Annelien de Dijn is a full professor of modern European political history at the University of Utrecht, where she chairs the Political History research group. Before joining Utrecht University, she was a professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands as well as a NIAS Senior Research Fellow (2015-2016). Her research focuses on the history of political thought in Europe and in the United States, from antiquity to the present. She has a particular interest in the fraught and contested history of freedom in the West. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Cambridge University, the Remarque Institute at NYU.A past recipient of fellowships by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the ISRF, Dr. de Dijn was educated at the University of Leuven in Belgium and at Columbia University.