Anne Heyer is an Assistant Professor in modern history with a research interest in the ideas and practices of political participation in different European countries (1800-today). She works on political parties, populism, social movements and democracy in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain).…

Stefano Bellucci is university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Maja Vodopivec teaches several courses in Peace and Conflict Studies track of the World Politics major, and a course in Global History track of the Human Diversity major. Her research interest lies in postwar Japanese intellectual history and peace and conflict studies. Extension number: 8372

Karwan Fatah-Black (1981) is assistant professor at the department of Social and Economic History of Leiden University. His project, titled ‘Paths through slavery’ runs from the spring of 2016 to the fall of 2019.

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

Claire Weeda is University Lecturer and Director of Education at the Institute for History.

Akiko Tsujita is PhD candidate at LIAS

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Willem Zwalve is a professor at the Department of Legal History, associated with the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law.

Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?

Jiyan Ilbrink is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

Jacobine Melis is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

I am a scholar whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary United States. Though a historian by training, my work engages with insights from other disciplines, particularly international relations and American politics. I am currently the principal investigator on the NWO Vidi-funded project…

Leonor Alvarez Francés is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History that specializes in transnational history and digital tools for research in cultural history.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background of students and scientists, a new book about the Academy Building, and two new sculptures of female scientists, Ewine van Dishoek, Professor of Molecular…

Casper van Dijk is a PhD candidate researching the transformation of military as complex adaptive systems. His dissertation, Military Metamorphosis: Warfare in the Northern Netherlands, 1425–1560, reinterprets late medieval warfare through the lens of emergence and complex systems theory, offering an…

Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. He published on the medieval state of Koryo, Korean historiography, Northeast Asia and North Korea, as well as literary translations from Korean…

Carola Hein is Professor Water, Ports and Historic Cities at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Each research institute has its own dynamic. The Executive Board is visiting our institutes to find out what they are up to. On 24 June, it was the turn of the Institute for History. ‘History helps us make sense the present, whether through family stories, local issues or world politics.’

Marika Keblusek is an Associate Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Surya Suryadi is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Nadia Bouras is a historian with a specialization in the history of Moroccan migration. Holding a PhD in history from Leiden University, she serves as an assistent professor in social and migration history at the same institution. Bouras is closely affiliated with NIMAR, the Netherlands Institute in…

At the Dies Natalis Willem Otterspeer, Professor Emeritus of University History, presented the fourth and final volume of Groepsportret met Dame, his series on the history of Leiden University. De 'Strategie van de Aanpassing' covers the period 1876-1975. Otterspeer talked about his book in a podcast…

Matthew Broad is a Lecturer in the History of International Relations at Leiden. He has previously held positions as a Jean Monnet Scholar at the European Studies Centre, University of Pittsburgh, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Contemporary History and Political Science,…

Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.