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• ‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’ News - 28 April 2020

  Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing to do this now he is working from home? And how is Silvia Vermetten digitising Eastern manuscripts from home?

• New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska News - 21 October 2021

  Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Most letters were written in 1982-1983 before the first publication of a collection of Szymborska’s poetry in Dutch, translated by…

• Urban Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Urban Studies

• Caribbean Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Caribbean Studies

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  Federico De Musso Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.de.musso@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mitch van Geel Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  mgeel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276711

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Leiden University Libraries

  b.s.van.der.steen@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rick Honings Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.a.m.honings@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272126

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  Rachel Schats Associate professor

  r.schats@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271925

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  Judith Pollmann Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.pollmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272740

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  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

  m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nadira Saab Professor

  ICLON

  n.saab@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275726

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  Constant Hijzen Research Fellow

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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

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  Kim Beerden University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272761

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  Maryla Klajn PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.e.klajn@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Hans Slabbekoorn Professor

  h.w.slabbekoorn@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275049

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  Annelieke Hagen Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Thijs Brocades Zaalberg Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.w.brocades@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272770

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272759

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  Rene Kleijn Professor

  kleijn@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271498

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  Berna Güroglu Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  bguroglu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yiya Chen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  yiya.chen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271688

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  Peter van der Putten Assistant professor

  p.w.h.van.der.putten@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277033

• Photo report of the university float in the Grand Parade News - 7 October 2024

  The Grand Parade was a festive highlight of the 450th anniversary celebration of 3 October. Students and staff members from Leiden University participated with an impressive float.

• What the Leiden Teaching Prize has meant for three past winners News - 26 May 2025

  You win the Leiden Teaching Prize and suddenly all eyes are on you. Three past recipients reflect on how this student-awarded prize has changed how they work and improved their teaching – and how they chose to spend the money.

• Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy News - 5 December 2023

  With a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund D//F, John Boy and members of the d12n research cluster will explore new ways critical technologists try to align their work with digital technology with the political goal of defending the public interest.

• Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University News - 29 February 2024

  From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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  Tullio Abruzzese PhD candidate

  t.abruzzese@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marie Soressi Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology

  m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275355

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  Crystal Ennis University Lecturer Political Economies of the Middle East

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275635

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  Wei Chu Researcher and assistant professor

  w.chu@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mitra Baratchi Associate professor

  m.baratchi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277492

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  Ellen de Bruijn Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  edebruijn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273748

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  Adriaan Bedner Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.w.bedner@law.leidenuniv.nl |

• Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain News - 12 January 2024

  Hundreds of beautiful and timeless photos by Emmy Andriesse, one of the most important Dutch photographers of the twentieth century, are now freely accessible for everyone and can be used for research, education or other purposes. Large parts of Andriesse's oeuvre are already available online via Digital…

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060

• Web-archiving and digital archives: Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia News - 26 April 2019

  On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia.

• Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age News - 16 July 2018

  An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). On behalf of Leiden University…

• ‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ News - 11 January 2024

  Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…

• Experience the university and student life in the Leiden Special Collections News - 21 January 2021

  With the thematic programme 'Student@University', Leiden University Libraries illuminates the rich past of the university and its students. Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures will be organised around this theme, especially for the interested public, and various blogs, videos…

• ‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’ News - 27 May 2024

  Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always remained fascinated by her 17th-century series, for which she feels so much love. ‘I kept seeing different, new things.’

• Wolves in the Netherlands feed mainly on wild animals – but also target grazing cattle in areas with less prey News - 20 May 2025

  Wolves in the Netherlands mainly feed on wild animals such as wild boar and red and roe deer. But in areas such as Drenthe where these are scarce they also prey on free-roaming cattle used for nature conservation

• Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections News - 8 April 2021

  More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…

• Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital Collections News - 1 December 2020

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than 20.000 maps, atlases and topographical prints and drawings available in Digital Collections. With this, a significant part of one of the largest and most important collections of maps and atlases in the Netherlands has now been made digitally available…

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  Sophie van Rijn Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  srijn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bernet Elzinga Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  elzinga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273745

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274167

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  Maria Boletsi Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.boletsi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272357

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  Olaf van Vliet Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  o.p.van.vliet@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278551

• Ancient Near East Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Ancient Near East Studies. Last update: October 2020