Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Politics and International Relations of Japan

Ruoyu Shi is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Aya Ezawa is a sociologist and University Lecturer in Modern Japan studies. Her research examines social inequality and differentiation based on oral history interviews. In her research, she has examined the gendered character of social class and social mobility in the context of the life stories of…

Jeffrey Fynn-Paul is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Crystal Ennis is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Crystal is a scholar of Global Political Economy whose research examines the political economy of dependency on hydrocarbon revenue and foreign labour in Gulf economies. With a regional focus on the Arabian…

This Subject Guide is designed to support students of International Studies with writing their BA thesis and research papers. This guide focuses on the research process, and suggests effective ways to: 1. find a topic and formulate a good research question; 2. search, find and evaluate literature; 3.…

I am a social anthropologist, trained at Harvard (BA) and SOAS, University of London (MARes, PhD), with a broad interest in urban spaces and the forces that shape our lives in and around them. I have conducted fieldwork in North, Western and East Africa on topics ranging from informal housing, gendered…

Yinzhi Zhang is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Rizal Shidiq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is an economist by training with primary fields in development economics and monetary theory, and secondary field public choice. His current research topics are on political connections in developing countries,…

Markus Davidsen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Ben Arps is a Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Aleena Karim is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She works on film narratology.

Esther Zwinkels is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Jacobine Melis is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Salvador Santino Regilme (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary researcher of International Relations and human rights, and he is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines…

Oussama Macnack is external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tim is Assistent Professor at the department of Business Studies. His research focuses on the (business) economics fundamentals, especially the theory of the firm and the co-evolution of companies and markets in complexity economics.

Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Jue is a scholar of Chinese economy and Global Political Economy. With a regional focus on China, her areas of expertise include international political economy, development finance, international organisations, technology…

André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

Nike van Helden is an external PhD and Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. With a background in Latin American Studies, Nike has specialized in literary analysis, and Cuban literature in particular.

Renfei Bai is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Longming Shichuan is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Hans Theunissen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

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

I am a human geographer with expertise on urban and digital studies, contemporary Korea, and East Asia. I examine shifting forms of displacement at the intersection of class, gender, land, and technology. My projects are informed by critical urban theories, political economy, and feminist thoughts.

Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones,…

Svetlana Kharchenkova is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor Film, Literary and Media Studies at Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Bianca Angelien Claveria is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, and a member of Dr. Fenneke Sysling's ERC Starting Grant project COMET: Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia.

Alp Yenen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He works primarily on the political history of modern Turkey and the Middle East. He is specialized on the turn of the 20th century, First World War, Interwar period, and the Cold War period. He also comments and…

Sofia de Jong was appointed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Company Law, part of the Institute of Private Law, in November 2023. Her empirical legal research focuses on the effectiveness of Dutch company law as an instrument for influencing behaviour to achieve sustainability goals.

Kate Brackney is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University. Her current research explores how aesthetic norms have developed for remembering the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity. She teaches courses in modern European intellectual and cultural history. Before coming to Leiden, she…

Areti Leventi is a PhD candidate in the Neanderthal Legacy research project.

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.