Interested? Would you like to know more about this master's programme? Please visit the website for prospective students. Specialisations Ancient History Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence Colonial and Global History Europe 1000-1800 Political Culture and National Identities Website for enrolled…

This bachelor’s programme is taught in Dutch only, please visit the Dutch website by switching languages at the top right corner of this page.

Interested? Would you like to know more about this master's programme? Please visit the website for prospective students. Specialisations Ancient History (research) Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence (research) Colonial and Global History (research) Europe 1000-1800 (research) Political Culture…

This bachelor’s programme is taught in Dutch only, please visit the Dutch website by switching languages at the top right corner of this page.

Steven Lauritano is an art and architectural historian, and assistant professor at Leiden University. His research examines the intersection of architecture and antiquarianism, the history of architectural preservation, and the exchanges that have animated architectural-history-writing and design. Before…

Marlisa den Hartog is university lecturer at the Institute for History

Anita van Dissel is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

The Leiden University Institute for History is the home of a substantial research staff, including 65 employed and contract PhD candidates. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope that is unique to the Netherlands. This is directly reflected in the participation of her staff in various Master's…

Helen Steele is a lecturer at International Studies.

Rens Tacoma is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Marion Pluskota is assistant professor in Social and Economic History specialized in crime history and the history of prostitution/sex work.

The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400BC-400AD Medieval and Early Modern History: Europe in its Global Context Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-Present Colonial and Global History Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1500-Now History and International Studies 1900-Prese…

Dennie Oude Nijhuis is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Eileen van der Burgh is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

The lecturers teams can be found on the Dutch webpage.

Louis Sicking lectures medieval and early modern history at the Leiden University Institute for History and is Aemilius Papinianus professor of History of Public International Law, at VU University Amsterdam.

Randal Sheppard is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Ben Schoenmaker was Professor by special appointment of Military History from 2012 to 2024, on behalf of the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Anne-Isabelle Richard is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Ariadne Schmidt is professor by special appointment of the History of urban culture, in particular of Leiden (the Magdalena Moons Chair, funded by the Magdalena Moons Chair Foundation) and associate professor Economic and Social History. She is also Chair of Education of the bachelor, master and research…

John's research focuses on the history of colonial concessionary companies in sub-Saharan Africa between roughly 1880-1960.

Rafał Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History.

Bianca Angelien Claveria is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, and a member of Dr. Fenneke Sysling's ERC Starting Grant project COMET: Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia.

Christine Mertens (1994) is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.

Esther Zwinkels is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

I am a historian of political history working on the impact of colonialism on Dutch and British political practice. Whereas most political historians deal with change and innovation, I am interested in how the political elite (re)claimed power after experiencing disruption. I cross historiographical…

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

Ann Marie Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University College. She received her BA from the University of Michigan’s Residential College, her MA from San Francisco State University, and her PhD from Harvard University. At LUC she teaches courses in historical methods and environmental…

Stijn Bussels is Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and Professor of Art history, especially before 1800.

Dario Fazzi is Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

Jeffrey Fynn-Paul is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.