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1,476 search results for “centre african history” in the Staff website

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  Lukas Milevski Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.milevski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271288

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  Alicia Schrikker Senior University Lecturer / Director of Research

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’ News - 16 September 2025

  The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…

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  Kate Brackney Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.l.brackney@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277212

• Save the date: Centre for Digital Scholarship Summer Training Week 2026 Event - 8 June 2026

  Workshops, lectures

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  William Michael Schmidli Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Raymond Fagel University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.p.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272730

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  Akinyinka Akinyoade Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.akinyoade@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276701

• ASCL Seminar: When Africans speak Event - 6 November 2025

  Lecture

• History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ News - 22 March 2021

  Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…

• Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize News - 30 August 2016

  Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”

• Mamadou Hébié represents Latvia and the African Union in landmark use of force and climate change cases News - 27 September 2023

  Dr Mamadou Hébié, Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, served last week as legal counsel in the world’s first advisory proceedings concerning climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), on the one hand, and…

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.oosterbaan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ying Zhang Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276006

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272705

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  Camilla Marraccini Guest PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.marraccini@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries Event - 13 February 2026

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

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  Alain Wijffels Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.a.wijffels@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jonathan Powell Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.d.powell@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Limin Teh University Lecturer Modern Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275915

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  Henk te Velde Interim Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.te.velde@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271628

• Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre News - 22 July 2024

  The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.

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  Diego Salama Editor Global Governance (journal)

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.salama@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Writing history together in the Transvaal News - 18 October 2021

  Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Aad van Mastrigt PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Maja Vodopivec Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  m.vodopivec@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009472

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  Peter Kop Teaching methodologist / guest

  ICLON

  koppmgm@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273470

• So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’ News - 16 December 2024

  Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?

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  John Sunday Ojo Postdoc

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.s.ojo@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Misha Plagis Guest researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.a.plagis@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Karwan Fatah-Black Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272666

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  André Gerrits Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.w.m.gerrits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Roos Stolker Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589

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  Eric Cezne Postdoc

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  e.m.cezne@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Claire Weeda Director of Education / University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272718

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  Ako Tsujita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.tsujita.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zhengshan Jiao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.jiao@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Fenneke Sysling Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272737

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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

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  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Willem Zwalve Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  w.j.zwalve@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277440

• The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context Event - 5 February 2026

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History News - 3 November 2022

  Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.

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  Karin Nijenhuis Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  c.t.nijenhuis@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277377

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  Jiyan Ilbrink University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.ilbrink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Digital skills at History News - 18 June 2021

  In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…