• Public website
• Student website
• Staff website
• Organisational structure
• Library website

625 search results for “islam history” in the Staff website

• 
  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.p.bravo.lee@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Ibrahim Harun Demirel

• 
  Macarena Alegria Garcia

• Katarzyna Cwiertka

  Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.

• Alisa van de Haar

  Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…

• Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery News - 4 July 2023

  In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?

• 
  Lucinda Truijers-Jansen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.l.truijers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277548

• 
  Inge Ligtvoet Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.j.g.c.ligtvoet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271956

• Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen

• 
  Rob Cullum

• 
  Melania Brito Clavijo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Céline Zaepffel

  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.…

• Royal honour for Gert Oostindie News - 20 December 2021

  Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…

• Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections News - 19 April 2024

  On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…

• Sarah Cramsey

  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,…

• 
  Isaac Scarborough Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272655

• Jan Michiel Otto

• 
  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  c.u.uche@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273854

• 
  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.a.nyssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa Professor News - 4 September 2025

  The French political theorist Hélène Landemore has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Professor. She will deliver her inaugural lecture on 26 November.

• 
  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.w.reichgelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272063

• 
  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.allahissem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277392

• Edmund Amann

  Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

• Vera Scepanovic

  Vera Scepanovic is a Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University. She was previously a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence and a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest.

• 
  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.castro.ibarra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.amadou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Matthew Sung Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

• Jiaxuan Huang

  Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• Koen van der Lijn

  Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.

• Yusra Abdullahi

  Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.

• 
  Saskia Cohen-Willner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.g.cohen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Athanasios Stathopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.stathopoulos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009441

• 
  Seraina Renz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.renz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Gus Kraus PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Michel Wyss

  Michel Wyss is a PhD student at the Institute for History.

• 
  Tony van der Togt Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  a.m.van.der.togt@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• Ghulam Ali Murtaza

  Ali Murtaza is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• 
  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.coxeter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646

• 
  Li-Fan Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.f.lee@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Ruben Eijkelenberg PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.i.eijkelenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  David André Anton Cina PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.a.a.cina@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Luuk van de Vondervoort

• Robertus Benning

  Robertus Benning is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• 
  Lun Jing External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• 
  Orson McMahon PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.mcmahon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Dimitris Kastritis Tutorial lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.kastritis@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.

• Mink van IJzendoorn

  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…

• 
  David Ehrhardt Associate Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009313

• Ratna Saptari Soetikno Slamet