I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…

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I am a Lecturer in Contemporary Military History and Security Studies, teaching in both the History and International Relations programmes here at Leiden. I grew up in Yorkshire, England and was interested in history and international politics from a young age. In 2003 I went to the University of Cambridge…

Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

Mink W. van IJzendoorn is a PhD candidate and is involved in teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. He studies cycles of socioeconomic innovation and decline across the Mediterranean world. Mink’s research revolves around premodern pottery, most notably transport amphorae. Thematically, he…

Thijs Witty is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ernst van Alphen is a professor emeritus of of Literary Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Adriana Churampi Ramirez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Yasco Horsman is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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…

Christoph Pieper is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. After having studied Latin, German and Italian Literature in Bonn and Florence, he has been a Universiy Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University since 2006. His main research interests are Cicero and his afterlife (a theme…

Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…

Peter Verstraten is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Kitty Zijlmans is a Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Art History and Theory/World Art Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Rik Lettany is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Dr Marike van Aerde is Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department. Her research focuses on trade routes and exchange networks spanning from ancient Egypt to the 1st-millennium Indian Ocean. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, and methodological applications…

Arthur Crucq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He lectures about topics such as art and anthropology, art theory, representation and style, regarding fields as diverse as architecture, ornament, painting, sculpture and textiles. In recent years he published…

Otto Boele is a Senior University Lecturer with expertise on Russian literature, film and popular culture. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, he serves a wider audience through lectures, film reviews and podcasts (for instance the Home Academy), often with a historical dimension.

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

Wouter Wagemakers is a specialist in Italian renaissance art and architecture, and lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. At Leiden University, he teaches a survey course on European renaissance art and architecture, 1300-1550; and co-teaches seminars about Rome, the Global Renaissance, and…

Alexander Verpoorte is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Sander Stolk is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts.

Laura Bertens is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.