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• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2025-2026 Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2025-2026 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025 Event
• Havar Solheim

  Håvar Solheim is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

• European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025 Event - 26 March 2025

  Conference

• Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes News - 5 October 2021

  Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This tradition stifled innovation in the genre, Cécile Bosman has concluded. She will defend her PhD thesis on 13 October.

• Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award News - 7 April 2022

  Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of Norwegian and Danish Immigrants". The prize was awarded for the eighth time in collaboration with Elsevier Weekblad. The incentive award went to Amber…

• The Roman empire and world history Event - 30 January 2026

  Debate

• ‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’ News - 1 July 2025

  The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’

• Quintijn Mauer

  Quintijn Mauer is an Assistant Professor for the department Legal History at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law.

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  Patricio Silva Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.silva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 3113353399

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 7 February 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 14 March 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

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  Tobias van der Wal Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  t.b.d.van.der.wal@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276879

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  Liesbeth Claes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.claes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278016

• Tracing the Early History of Yoga Event - 11 June 2025

  Lecture, VVIK lecture

• History and change in Sign Language Phonology Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture

• Rudi van Maanen

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  Thea Hilhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.d.j.m.hilhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Pieter Emmer

  Piet Emmer is Professor Emeritus in the History of European expansion and migration at the Leiden University Institute for History (chair from 1991 to 2009).

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  Floris Plak Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.c.k.plak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Ron Elkhuizen

  Ron Elkhuizen is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

• Anahita Arian

  Anahita Arian is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.

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  Gina van Ling Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.i.van.ling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009137

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  Elizabeth Rodriguez Estrada PhD candidate

  e.e.rodriguez.estrada@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kees Verduin Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  verduin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria van der Schaar Senior researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.s.van.der.schaar@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Robert Pitt External PhD/ guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.k.pitt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laurie Kalb Cosmo Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.k.cosmo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272249

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  Lieke Smits

• Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship News - 30 June 2023

  If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.

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  Sander van der Horst PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.p.van.der.horst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272372

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  Pam de Groot Office Manager

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.z.de.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271954

• Jessie van Straaten

  Jessie van Straaten is a PhD candidate in the Economic and Social History team of Leiden University. Specific interests include social history, health, medical history, family and care, and the history of children and old age. For her dissertation, she is conducting research on housing for older people…

• Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe

  Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe is a guest researcher at the Institute for History.

• Hendri Schut

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  Sander Tetteroo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.e.g.tetteroo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Simon Kemper PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.c.kemper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Intigam Mamedov Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn Storms Curator

  Leiden University Libraries

  m.storms@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272855

• Dennis Worst

  Dennis Worst is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• Ajeng Arainikasih

• Juliette Staüdt

  Juliette Staüdt is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• Patricia Kret

  Patricia Kret is working on a PhD thesis on continuities and discontinuities in the use of Roman amulets (100 BCE – 600 CE).

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  Sjoerd Ramackers Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.j.ramackers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 527 2709

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  Emma Sow Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.sow@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271345

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  Jamel Buhari PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.l.j.buhari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278073

• Matthias Lukkes

  Matthias Lukkes is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History, working on the project Revisiting the Invention of Africa, 1590-1720. His research focuses on Dutch imaginations of Africa in the long seventeenth century and how these shaped a shared European understanding of African alterity.

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  Marijke Kooijman