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Amsterdam School of Historical Studies ASH

ASH dissertation award

The ASH dissertation award is presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. The award is accompanied by a prize of € 500.

Previous award winners are:

2020-2022*

Bob Pierik (History): Urban life on the move: gender and mobility in early modern Amsterdam

*= only one prize was awarded for dissertations completed in the academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022

ASH Dissertation Prize awarded to Bob Pierik

2019-2020

Josephine van den Bent (History) - Mongols in Mamluk Eyes 

Sander Govaerts (History) - Mosasaurs: interactions between armies and ecosystems in the Meuse region, 1250-1850

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2018-2019

Janna Coomans (Medieval History) - In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the Common Good in the Late Medieval Low Counties

2017-2018

Ingrid de Zwarte (History) - The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-45

2016-2017

Frans Camphuijsen (Medieval History) - Scripting Justice. Legal Practice and Communication in the late Medieval law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris

Rianne Hermans (Ancient History) - Latin Cults through Roman Eyes. Myth, Memory and Cult Practice in the Alban Hills

2015-2016

Mònica Colominas Aparicio (Religious Studies) - The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of late Medieval Christian Iberia. Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam

2014-2015

Jaap Cohen (History) - De onontkoombare afkomst van Eli d’Oliveira. Een Portugees-Joodse familiegeschiedenis (also published by Querido; Amsterdam 2015)