Overview
Research themes
Museums and Memorials
- This theme in the Heritage, Memory and Material Culture programme at the University of Amsterdam examines how art, cultural objects and artefacts as well as their stakeholders engage with and give shape to cultural heritage and memory.
Heritage and Conflict
- This theme explores the heritage of conflicts and the memory boom in the present, as well as the activation of heritage and memory as means of conflict resolution
Transnational Memory Narratives
- This theme investigates the dynamics of memory and the politics of narrative, broadly conceived, in relation to identity formation and material culture agencies.
Digitality and E-Memories
- The theme examines digital technologies and they ways in which they influence the production, transmission of and engagement with cultural heritage and memory.
Materiality and Material Culture
- This theme focuses on the documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of materials and material culture varying from archeological sites, (art) object to landscapes.
Programme Structure
Research groups include:- Archaeological Heritage and Contemporary Society
- Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes and Natural Environments
- Archives and Records in Transition
- Books as Cultural Intermediary
- Conflict Archaeology
- Conserving Wax-Resin Lined Paintings
- Contemporary Art Conservation
- Digital Heritage
- Dynamics of Memory: WWII Heritage & Memory
- Explokart: Exploration of Maps and Mappings, 16th-20th Centuries
- Global Trajectories of Thought and Memory: Art and the Global South
- Looted Art: Provenance Research and Restitution in the Netherlands
- Making Memories: European Elites, Country House Cultures & Identities
- Materiality in the Study and Conservation of Cultural Heritage
- Museums and Interpretation: Visitors’ Narratives, Objects and Digital Tools
- Oral History & Transitional Justice
- Post Memories: Intergenerational Narratives of Conflict
- Postcolonial Heritages and Diasporic Memories
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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History Museum Studies View 6 other PhDs in History in NetherlandsAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Doctoral research can only take place under the supervision of a professor associated with the UvA. You cannot take your application further until a professor has agreed to take you on as a PhD candidate.
- For admission to the doctoral programme you must have a Dutch Master's degree (or an old-style initial university degree). If you have a different Dutch qualification or a foreign qualification, you must apply for an exemption from the educational requirement before applying for admission.
Tuition Fee
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International
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 EUR per year during 48 months. -
EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 EUR per year during 48 months.
- Candidates may be employed by the Faculty of Humanities or they may be self-funded and automatically receive a full tuition waiver.
Living costs for Amsterdam
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