As part of the TerraNova project, a European research initiative on the study of landscape histories and futures, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) was developed. Anastasia Nikulina was one of the main chapter coordinators who worked on this course, and she worked on the part about modelling in landscape…

Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk

Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Ali is a PhD student at the Centre for Linguistics.

Zifan Meng is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Devon Graves is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Andreas Krogull is a postdoc at the Centre for Linguistics.

Marion Elenbaas is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tony Foster is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Nathalie Brusgaard is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.

Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Comparative Urban History at the Institute for History.

Harry Buckoke is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

PhD candidate of ACPA/ docARTES programme.

Sarah Nelson is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History, and works on the history of US empire, global governance, and decolonization.

Jelena Prokic is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). Since September 2024, Jelena Prokic has also been the Head of the Digital Humanities and AI Lab at the Faculty of H…

Jan Jansen is Assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political…

Bert Botma is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in phonology and in overlapping areas of phonetics and morphology. His main research interest is the internal structure of segments and syllables. He works on a range of languages, including (Old) English, Dutch, Nivkh…

Natalia Donner is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities (International Studies, Latin America area specialization) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

I am a South African IR scholar whose research interest is questioning Western-centric narratives and making sense of international relations from the perspectives of the global South, particularly Africa. Before joining Leiden University in 2017, I was based at the University of Cape Town, where I…

Luisella Caon is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Didem Yerli is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Marcel IJsselstijn is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Margaretha Folmer is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.

Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Professor Saskia Jaszoltowski, the new Visiting Professor for Central European Studies at Leiden University joined students, colleagues and friends of Austrian Studies at Leiden for a lunch-time talk that introduced her exciting research to our community.

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Leiden University restores, modernises and builds for the users of its buildings in Leiden and The Hague. The building stock is very diverse: from historic buildings in the inner city to advanced laboratories at the Leiden Bio Science Park.

Lucien van Beek is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on Comparative Indo-European linguistics (morphology, semantics, lexicography, etymology) and philology, especially regarding the oldest sources of Greek. He conducted a VENI project 'Unraveling…

Claire Weeda is University Lecturer and Director of Education at the Institute for History.

Rachel Schats is Assistant Professor in Human Osteoarchaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…