Her part-time job as a city guide in Dordrecht opened Lotte Hamm's eyes: not business administration, but history was her dream study. This semester she starts her bachelor's degree.

Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as 'extremely topical' because of the discussions about the decolonisation of the arts: 'Art teaches us not just about art, but also about contemporary…

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…

Master's student Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues is the winner of the KHMW Brewer Thesis Prize for History. He was awarded the prize for his research on donatism.

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…

Over the past few decades, China’s art market experienced an awe-inspiring transformation. During the Cultural Revolution, art collecting activities and art trade were outlawed. The first art auction did not take place in China until the early 1990s. Today China’s art auction market has become…

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.’

Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…

David Home Valenzuela is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Bálint Honos (1999) is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg. He is researching community organization and Black citizenship in antebellum California (1812-1861).

Femke Fakkeldij is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.

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Mariana Gaba is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Carlos Rilling Tenorio is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Nestor Marin Bravo is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Andrea Bravo Lee is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Louie Buana is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Tomás Díaz is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Melinda Susanto is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. Her current research investigates the circulations of medical knowledge and goods between the Indian Ocean and the early modern Dutch Republic.

Nicole Pereira Ríos is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Felipe Cousiño is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Maria Naranjo Olivares is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Macarena Alegria Garcia is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History

Mamadjibeye is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Carla Cisternas Guasch is a PhD candidate at the department of Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. She is also a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Arts at the Universidad Mayor, Chile.