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1,093 search results for “history of states” in the Staff website

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• 12,000 year old dice and what they tell us about the history of play News - 26 May 2026

  The Conversation published an article on the oldest dice authored by Aris Politoupolis, Angus Mol and Walter Crist. In this article they discuss how the oldest dice are d2's, or double sided dice comparable to a coin toss. These double sided dice are 12.000 years old and therefore much older then the…

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271256

• Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ News - 30 August 2024

  In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…

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  Frits van der Meer Professor emeritus

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  f.m.van.der.meer@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor

  Administration and Central Services

  h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272922

• Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam News - 18 November 2021

  From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…

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  Michiel van Groesen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272765

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  Maria van der Schaar Senior researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.s.van.der.schaar@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Elizabeth Rodriguez Estrada PhD candidate

  e.e.rodriguez.estrada@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anahita Arian Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.arian@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kees Verduin Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  verduin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation' News - 14 May 2024

  Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.

• Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust News - 26 November 2021

  In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274692

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  Rebekka Grossmann Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.grossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0642241229

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  Sara de Wit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.de.wit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276429

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.stein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272712

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  Andrew Shield Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.d.j.shield@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272550

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  Bart van der Boom University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.e.van.der.boom@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272762

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272982

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  Miko Flohr University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.flohr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272753

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  Aad van Mastrigt PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.van.mastrigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize News - 30 August 2016

  Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”

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  Khizar Jawad Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.jawad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272709

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  Daniele Paolini Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.p.paolini@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272623

• Prosecution of Heads of State: What Happens After? Event - 27 May 2025

  LECTURE

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Jacqueline Hylkema Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Marcel Keurentjes External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below Event - 21 October 2025

  Lecture

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  William Michael Schmidli Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272341

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  Rieneke Sonnevelt PhD candidate/external

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Göran Sundholm Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.g.sundholm@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.idrissa.abdoulaye@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273372

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  Leonor Jonker PhD candidate / self funded

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  l.a.faber@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ronald Petrarca PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.a.petrarca@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Kenan van de Mieroop Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.van.de.mieroop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272715

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272693

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  Johan Visser PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.visser@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271744

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  Alicia Schrikker Professor History of the Netherlands in the World

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272769

• The State of the Earth: Estimating Physical Parameters from Noisy and Incomplete Earth Observation Data Event - 23 June 2026

  PhD defence

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Paul Adriaanse

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  Josi Marschall

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274954

• NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ News - 2 October 2024

  A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.

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  Alexander Geurds Dean / Professor

  a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272206

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  Natascha van der Zwan Guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  n.a.j.van.der.zwan@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry News - 4 May 2023

  Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…