Social Sciences, list of faculty

Suzanne Aalberse (PhD, University of Amsterdam) teaches Linguistics at AUC. She is Assistant Professor at the department of Dutch linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She studied at the University of Wisconsin ...

Dr. Erik Ansink teaches the courses Environmental Economics and Sustainable City at AUC. Ansink is an experienced researcher and lecturer in environmental economics. His main interests are cooperation and conflict in ...

Eric Bartelsman co-teaches the courses Introduction to Social Policy, Fundamentals in Micro- and Macroeconomics, and Global Economics at AUC. He is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the ...

Lianne Boer is Assistant Professor of Transnational Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law. Following a BSc in Political Science at Radboud ...

Dr. Chiara Bozzacchi is the coordinator and teacher of the course Emphatic Brain at AUC. She is currently completing a new project on social cognition at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Funded by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emma Cohen de Lara (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is senior lecturer in political theory and research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (www.aissr.nl). Before coming to AUC, she taught ...

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci is professor of Law and professor of Economics (by courtesy) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, a fellow of the Tinbergen ...

Gareth Davies teaches the course on EU Law 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 ...

Hilla Dayan is a political sociologist and lecturer at Amsterdam University College, teaching Global Politics, The Middle East Today, Comparative Democracy and Sociology of the Other. Her research is in the fields of ...

Pedram Dibazar is a lecturer at AUC (since September 2015) and a tutor (since November 2016). As a lecturer at AUC, he is currently involved in teaching Introduction to Cities and Cultures, Digital Anthropology and ...

Dr. Melanie Eijberts teaches The Global Identity Experience. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (summa cum laude; major tracks: anthropology, psychology, sociology) from University College Utrecht and a ...

Chris Elbers teaches the course Advanced Macroeconomics at AUC. He is holder of the Desmond Tutu Chair for Youth, Sports, and Reconciliation in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Vrije ...

Thijs Etty teaches Environmental Policy and Law, and is a tutor at AUC. He is a Lecturer and Researcher in European Law and Transnational Environmental Governance at the VU University Amsterdam, where he is ...

Dr. Sennay Ghebreab teaches Information Lab and the theme course Introduction to Information, Communication and Cognition. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Psychology Institute of the University of ...

Richard Godijn teaches the course “Perception & Attention” at AUC. He has obtained his PhD from the VU University Amsterdam and has worked as a post-doc at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois. His ...

Dr. Anne de Graaf is Chief Diversity Officer at the UvA. Before this, she was Head of Studies for Academic Core and Outreach Coordinator at Amsterdam University College (AUC). She has taught a variety of courses and ...

Dr. Julia Hoffmann is AUC's Head of Studies for the Social Sciences.