Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel speaks October 27 at Leiden University about her work.

Xiong Xiong is a PhD at the Institute for Area Studies.

Caroline Fernandes Caromano is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Mirjam Sombroek van Doorm (1968) has been appointed professor of Law and Health at the Department of Juvenile Law & Health Law of the Institute of Private Law since 1 October 2022. The broad remit of Law and Health reflects the ambition to strengthen (interdisciplinary) cooperation between the various…

Judith Frishman is professor emeritus of Judaism at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Prof. dr. A. (Arie) van der Kooij (Emeritus) is retired associated member of LUCSoR. He doesn't have a desk at the university anymore. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Berthe Jansen is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Studies at Leiden University. She has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the same university. Jansen has wide academic interests but most have to do with the confluence of religion and society. Her monograph The Monastery Rules: Tibetan Monastic Organization…

Sarah Holma is an anthropologist and archaeologist whose work explores how people understand, care for, and live alongside heritage in the modern world. Her doctoral research at Leiden University focuses on Cambodia, where she examines how Angkor has been shaped by decades of international conservation,…

For the academic year 2025-2026, nine (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

I am a scholar of political economy and development in the Middle East. My research focuses on the Arab region, with a particular focus on Gulf investment in the states of North Africa and the Levant, rural development and business politics. Aside from my academic career I have 20 years experience of…

Loes Janssen has finished her PhD in the NWO VICI project of Bernet Elzinga, RE-PAIR.

Myrthe Veenman studied Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained the research master’s degree with the specialisation Psychological Methods and Statistics, and finished the master track Behavioural Data Science (2020). In September 2020, she started her PhD programme with supervisors Prof.…

Mubarika Nugraheni is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Guita Winkel is a guest at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

A geographer and an Indonesianist by training, I have a broad range of research interests spanning the politics, history, geography and sociology of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Within Indonesia I have a special interest the island of Sulawesi. I have published on the subjects of nationalism,…

Elpine de Boer is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Judi Mesman (1974) has been a professor at Leiden University since 2009 and focuses on the study of social (in)justice with special attention to intergenerational issues at individual and institutional levels. Since 2024, she has also been appointed Distinguished Professor of Social Responsibility and…

Dr. Mahmood Yenkimaleki is a guest researcher in LUCL at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

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.

Tim Wuisman is a Tutor for the Bachelor Programme Security Studies at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs - Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

Léon Buskens is an anthropologist studying law and culture in Muslim societies. One of his main research interests is how Muslims shape Islam in everyday life, in relation to other practices and to religious teachings. He has a longstanding interest in Morocco, and has more recently also started to…

Rosanneke Emmen is a postdoc in the research cluster societal challenges (LUC) and investigates the parenting origins of ethnic prejudice in diverse ethnic groups.