Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations…

Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities. He currently serves a three-year term (2025–8) as academic director of the Leiden University Institute for History. In 2024, he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Federico Dragoni is a postdoc at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Aljosa Sorgo is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Laura Migliori is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Ali is a PhD student at the Centre for Linguistics.

Zifan Meng is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Devon Graves is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Andreas Krogull is a postdoc at the Centre for Linguistics.

Marion Elenbaas is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tony Foster is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Nathalie Brusgaard is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Comparative Urban History at the Institute for History.

Sarah Nelson is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History, and works on the history of US empire, global governance, and decolonization.

PhD candidate of ACPA/ docARTES programme.

Harry Buckoke is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Jelena Prokic is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). Since September 2024, Jelena Prokic has also been the Head of the Digital Humanities and AI Lab at the Faculty of H…

Jan Jansen is Assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political…

Bert Botma is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in phonology and in overlapping areas of phonetics and morphology. His main research interest is the internal structure of segments and syllables. He works on a range of languages, including (Old) English, Dutch, Nivkh…

Natalia Donner is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities (International Studies, Latin America area specialization) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

I am a South African IR scholar whose research interest is questioning Western-centric narratives and making sense of international relations from the perspectives of the global South, particularly Africa. Before joining Leiden University in 2017, I was based at the University of Cape Town, where I…

Luisella Caon is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Didem Yerli is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Marcel IJsselstijn is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Margaretha Folmer is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Interested? Would you like to know more about this master's programme? Please visit the website for prospective students. Specialisations Culture and Politics  European Union Studies Global Conflict in the Modern Era  Global Order in Historical Perspective  Global Political Economy Website…

The Bachelor of Arts in International Studies provides students with the tools to investigate globalisation, and its regional effects, from a humanities perspective. They study these effects through the prism of four disciplinary perspectives: culture, history, politics and economics, coupled with in-depth…

The members of the Institute for Philosophy study all aspects of philosophy. In our research we seek a fruitful interaction between systematic and historical approaches to philosophy, and we thrive on intensive national and international collaboration. Our research focuses on Political Philosophy and…

The Faculty of Humanities is a unique international centre for the advanced study of languages, cultures, arts, and societies worldwide, in their historical contexts from prehistory to the present. The Faculty of Humanities is one of seven faculties of Leiden…

The area studied in the English-taught BA South and Southeast Asian Studies is home to many nations, countless religions and innumerable languages, existing alongside one another. The area is characterised by diversity, yet is still regarded as a single area. How is this possible? A search for similarities…

Leiden University owns an extensive real estate portfolio in Leiden and The Hague: from historic buildings in the city center to high-tech research laboratories at the Bio Science Park. With more than 40 motivated employees, the Real Estate directorate provides good accommodation and an attractive,…

Lucien van Beek is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on Comparative Indo-European linguistics (morphology, semantics, lexicography, etymology) and philology, especially regarding the oldest sources of Greek. He conducted a VENI project 'Unraveling…

Claire Weeda is University Lecturer and Director of Education at the Institute for History.

Rachel Schats is Assistant Professor in Human Osteoarchaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.