Dr. Elizabeth Buettner

Biography

Elizabeth Buettner is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College of Columbia University and both her Master's and Doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prior to her current position, she taught at the University of York in England from 2000 to 2013. During the academic year 2012-2013, she held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany, supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Her research has been further propelled by a Senior Research Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz and a Visiting International Fellowship at the University of Exeter. Buettner was also part of a three-year European Commission-funded Horizon 2020 project, 'European Colonial Heritage Modalities Entangled Cities' (ECHOES). Together with colleagues Britta Timm Knudsen, John Oldfield, and Elvan Zabunyan, she co-edited and contributed to a collection titled 'Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in Europe,' published by Routledge in 2022.

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