The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute 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 of the humanities and social sciences. It is a member of Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) and the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Studies (NetIAS).
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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 scholarship committee. In addition to regular fellowships, NIAS also hosts some special co-sponsored fellowship programmes, some of which are by invitation only. NIAS also hosts theme groups, which bring together scholars of different backgrounds with specific expertise to work together on a daily basis.
Fellows include and have included:
Svetlana Alpers, David E. Apter, Tito Boeri, Gerrit Broekstra, Jaap R. Bruijn, Arif Dirlik, Edgar L. Feige, Lewis Goldberg, Richard Goldstone, Bernd Heine, Martin Hellwig, Anne-Lot Hoek, Ernst Homburg, Henkjan Honing, Fred Inglis, Lisa Jardine, Bruce Kapferer, Ronald Kaplan, David Mitchell, Wolfgang Mommsen, Henry Schvey, Frits van Oostrom, Benjamin Radcliff, Bruce Russett, Hein Schreuder, Alex Verrijn Stuart, Henk Wesseling, Robert S. Wistrich, John Woods, Nasr Abu Zayd, and Gerard de Zeeuw.
The Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (DLF) is granted once a year to a leading scholar working on the interface between the humanities and social sciences on the one hand and the natural and technological sciences on the other.[6]
Forum der letteren (1976) Research Policy in the Humanities of the Netherlands. p. 17
Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes (2001) International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. p. 1615