Mubarika Nugraheni is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Guita Winkel is a guest at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

A geographer and an Indonesianist by training, I have a broad range of research interests spanning the politics, history, geography and sociology of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Within Indonesia I have a special interest the island of Sulawesi. I have published on the subjects of nationalism,…

Elpine de Boer is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Dr. Mahmood Yenkimaleki is a guest researcher in LUCL at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

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.

Tim Wuisman is a Tutor for the Bachelor Programme Security Studies at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs - Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

Léon Buskens is an anthropologist studying law and culture in Muslim societies. One of his main research interests is how Muslims shape Islam in everyday life, in relation to other practices and to religious teachings. He has a longstanding interest in Morocco, and has more recently also started to…

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

Jonathan Stökl is assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

Onur Ada is a lecturer at International Studies.

Ugur Derin is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Ajay Gandhi is an Assistant Professor, teaching at Leiden University College and affiliated to the Institute for Area Studies. His research interests are in urban, political, and economic anthropology, with a geographical focus on South Asia. Extension number: 5125

Teylers professor dr. Eric Jorink holds the special chair ‘Enlightenment and religion in historical perspective'. He is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute (KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. The focus of his research and teaching is the interaction of science,…

Prof.dr. Maurits S. Berger, LLM (1964) is a lawyer and Arabist. He is professor of Islam and the West and holds the Sultan of Oman Chair for Oriental Studies at Leiden University, and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague. He has worked…

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Marc Buijnsters is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Prof. Jan Just Witkam is retired and doesn't have a desk at the university anymore. Please send him an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Ivo Smits is a professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

James McAllister is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute for Philosophy.

Lukas Milevski is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Anoma van der Veere is a researcher within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University. He is based at the University of Osaka in Japan and writes about international collaboration and public policy in the fields of technology, education and sport. His research focuses on sport and education through…

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Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.