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559 search results for “afrika history” in the Student website

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  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Ibrahim Harun Demirel

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia
• Katarzyna Cwiertka

  Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.

• Alisa van de Haar

  Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…

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  Lucinda Truijers-Jansen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Inge Ligtvoet

• Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen

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  Rob Cullum
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  Melania Brito Clavijo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Céline Zaepffel

  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.…

• Judith Naeff

  Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.

• Sarah Cramsey

  I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…

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  Isaac Scarborough Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Edmund Amann

  Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

• Vera Scepanovic

  Vera Scepanovic is a Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University. She was previously a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence and a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest.

• Ahab Bdaiwi

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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Amadou Adamou

  Amadou Adamou is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• Matthew Sung

• Jiaxuan Huang

  Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

• Koen van der Lijn

  Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.

• Yusra Abdullahi

  Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.

• Saskia Cohen-Willner

  Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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  Athanasios Stathopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Seraina Renz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gus Kraus PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Michel Wyss

  Michel Wyss is a PhD student at the Institute for History.

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  Tony van der Togt Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Ghulam Ali Murtaza

  Ali Murtaza is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

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  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Li-Fan Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ruben Eijkelenberg PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David André Anton Cina PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Luuk van de Vondervoort

• Robertus Benning

  Robertus Benning is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

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  Lun Jing External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Orson McMahon PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dimitris Kastritis Tutorial lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’ News - 9 June 2021

  After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…

• Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History Event - 13 November 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS Keynote

• Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons News - 28 November 2023

  From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’