Sietske van der Veen is a historian of Jewish history. Her research interests include Jewish places and spaces, perceptions of Jewish heritage, Jewish/non-Jewish encounters, antisemitism, Jewish elites, and Jewish belonging in the modern period. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam within the project ‘Jewish Urban Cultures’ led by Professor Bart Wallet. At the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies she is involved in the development of a centre of expertise in Jewish Urban Studies. Moreover, she teaches the course Academic Skills to first-year students of Hebrew and Arabic. In her research she focuses on Jewish and non-Jewish perceptions and conservation of (current and former) Jewish sites and quarters in European cities after 1945, using Amsterdam as a case study. Additionally, she is affiliated with the European collaborative research project ‘Jewish Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People’ led by Professor Abigail Green at the University of Oxford.