Steven Lauritano is an art and architectural historian, and assistant professor at Leiden University. His research examines the intersection of architecture and antiquarianism, the history of architectural preservation, and the exchanges that have animated architectural-history-writing and design. Before…

Marlisa den Hartog is university lecturer at the Institute for History

Anita van Dissel is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Helen Steele is a lecturer at International Studies.

Rens Tacoma is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Marion Pluskota is assistant professor in Social and Economic History specialized in crime history and the history of prostitution/sex work.

Dennie Oude Nijhuis is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Eileen van der Burgh is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Louis Sicking lectures medieval and early modern history at the Leiden University Institute for History and is Aemilius Papinianus professor of History of Public International Law, at VU University Amsterdam.

Randal Sheppard is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.

Ben Schoenmaker was Professor by special appointment of Military History from 2012 to 2024, on behalf of the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Anne-Isabelle Richard is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Ariadne Schmidt is professor by special appointment of the History of urban culture, in particular of Leiden (the Magdalena Moons Chair, funded by the Magdalena Moons Chair Foundation) and associate professor Economic and Social History. She is also Chair of Education of the bachelor, master and research…

John's research focuses on the history of colonial concessionary companies in sub-Saharan Africa between roughly 1880-1960.

Bianca Angelien Claveria is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, and a member of Dr. Fenneke Sysling's ERC Starting Grant project COMET: Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia.

Rafał Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History.

Christine Mertens (1994) is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.

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

I am a historian of political history working on the impact of colonialism on Dutch and British political practice. Whereas most political historians deal with change and innovation, I am interested in how the political elite (re)claimed power after experiencing disruption. I cross historiographical…

Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Comparative Urban History at the Institute for History.

Ann Marie Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University College. She received her BA from the University of Michigan’s Residential College, her MA from San Francisco State University, and her PhD from Harvard University. At LUC she teaches courses in historical methods and environmental…

Stijn Bussels is Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and Professor of Art history, especially before 1800.

Dario Fazzi is Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

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

Robert Stein is a senior university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Jos Gommans is a historian with expertise on the early modern history of South Asia in its global interactions with the outside world of Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the European colonial empires.

Edmund Hayes gained his doctorate with honors from the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He works on early Islamic history, in particular Shiʿi history, focusing on the intersection of intellectual developments and social and political dynamics. He…

Dr.(mult.) Andrew DJ Shield is Assistant Professor of Migration History, and affiliated with the interdisciplinary research project “Social Citizenship and Migration.” He is the chair of Leiden’s LGBT+ Network. Shield specializes in sexuality, race, and diversity in Europe since 1945. He holds two…

Pieter Slaman is Leiden University's university historian, with support of the A.E. Cohen Foundation. He is also a specialist in the history of education. His book ‘De glazen Toren. De Leidse Universiteit 1970-2020’ covered the institutional and cultural developments at Leiden university since the 1…

Joost Augusteijn is Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History and Programme Chair of the BA International Studies and the Joint MA European Politics and Society.

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Bart van der Boom is university lecturer at the Institute for History.