865 search results for “histories” in the Staff website
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Alisa van de Haar
Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.l.truijers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277548
- Inge Ligtvoet
- Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen
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Melania Brito Clavijo
Faculty of Humanities
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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Sarah Cramsey
I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272655
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede
Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede fought for greater popular influence. Historian Dirk Alkemade reveals how this pioneer used radical means to shape Dutch democracy.
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Emma Grootveld
Emma Grootveld is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
- Jan Abbink
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Mark Rutgers
Mark Rutgers is Professor of Social Philosophy. As philosopher he specialises in the philosophy of administration and public sector values. All his research has been in the humanities and typically covers conceptual linguistic and historical subjects.
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Ellen van Reuler
Ellen van Reuler is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science.
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
m.g.w.reichgelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272063
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
b.allahissem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277392
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Edmund Amann
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.
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Vera Scepanovic
Vera Scepanovic is a Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University. She was previously a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence and a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest.
- Ahab Bdaiwi
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.castro.ibarra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Amadou Adamou
Amadou Adamou is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
- Matthew Sung
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Jiaxuan Huang
Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Koen van der Lijn
Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Yusra Abdullahi
Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.
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Saskia Cohen-Willner
Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
a.stathopoulos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009441
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
s.renz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Gus Kraus
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel Wyss
Michel Wyss is a PhD student at the Institute for History.
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Tony van der Togt
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.van.der.togt@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Ali Murtaza is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
a.j.coxeter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
l.f.lee@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ruben Eijkelenberg
Faculty of Humanities
r.i.eijkelenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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David André Anton Cina
Faculty of Humanities
d.a.a.cina@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
- Luuk van de Vondervoort
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Robertus Benning
Robertus Benning is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
l.jing@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
o.mcmahon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
d.kastritis@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027