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• A connected history of eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860–1948) Research output

  This special issue of Contemporary Levant critically explores, at a micro and macro level, the structural role and religious, cultural and political interactions of the Greek-Orthodox, Melkite and Syriac communities in late Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine.

• State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941 Research project

  This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.

• A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968 Research output

  A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968

• European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history (1920-1950) Research project

  This project aims to revisit the relationship between the European cultural agenda and the local identity formation process, and social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine, when the British ruled via the Mandate. What was the role of culture in European policies…

• and between Empires and Nation-States | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 46/14 Research output

  In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by…

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  Femme Gaastra Professor emeritus Maritime History

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.s.gaastra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Randal Sheppard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.c.sheppard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2656

• The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages Research project

  The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.

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  Wim Boot Professor emeritus of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Language

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.j.boot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Tiffany Bousard PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.v.c.bousard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

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  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.h.c.kern@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2764

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  Louis Sicking University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717

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  Anne-Isabelle Richard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1399

• Re-Scaling Security: Histories and Practices of Trans-Local Cooperation Research project

  This project is part of a broader research agenda aiming to better understand the relationships between the development of contemporary security concerns and the evolution of forms of security cooperation and crisis governance.

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  Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.atabaki@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Luuk de Ligt Professor of Ancient History

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.de.ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2669

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  Ariadne Schmidt Professor by special appointment of History of Urban Culture, in particular of Leiden

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.schmidt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2502

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  Ben Schoenmaker Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.schoenmaker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Evelien Walhout Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276412

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  Willem Otterspeer Professor emeritus of University History

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.otterspeer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Esther Zwinkels PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Marcella Schute PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Nicolette Mout Professor emeritus of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.e.h.n.mout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

• New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880 Research project

  From 1550 onwards, a great interest in the natural world developed across Europe. This interest was not only stimulated by a growing knowledge of local flora and fauna, but also by the import of numerous exotic animal and plant species. Think, for instance, of researches and collectors like Gessner…

• Captured on paper: fish books, natural history and questions of demarcation in eighteenth-century Europe (ca. 1680–1820) Research output

  On the28th of September Didi van Trijp successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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  Lauren Lauret Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.b.lauret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772

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  John Kegel Guest Researcher

  African Studies Centre

  j.b.kegel@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume I, Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' Research output

  A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe.

• Tracing Expertise in Politics: A Digital History of Technocracy in the Dutch House of Representatives, 1917-1994 Event - 25 November 2025

  Lecture

• Book: Sonic Modernities in the Malay World, A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s) Research output

  Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern.

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  Jeffrey Fynn-Paul University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.fynn-paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9191

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  Jos Gommans Professor of Colonial and Global History

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.l.gommans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2167

• Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870. Research project

  What did colonial officials and missionaries think they were doing?

• Ayşegül Keskin Çolak’a Armağan Tarih ve Edebiyat Yazıları [Essays of History and Literature in Memory of Ayşegül Keskin Çolak] Research output

  Despite not focusing on a particular theme, the academic contributions in this book include essays of history and literature ranging from the Middle Ages to 1970s, from Europe and America to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

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  Wim Willems Professor emeritus of Social History

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.h.willems@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 071 527 1646

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  Bianca Angelien Claveria PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.a.claveria@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4165

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  Ann Marie Wilson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9355

• Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 3:

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  Marlou Schrover Professor of Economic and Social History

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2786

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  Christine Mertens PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.m.mertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4692

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  Leo Lucassen Professor of Global Labour and Migration History

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.a.c.j.lucassen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2724

• Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983 Research output

  Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018

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  Rafal Matuszewski Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.matuszewski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2701

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  Dario Fazzi Professor by special appointment Transatlantic Environmental History

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.fazzi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272704

• Political Legitimacy under Debate: Democracy and Authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s Research project

  Debates on political legitimacy in Dutch parliament in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Leiden University Library

  b.s.van.der.steen@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 527 6338

• Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders Research output

  In 'Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800', Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, both of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and also affiliated with the History Institute of Leiden University, assemble an internationally acclaimed selection of authors,…

• Digital skills at History News - 18 June 2021

  In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…

• Queen Beatrix writing history News - 29 January 2013

  This is a good time for it to happen, in the opinion of Professor of Fatherlands History, Henk te Velde. The abdication of Queen Beatrix is a good starting point for celebrating 200 years of the Dutch monarchy, in 2013. Te Velde is a member of the National Committee for 200 Years of Monarchy: 'By standing…