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• Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery News - 4 July 2023

  In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?

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  Lucinda Truijers-Jansen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.l.truijers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277548

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  Rob Cullum Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.r.cullum@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274142

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  Min Zhang Visiting postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Inge Ligtvoet Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.j.g.c.ligtvoet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271956

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  Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.vesseur@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271269

• Discover teaching: ‘Take the leap!’ News - 11 December 2025

  Nicky Boer is enrolled in the Educational Master’s Programme in Social Studies/Social Sciences at ICLON, the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching.

• Royal honour for Gert Oostindie News - 20 December 2021

  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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  Céline Zaepffel Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.v.zaepffel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Judith Naeff University Lecturer International Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.a.naeff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8004192

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  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278825

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  Isaac Scarborough Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272655

• The Top 450 is growing: entry number 50 published News - 27 March 2024

  The 50th Top 450 entry has now been published. In the run-up to the university’s 450th anniversary, we are compiling our Top 450. What is your favourite?

• Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you' News - 1 September 2025

  The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge their own paths and grow by trial and error.

• Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa Professor News - 4 September 2025

  The French political theorist Hélène Landemore has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Professor. She will deliver her inaugural lecture on 26 November.

• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  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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  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.amadou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.w.reichgelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272063

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  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.allahissem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277392

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  Edmund Amann Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.amann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271007

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  Vera Scepanovic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.scepanovic@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272342

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  Ahab Bdaiwi University Lecturer Arabic and Medieval Philosophy and Late Antique Intellectual History

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.bdaiwi@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271639

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  Matthew Sung PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.castro.ibarra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  c.u.uche@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273854

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  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.a.nyssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jiaxuan Huang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Koen van der Lijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.m.van.der.lijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272241

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  Yusra Abdullahi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.s.abdullahi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Saskia Cohen-Willner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.g.cohen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Athanasios Stathopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.stathopoulos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009441

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  Seraina Renz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.renz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Gus Kraus PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michel Wyss PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.d.wyss@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Tony van der Togt Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.m.van.der.togt@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Ghulam Ali Murtaza PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.a.murtaza@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.coxeter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646

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  Li-Fan Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.f.lee@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272027

• Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate News - 5 April 2016

  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.

• Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons News - 28 November 2023

  From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’

• University introduces lay talk and it looks like this News - 11 September 2024

  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.

• Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’ News - 4 February 2021

  Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…

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  Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña University Lecturer Development Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.palacio.ludena@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272189

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede News - 11 June 2025

  Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede fought for greater popular influence. Historian Dirk Alkemade reveals how this pioneer used radical means to shape Dutch democracy.

• The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence News - 21 January 2021

  The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.

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  Albert Logtenberg Assistant professor

  ICLON

  a.logtenberg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278506

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  Rong Yuan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.yuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.b.elenbaas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272957