Dworkin, the function of preambles, deliberative citizenship, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann and mediation.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 5897
- Seamus Taylor is a Visiting Lecturer from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth where he lectures in Social Policy Studies. Seamus was educated at University College Dublin and the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and graduated from both institutions with distinctions.
Seamus previously worked for over 20 years at senior levels in the British public sector and Civil Service, including as Director of Equality and Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales, and as Director of Strategy at the statutory Commission for Racial Equality. Seamus has served on a number of national bodies in Britain including as: Commissioner on the Commission on the future of multi ethnic Britain; chair of a civil service wide group on diversity in the senior civil service and as a trustee of the Runnymede Trust think tank on cultural diversity and equality.
Seamus was awarded a CBE in the British Honours system in 2010 in recognition of his contribution to equality in the legal system in Britain.
- Bert Tieben lectures Economics from a historical perspective at AUC. He graduated in economics from the University of Groningen and obtained a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His doctoral thesis is entitled The Concept of Equilibrium in Different Economic Traditions: A Historical Investigation (Tinbergen Institute, 2009/Edward Elgar, 2011). His research focuses on the scientific strife between competing schools of thought in economics.
His principal employer is SEO Economic Research where he functions as Head of the Regulation and Competition Policy unit. Formerly, he worked for the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Directorate for Competition Policiy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Dutch Social and Economic Council (SER) in The Hague. He is editor of the Dutch online economic journal TPEdigitaal.
- Hylke Vervaeke teaches the courses 'Brain & Mind' and 'Brain & Behavior' at AUC and is a lecturer of Neuroscience at the VU University Amsterdam, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam.Hylke obtained her MSc in Biomedical Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She then moved to Amsterdam and received her PhD (on the behavioural aspects and social context of ecstasy use) from the University of Amsterdam in 2009. She has also co-authored a book on Drugs and Alcohol ('Drugs en Alcohol. Gebruik, misbruik en verslaving.', 'Drugs and Alcohol. Use, Abuse and Addiction.' by R. Kerssemakers; R. van Meerten; E.A. Noorlander; H. Vervaeke).
- Geert de Vries teaches Big Questions in Society and Advanced Qualitative Research Methods. He is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Among his books are: Het pedagogisch regiem (The Educational Regime,1993); Nederland verandert (The Netherlands are Changing, 2004); and Sociologie, publiek en politiek (Sociology, Public, and Politics, 2009). He has been co-editor of the Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift / Amsterdam Journal of Sociology (1993-2004) and of the Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences (1998-2000). He is a member of the Council of the Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging [Dutch Sociological Association]. In 2004 he won the Teacher of the Year Award of the Faculty of Social Sciences. For more information about Geert de Vries, please see link below.
- Kathryn Zandbergen teaches Big Questions in Society and Comparative Public policy at AUC.
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.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8184
- Anja Zimmermann teaches the Basic Research Methods and Statistics and the Migration, Integration and Diversity courses at AUC. She is a lecturer in Social Sciences and a trained Social Psychologist and Life Coach. Before working at AUC (Academic Core), she worked as a lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University, Wales (2009) and as a free-lance coach and trainer. In addition to her work at AUC, she develops and conducts a range of short-term teaching, coaching and training projects for universities and profit- / non-profit organizations. She did her undergraduate studies (Vordiplom) in Psychology at the University of Würzburg in Germany (2000 - 2002). She obtained her Master's degree in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (2003) and her Phd in Social Psychology (2007) from the University of Kent, UK.
Since 2004, Anja Zimmermann has been giving a range of lectures, seminar series, workshops and trainings on the following topics (in alphabetical order):
- Advanced Statistics and Methodology (at AUC: BRMS I and II)
- Cultural Awareness
- Emotions
- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
- Identity and Diversity
- Leadership and Motivation
- Social Psychology
- Stereotypes, Prejudice & Discrimination
For more information about Anja Zimmermann, please see the link below.
Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8174
- P.W. (Peter-Wim) Zuidhof teaches European Integration at AUC. He teaches courses on Political Economy and European Integration in the department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he is the coordinator of the BA-Program and Member of the Board of Examiners.
P.W. Zuidhof holds an MA. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in New York and an MSc. in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He will be defending his PhD. dissertation “Imagining Markets: the discursive politics of neoliberalism” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Fall of 2011.
His research interest are the history and philosophy of neoliberalism, the rhetoric of economics, poststructural political economy, and the political economy of European Integration.
Source: AUC
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