Leiden University guides PhD candidates step by step from the start to the defence. You will find more information here about admission, the PhD track, and completion, as well as answers to questions such as: what conditions must I meet? What requirements must my dissertation meet? And what is involved…

Paul van Els is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Professor Jean-Pierre van der Rest joined the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School in September 2014. Van der Rest (1972) studied Managerial Economics at the University of Durham (UK) and received a PhD from Oxford Brookes University (UK). Professor Van der Rest is a versatile scholar…

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My research themes are Korean syntax, critical discourse analysis, second language acquisition in Korean, and teaching Korean as a foreign language. My current research project aims to investigate how the discourse construction of inter-Korean summits in the South Korean press has diachronically changed…

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

Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic. Her research concentrates on recovering the experiences of Muslims and non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, using the vast stores of radically under-used documents surviving from the early Islamic world. Professor Sijpesteijn is PI of the NWO funded VICI research…

Matthew Frear is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History. He teaches and supervises students on the BA International Studies, MA International Relations, BA Russian Studies, and MA Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. His main fields of research are Russian and Eurasian politics and international…

Dr. Astrid Vandendaele is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media and media linguist at Leiden University’s Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on (online) news production processes, changing language norms in the media, and (sub-)editing practices.

Martijn Kitzen is professor in Military Studies with expertise in irregular warfare and special operations. He combines academic research with operational experience in NATO, UN, and multinational missions across conflict zones like Afghanistan and the Sahel.

Arash Mohammadavvali is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

My research revolves around philosophy, intellectual history and Islamic studies, and broad subjects surrounding the humanities i.e., philosophy of religions and worldviews, religious studies, hermeneutics, and ethics.

Rieneke Sonnevelt is a PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Sara Polak is a University Lecturer in American Studies and Modern English Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She is PI of the ERC Project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028.

My work lies at the intersection of political economy, political geography, development studies, and critical geopolitics. I am particularly interested in South-South relations, China’s global footprint (with a specific focus on China’s engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean), conflict around…

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.

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Limin Teh (PhD, Chicago, 2014) is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Leiden University. Her research examines industrial work, capital, and empire in modern East Asia, with a focus on mining, global labor standards, and reproductive labor.

Aya Ezawa is a sociologist and University Lecturer in Modern Japan studies. Her research examines social inequality and differentiation based on oral history interviews. In her research, she has examined the gendered character of social class and social mobility in the context of the life stories of…

Jeffrey Fynn-Paul is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Crystal Ennis is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Crystal is a scholar of Global Political Economy whose research examines the political economy of dependency on hydrocarbon revenue and foreign labour in Gulf economies. With a regional focus on the Arabian…

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I am a social anthropologist, trained at Harvard (BA) and SOAS, University of London (MARes, PhD), with a broad interest in urban spaces and the forces that shape our lives in and around them. I have conducted fieldwork in North, Western and East Africa on topics ranging from informal housing, gendered…

Yinzhi Zhang is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Rizal Shidiq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is an economist by training with primary fields in development economics and monetary theory, and secondary field public choice. His current research topics are on political connections in developing countries,…

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

Ben Arps is a Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Aleena Karim is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She works on film narratology.

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

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

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Salvador Santino Regilme (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary researcher of International Relations and human rights, and he is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines…