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934 search results for “history of racial” in the Staff website

• Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ News - 30 August 2024

  In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam News - 18 November 2021

  From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271256

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  Elizabeth Rodriguez Estrada PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  e.e.rodriguez.estrada@arch.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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  Kees Verduin Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  verduin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation' News - 14 May 2024

  Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.

• Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust News - 26 November 2021

  In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor

  Administration and Central Services

  h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272922

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.stein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272712

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274692

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Andrew Shield Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.d.j.shield@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272550

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  Bart van der Boom University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.e.van.der.boom@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272762

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272982

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  Bente de Leede PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.m.de.leede@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Miko Flohr University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.flohr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272753

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  Maud Rijks PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.rijks@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273516

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  Stefano Bellucci University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.bellucci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273473

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  Aad van Mastrigt PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.van.mastrigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Geke Burger Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272339

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  Khizar Jawad Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.jawad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272709

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  Daniele Paolini

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272947

• Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship News - 23 March 2022

  Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging”.

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  William Michael Schmidli Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272341

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  Jacqueline Hylkema Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Anahita Arian Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Rieneke Sonnevelt PhD candidate/external

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Göran Sundholm Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.g.sundholm@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Claire Vergerio Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.vergerio@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rodrigo Ochigame Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.ochigame@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Johan Visser PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.visser@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271744

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274167

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  Kenan van de Mieroop Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.van.de.mieroop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272715

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  Ronald Petrarca PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.a.petrarca@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Shadowboxing: Legal Mobilization and the Marginalization of Race in the Dutch Metropole, 1979-1999 Event - 18 September 2025

  PhD defence

• NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ News - 2 October 2024

  A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.

• Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry News - 4 May 2023

  Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…

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  Alexander Geurds Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272206

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Marcel Keurentjes External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.keurentjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274954

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  Alicia Schrikker Professor History of the Netherlands in the World

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272769

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  y.c.huang@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009596

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  Klaas Worp Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.a.worp@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.rieger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271290

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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