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• In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022) News - 18 August 2022

  Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing came as a tremendous shock to her colleagues and friends at the Faculty of Archaeology and to colleagues and former students both in The Netherlands and…

• New research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes News - 6 January 2022

  The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…

• Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' News - 16 March 2023

  When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.

• ceramic production in the Lesser Antilles during the Ceramic Age and Early Colonial Period Event - 20 February 2025

  PhD defence

• Meet Prof. dr. Jürgen K. Zangenberg, LJSA Co-Initiator and Member News - 23 November 2023

  Prof. Zangenberg came to Leiden in 2006 as Professor for New Testament and Early Christian Literature and is now Chair for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272721

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  Annelieke Hagen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.hagen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271121

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  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278825

• Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf Event - 16 May 2025

  Lecture

• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

• Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830 News - 13 April 2021

  For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…

• MS/MS-Based Bone CHIP Species Identification Event - 15 May 2025

  PhD defence

• and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China Event - 4 March 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

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  Suzanne Klare PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.h.klare@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nuranisa Nuranisa PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.nuranisa@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Evelien Urbanus Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.l.urbanus@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Robbert Striekwold External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.striekwold@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Simon van der Straten PhD candidate

  s.van.der.straten@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Letty ten Harkel Assistant professor

  a.t.ten.harkel@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272631

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  Zahra Azhar PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.warnar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272158

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  Christoph Pieper University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272673

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  Ricarda Proppert PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.k.proppert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andrea Reyes Elizondo Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.e.reyes.elizondo@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273909

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  Marianne van Dijken Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mdijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Song Tan

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  Stefanie van Goozen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  goozenshmvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eiko Fried Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.i.fried@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Casper de Jonge Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272678

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  Willem Adelaar Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.f.h.adelaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Carlotta Rieble PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.l.rieble@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Brian Shaev Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.shaev@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276658

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  Wouter Wagemakers Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505

• Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk: “The Early Modern Discovery of the Roman limes along the Danube and its impact on 16th-Cen. Austrian Architecture” Event - 9 December 2025

  Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk

• ‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’ News - 16 May 2022

  We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we are today. This is what Marie Soressi, Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology, will argue in her inaugural…

• PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? News - 19 April 2022

  What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027

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  Marga Sikkema-de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  jongtm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273881

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  Anne-Isabelle Richard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271399

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277308

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272193

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  Louis Verreth PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.verreth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kristiaan van der Heijden Vice Dean / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kbheijden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274003

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  Anna Dlabacova Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.dlabacova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272119

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  Bram Caers University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.j.m.caers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278010

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rens Tacoma Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.e.tacoma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272632