Dr. Elizabeth Buettner

Biography

Elizabeth Buettner is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and both an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Buettner taught at the University of York in England from 2000 to 2013, and during the 2012-2013 academic year, she held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany, in conjunction with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Her research has been supported by a Senior Research Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, as well as a Visiting International Fellowship at the University of Exeter. Currently, she is part of a three-year European Commission-funded Horizon 2020 Project called ‘European Colonial Heritage Modalities Entangled Cities’ (ECHOES). Buettner co-edited and contributed to a collection titled 'Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in Europe' published by Routledge in 2022, in collaboration with Britta Timm Knudsen, John Oldfield, and Elvan Zabunyan.

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