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• PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? News - 19 April 2022

  What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.

• The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy News - 4 July 2019

  To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vlissingen and Middelburg, the most important slave trade cities in the Netherlands during the second half of the 18th century. It turns out that, although…

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060

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  Bram Caers University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.j.m.caers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278010

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277308

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273983

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Rens Tacoma Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.e.tacoma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272632

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anna Dlabacova Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.dlabacova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272119

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  Anika Bexkens Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.bexkens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276566

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  Marieke Tollenaar Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.s.tollenaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273454

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272193

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  Louis Verreth PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.verreth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anne Gerritsen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sara Velthuizen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.l.m.velthuizen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272147

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  Kristiaan van der Heijden Vice Dean / Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  kbheijden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274003

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  Fenneke Sysling Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272737

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Krista A. Milne Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.a.milne@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272978

• Looking inside the tent: questions for deep history Event - 7 October 2025

  Lecture

• opportunities to de-escalate treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ and early-stage breast cancer Event - 28 January 2025

  PhD defence

• and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China Event - 4 March 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

• Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news News - 22 March 2024

  LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project

• Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600 News - 30 August 2016

  Louis Sicking's Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe was awarded an 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant from NWO. What can we learn from how maritime conflicts were managed in the past?

• Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe Event - 21 November 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

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  Annelou van Gijn Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.l.van.gijn@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272389

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  Anna van Duijvenvoorde Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.c.k.van.duijvenvoorde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273853

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  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Bleda Düring Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276449

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  Alexander Geurds Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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

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  Constant Hijzen Research Fellow

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.w.hijzen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

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  Mariana Françozo Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.de.campos.francozo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272437

• Neanderthals hunted straight-tusked elephants, 125,000 years ago News - 2 February 2023

  A Leiden and Mainz (Germany) based team studies the activities of early humans in a 125,000 years old Last Interglacial ecosystem, formerly exposed in a large open cast brown coal pit near Halle (Germany). The Last Interglacial is an important warm-temperate period, showing the full flora and fauna…

• Lecture series ‘Museum Talks’ kicked off News - 2 October 2019

  Major renovations, much-discussed exhibitions and current museum related questions. ‘If you want to know what is happening in the art and museum sector in a very up-to-date way, then the 'Museum Talks' lecture series is the thing for you’, says Professor of Art History and organiser Stijn Bussels.

• Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor News - 8 December 2025

  PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate how child labor shaped the bones of Dutch children between the 17th and 19th centuries. Using CT scans, she aims to build a more comprehensive picture of…

• Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk: “The Early Modern Discovery of the Roman limes along the Danube and its impact on 16th-Cen. Austrian Architecture” Event - 9 December 2025

  Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk

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  Peter Akkermans Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.m.m.g.akkermans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michiel Westenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Event
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  Willem van der Does Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vanderdoes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  m.m.a.kaag@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273375

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  Joanita Vroom Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.a.c.vroom@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276087

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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

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  Catia Antunes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272735