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• Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University News - 1 September 2022

  Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.

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  Arend Quak Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  arend.quak@kpnmail.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alexander Pleijter Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.r.j.pleijter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276551

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  Astrid van Alem Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.h.j.van.alem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275943

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  Willem van Rooijen Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.van.rooijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273905

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273026

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  Anne-Isabelle Richard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272188

• Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session Event - 31 October 2025

  Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars

• 10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns News - 24 October 2022

  This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…

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  Jeroen Wiedenhof University Lecturer Chinese Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.wiedenhof@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272080

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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.b.elenbaas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272957

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  Tony Foster Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.foster@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272124

• Student poster presentations: Linguistic Fieldwork B Event - 9 May 2025

  Exhibition, poster session

• New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you' News - 8 February 2024

  Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'

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  Jorge Duran Solorzano PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.duran.solorzano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ying-ting Wang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.wang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273096

• ASCL Seminar: The politics of net zero in Africa. Insights from ongoing work Event - 5 February 2026

  Lecture

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  Alex Reuneker Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.reuneker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274184

• Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia Event - 29 May 2026

  Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

• ‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ News - 20 November 2023

  A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.

• ‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' News - 19 March 2024

  The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…

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  Olga Krasnoukhova Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.krasnoukhova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anik Nandi Guest Reseacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.nandi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003903

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  Boukary Sangaré PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.sangare@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant News - 26 November 2021

  The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.

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  Niels Schiller Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.o.schiller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jin Wang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.wang.46@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Migliori Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.migliori@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272058

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  Chams Bernard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.b.a.s.bernard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Federico Dragoni Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.dragoni@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275325

• Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient? News - 2 June 2023

  As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…

• Extra information faculties on OER Humanities Course and Examination Regulations (OER)

  The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.

• A Tale in Two Tongues Event
• Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures Event - 6 November 2025

  Conference

• Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas' News - 20 January 2023

  University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.

• Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel News - 26 September 2022

  Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.

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  Yitsz Neurink Education and research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.m.c.a.neurink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andrew Wigman Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.wigman.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

• Societal impact Roadmap and examples

  You can apply various means to increase your societal impact: through interaction with professionals, the commercial sector or general audiences. The University can support you in this process in a number of ways.

• Mandela Scholarship Fund Scholarship

  Bachelor, Master

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  Luca Bruls PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.r.bruls@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278030

• Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’ News - 30 September 2025

  From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…

• ‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’ News - 7 October 2022

  Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline receives around 10 million calls each year. The Benefits Affair emphasised the citizen’s perspective in communications with the Tax and Customs Administration.…

• LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize News - 3 September 2021

  Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…

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  Myra Arends Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.arends@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273314

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  Cecilia Mignanti PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.mignanti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Claartje Levelt Scientific Director / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103

• Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’ News - 23 March 2026

  As Professor of African Linguistics, Nancy Kula increases our knowledge of variation across languages. Her inaugural lecture is on Monday 23 March.