Pim den Boer (chair of European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam) studied history at the University of Leiden and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study at Wassenaar (1994-95); Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute for European history, New York University (2006). He received the Prix Descartes-Huygens for his oeuvre (Institut de France, Paris 2008). Among his publications: History as a Profession. The Study of History in France 1818-1914 (Princeton University Press 1998).