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The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award for US nationals. There are more than 3,000 applications every year, and this year only 188 were honoured. Professor Jonathan Silk is one of these 188, the first ever at Leiden University, and he tells us more about the fellowship and what he will do…

Markus Davidsen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

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

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

My research focuses on science and innovation and in particular the interface between them, integrating various disciplinary perspectives, such as public policy, sociology, economics, and psychology.

As Vice President of the Executive Board, Timo Kos is responsible for finance, general HRM policy, ICT, real estate, facility services, and security. He is also the point of contact for Campus The Hague.

Tim is Assistent Professor at the department of Business Studies. His research focuses on the (business) economics fundamentals, especially the theory of the firm and the co-evolution of companies and markets in complexity economics.

Tsolin Nalbantian (MA NYU, 2003; PhD Columbia, 2011) is an Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History. She focuses on diasporas, minorities, and the modern political and social history of Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus.

Alumni event, Lustrum

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal where Humanities master’s students can prepare for an academic career by publishing articles themselves.

Joni Reef is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and a Research Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leiden University.

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André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

A large group of researchers from Leiden University will convene a panel or present a paper at the 10th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), which will take place from 25 to 28 June in Prague.

Whether you’re giving a course for the first time or aiming to update your learning objectives or teaching formats, effective education starts with good course design. This step-by-step plan will help you create or innovate your course: from learning objectives to teaching formats.

In this article in The Irish Times, Pádraig Corrigan talks about his experience studying abroad at Leiden University College in The Hague.

The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.

Many PhD candidates, as well as research master students at the Faculty of Humanities, are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at the collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different…

On 1 September 2023, 280 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden: the UNESCO world heritage site, where the university was originally founded in 1575. A large audience of about 700 people consisting…

Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones,…

From the Open Days and Student for a Day events to the option of following Online Experience modules: the university tries to prepare prospective students for their new study programme as well as possible. In this context, the bachelor’s programmes Dutch Language and Culture and English Language and…

From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…

Sofia de Jong was appointed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Company Law, part of the Institute of Private Law, in November 2023. Her empirical legal research focuses on the effectiveness of Dutch company law as an instrument for influencing behaviour to achieve sustainability goals.

Dr. Peter van der Zwan is an associate professor at the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics (2007) and PhD in Economics (2011) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined the department in 2017.

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Linda Breeman’s research focuses on promoting health behaviour and lifestyle changes, specializing in (eHealth) intervention development and intervention implementation in complex systems.

Christoph Keller is a full Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Leiden Observatory. His research centers around polarized light.

Jarle Brinchmann has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Oslo. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge with his thesis