Roeland Emaus is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Aron van de Pol is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) the Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Walter Gam Nkwi is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

Jan Sleutels is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor Film, Literary and Media Studies at Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Tsolin Nalbantian is an Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History (with ius promovendi) at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Ksenia Fedorova is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Within the Modern and Contemporary cluster of LUCAS, she is affiliated with the Environmental Humanities sub-cluster.

Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. With a PhD in medical translation, her research intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration.…

Nivja de Jong is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. She holds a dual position at the Centre for Linguistics and the Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON). She supervises MA and PhD students on diverse topics in the field of L2 learning and…

Mark Driessen is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

I am an Assistant Professor in Machine Translation at the Leiden Centre for Linguistics. My research navigates disciplinary boundaries between translation studies, computational linguistics and machine learning, focusing on automatic subtitling, and language technologies for audiovisual translation…

I am a human geographer with expertise on urban and digital studies, contemporary Korea, and East Asia. I examine shifting forms of displacement at the intersection of class, gender, land, and technology. My projects are informed by critical urban theories, political economy, and feminist thoughts.

Dr Csilla Ariese is temporarily filling in for Dr Mariana Françoco as leader of the ERC Starting Grant BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).

In an article for The Conversation, University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe comments on the recent elections in the United States and what they mean for President Donald Trump’s position.

The White House has recently released its national security strategy. University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in The Conversation what we can learn from the document.

University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains on France 24 how alleged fraud in Minnesota is being used by Trump as an argument to target Somalis.

University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe commented on the BBC regarding Donald Trump’s plans to exclude South Africa from the G20.

Associate professor Eric Storm’s book on nationalism has been reviewed in two Spanish newspapers. Three newspaper published interviews with Storm.

In an article for The Conversation, university lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains how the shooting of nurse Alex Pretti has affected the pro-gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA).

At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everything they have learned in the past two and a half years.’

Bram Caers is an Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch literature (up to 1600). His research interest include (urban) historiography in the vernacular, early modern manuscript culture and the interplay between manuscript and print, epic literature, rhetoricians, and medievalism. He teaches courses on…

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

Athan Idul is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Edwin de Vette is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Femke Lippok works within the Rural Riches project, concerned with the recovery of the early medieval economy after the collapse of Roman authority in the North.

Nathalie Brusgaard is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Martijn Manders is Professor by Special Appointment in Underwater archaeology and maritime heritage management at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…

Anna Marhold is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Her specialization is international economic law, with a particular focus on international trade law at the intersection of energy and environmental regulat…

Climate and human rights will again become major issues on the world stage by the end of 2023. The new series of lunch seminars by the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seamlessly tie into these events. All Leiden researchers and students are…

Christoph Pieper is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. After having studied Latin, German and Italian Literature in Bonn and Florence, he has been a Universiy Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University since 2006. His main research interests are Cicero and his afterlife (a theme…