Fransiskus Widiyarso doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

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

Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political…

Ben Arps is a Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture 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,…

Dr. Ritanjan Das is a university lecturer in contemporary South Asian politics at the Leiden Institute of Area Studies. His primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of political economy of development and political anthropology in India and South Asia. He has conducted extensive ethnographic…

Emma is a lecturer at the BA International Studies programme at Leiden University-Campus The Hague. She teaches first-year to third-year courses. Before joining academia, Emma was a social development worker for more than a decade. She took on roles in research, publication, advocacy, network coordination,…

If you want to travel for work to an area with a security risk country or area with the color code orange and/or red, you need prior permission from the university.

Wenlan Wang is a PhD candidate / guest at the Institute for Area Studies.

Fadly Rahman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. His research examines the role of local networks within the global botanical research network of Plantentuin Buitenzorg during the colonial and early postcolonial periods.

Deniz Tat is a Assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Wenjing Qiu is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

David Binns doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

Onur Ada is a lecturer at International Studies.

Ugur Derin is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Windu Yusuf is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Arthur Crucq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He lectures about topics such as art and anthropology, art theory, representation and style, regarding fields as diverse as architecture, ornament, painting, sculpture and textiles. In recent years he published…

Emmanuelle Radar is Assistant Professor in contemporary French and Francophone literature(s) and culture(s) (20th-21st c.) at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Coen van 't Veer is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. He specialises in (post)colonial literature and history, especially that of Indonesia. He focuses on how colonial strategies of inclusion and exclusion still permeate our post-colonial society. From colonial literature…

I am an Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) of Islam in South and Southeast Asia at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. In my work, I draw on ethnographic field research, training in contemporary critical theory, and literary studies in Javanese, Malay, and Arabic to investigate questions of…

Nainunis Aulia Izza is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Irina Ridzuan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Bart Verheijen is an Assistant Professor in Colonial and Global history, with a main research interest in the political culture and the development of national identities in the early nineteenth century in Europe and The Dutch Indies. He completed his PhD on Napoleonic history in 2017 and since then…

Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann is a scholarship PhD candidate at the History and International Studies Section, Institute for History, Leiden University. Her research focus is on Southeast Asian state’s foreign policy behavior in the contemporary American-Chinese great power rivalry. She researches foreign…

Daphne is a PhD candidate within the project One Among Zeroes |0100|: Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam. Currently.

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Abhishek Avtans- is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Pralay Kanungo is a University lecturer (assistant professor) at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Jennifer Swerida is Assistant Professor in the Archaeology of West Asia.