The University of Amsterdam, abbreviated UvA, is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Municipal authorities established it in 1632, and it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlands still in operation. It is the largest university in the country by enrollment, with more than 44,000 students, and it is one of two large publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It is organised into seven faculties, among them Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, and Law, and it belongs to the League of European Research Universities.
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The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA; Dutch: Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Wikipedia: Johannes Fabian
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Johannes Fabian (19 May 1937-6 January 2026) was a German anthropologist who was professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
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She is the Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam.
Sandra Harding (Wikipedia)
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Harding held Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Amsterdam (1987), University of Costa Rica (1990), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) (1993), and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1994).
Wikipedia: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
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More than 23,000 Google Scholar citations (2026) make him one of the most cited scholars in globalization studies. == Early life and education == Nederveen Pieterse studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees.
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He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1999.
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Instead, the Amsterdam city council appointed him as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam in 1918.
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