The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar

Wassenaar

Wassenaar is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. A fairly affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies 10 km north of that city on the N44 highway near the North Sea coast. It is part of the Haaglanden region...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, is an independent research institute

Research institute

A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research...

 in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The Institute offers advanced research facility for international scholars of all humanities

Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....

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History

The idea for NIAS was initiated by Dutch linguist E.M. Uhlenbeck

E.M. Uhlenbeck

Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck was a Dutch linguist and Indologist. He was a professor in Javanese at Leiden University.-Family:...

 (1913-2003) in the late 1960s. It was inspired on the concept of the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...

 of Princeton and Stanford. The institute was founded with the support of all Dutch universities, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands...

 (KNAW) in 1970 and welcomed their first fellows in 1971. Since 1988 it has operated under the direction and auspices of the KNAW.

From 2002 until 2010 Wim Blockmans

Wim Blockmans

Wim Pieter Blockmans is Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent. He has been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002...

 has been Rector

Rector

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 of the Institute. Since August 2010 the new Rector is Professor Aafke Hulk. NIAS is a member of Some Institutes for Advanced Study

Some Institutes for Advanced Study

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 (SIAS) and the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Studies (NetIAS).

Fellows

Each year NIAS welcomes around fifty fellows who stay at the institute for five to ten months. Half of the fellows are Dutch, the other half foreign. Fellows are prominent researchers and senior scholars with a PhD and who have made an important contribution in their fields. Applications for most fellowships at NIAS are open to qualified candidates. All fellowships are awarded by the schorlaship committee. In addition to regular fellowships, NIAS also hosts some special fellowship programmes, some of which are by invitation only.

Fellows include and have included:
David E. Apter

David E. Apter

David Ernest Apter was an American political scientist. He was Henry J Heinz Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University.He was born on December 18, 1924...

, Tito Boeri

Tito Boeri

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, Gerrit Broekstra

Gerrit Broekstra

Gerrit Broekstra , is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands.- Biography :Broekstra was born in 1941 in Alkmaar in Holland...

, Jaap R. Bruijn

Jaap R. Bruijn

Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn , is one of the best known and respected Dutch maritime historians. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his retirement in 2003...

, Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik is a historian most known for his works about 20th century Chinese history. Dirlik received a BSc in Electrical Engineering at Robert College, Istanbul in 1964 and a PhD in History at the University of Rochester in 1973.From 1971 until 2001 he stayed as a member of the History faculty...

, Lewis Goldberg

Lewis Goldberg

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, Richard Goldstone

Richard Goldstone

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, Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies.From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. His main focal points in research and teaching are African linguistics, language sociology, grammaticalization theory and language...

, Martin Hellwig, Fred Inglis

Fred Inglis

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the...

, Lisa Jardine

Lisa Jardine

Lisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

, Bruce Kapferer

Bruce Kapferer

Bruce Kapferer is a prominent Australian social anthropologist. He was raised in Sydney, and studied anthropology at the University of Sydney...

, Ronald Kaplan

Ronald Kaplan

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, Frits van Oostrom

Frits van Oostrom

Frits van Oostrom , born in Utrecht, Netherlands, is University Professor for the Humanities at the Utrecht University. In 1999 he was a visiting Professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair. From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study . He was...

, Benjamin Radcliff

Benjamin Radcliff

Benjamin Radcliff is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is also affiliated with the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Higgins Labor Studies Program...

, Bruce Russett

Bruce Russett

Bruce Martin Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Professor in International and Area Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University, and edited the Journal of Conflict Resolution from 1972 to 2009.- Academic career :...

, Alex Verrijn Stuart

Alex Verrijn Stuart

Adolf Alexander Verrijn Stuart was a Dutch computer scientist, and the first Professor in computer science at the Leiden University from 1969 tot 1991.- Biography :...

, Henk Wesseling

Henk Wesseling

Henk Wesseling was born in 1937 in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at Leiden University, and was former Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study between 1995 and 2002.-Bibliography:...

, Robert S. Wistrich

Robert S. Wistrich

‎Robert Solomon Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Wistrich is "a leading scholar of the history of antisemitism."-Early...

, John Woods

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, Nasr Abu Zayd

Nasr Abu Zayd

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, and Gerard de Zeeuw

Gerard de Zeeuw

Gerard de Zeeuw is a Dutch scientist and professor Mathematical modelling of complex social systems at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.- Biography :...

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