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Having a species complex, taxonomic revision of the reinstated genus Kirganelia will be more interesting and challenging. The new approach combining molecular technique and Image Recognition will be used in my research. These valuable techniques can then also be introduced to speed up the biodiversity…

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to invite you for the symposium Rediscovered: new technologies on historical artifacts on Friday 16 November, from 10.00-18.00. The symposium will be held in the Vossius room of the UBL at Witte Singel 27.

The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014 when Russia suddenly annexed Crimea and supported separatist militias in the Donbas. Last year, president Putin called for a restored geopolitical and spiritual trinity of Greater Russians, Belarusians and Lesser Russians…

Amos van Baalen is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University (150 maps),…

Marijn van Putten is assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on the linguistics, transmission and history of the Quranic text and the Quranic reading traditions. Besides this, he also researches the…

Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…

Roos van Oosten is an assistant professor in Medieval and Urban Archaeology at Leiden University. She has a broad research interest reflected in numerous publications on diverse topics: sanitation management, the textile industry, cemeteries and burial practices, historical cooking, ceramics and environmental…

Paul Hudson is Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Sustainability. He is a Dutch-American academic, and has been in the Netherlands since 2010 where he has considerable experience managing and leading educational programs across the university landscape. His teaching and research in environmental…

Pascale Eskes is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics

Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.

Niels Schoubben is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “The Silk Road Language Web” (PI: Prof. dr. Michaël Peyrot). As a linguist-cum-philologist, he studies the written remains of extinct Central Asian languages in order to uncover words and grammatical patterns borrowed from one ancient language…

Jan Wim Buisman is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Débora Wanderley is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University and a member of the project Through the Hand, led by Victoria Nyst. She is a Deaf Brazilian with close connections to the Deaf community in different regions of Brazil. Débora has a true passion for studying, researching, and teaching…

Hilde Gunnink is a linguist specialized in the languages of Southern Africa. Her research focuses on documenting the synchronic structures of African languages, how these developed and changed over time, and what this can tell us about the human past.

Gijsbert Rutten is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. His research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies.

Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela is a deaf PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. He is pursuing his degree in research on Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Science of Education from College of St. Rose, New York- US and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from…

Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English linguistics.

Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project

Michaël Peyrot’s research focuses on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular the verbal system, and on language contact and prehistory, especially in the Tocharian, Iranian and Indic branches. The leading question is how language contact can be used to draw conclusions about linguistic…

Adrien Dadone is a researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is deaf and comes from France. He is in Leiden for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Adrien's research focuses on the emergence of sign languages and phenomena of contact with coverbal gestures. He is also interested in studying sign…

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Manuel Cabal is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Casper van Dijk is a PhD candidate researching the transformation of military as complex adaptive systems. His dissertation, Military Metamorphosis: Warfare in the Northern Netherlands, 1425–1560, reinterprets late medieval warfare through the lens of emergence and complex systems theory, offering an…

Hester Groot is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. She is a historical sociolinguist, focusing on the language of the poor in Late Modern Scotland. Her research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of…

As a sociolinguist, I am interested in how people use language in daily situations to achieve a variety of goals. As people do this, two things become immediately obvious. First, people routinely mean more than their words mean, so we always need to read between the lines of each other's (spoken or…

My expertise is in Indo-European linguistics. I have successively specialized in Italic (BA), Greek (MA), Germanic (MA), Anatolian (PhD) and Tocharian (postdoc), and contributed to various dictionary projects.

Jesse Wichers Schreur is a lecturer teaching morphology, historical linguistics, Georgian and Ancient Greek⁠. In his research he focuses on languages of the Caucasus, in areas of language contact, areal typology and reconstruction⁠.

Kate Bellamy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on P’urhepecha, a language isolate spoken in Michoacán, Mexico. She is particularly interested in its lexical semantics and morphological composition, as well as how it is used – and varies – in language contact…

Rik van Gijn is professor by special appointment of ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world at the Centre for Linguistics. His interests focus on the indigenous languages of South America, and in particular on the question of the historical development of the stunning linguistic diversity…