dhr. prof. dr. H.F.K. (Henk) van Nierop Henk van Nierop took his MA in History (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam in 1974 and his doctorate at Leiden University in 1984. He has been teaching and researching at the University of Amsterdam since 1974. In 1999 he was appointed to the Chair of Early Modern History. He was a visiting professor at Boston University in 1986-87 and at the University of Minnesota in 1996. From 2000 to 2008 he served as Director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age. He is an editor of the series Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age at Amsterdam University Press. Since 2009 he is Chair of the Department of History, Archaeology and Area Studies.