Richard Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Nikki Mulder is a PhD candidate and teacher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Her dissertation 'Financing Afterlives' examines how racial inequality shapes the consumption and use of life insurance policies in New Orleans, USA. This project is…

Jenneke Evers has been connected to eLaw, Center for Law and Digital Technologies, as a external PhD candidate.

Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

Dr Marike van Aerde is Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department. Her research focuses on trade routes and exchange networks spanning from ancient Egypt to the 1st-millennium Indian Ocean. Her work includes ceramics and glass analyses, petroglyphic documentation, and methodological applications…

Wouter Kalf is a University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy

Irene Moretti is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University..

Since 2012, Hanneke Palmen works as Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Francien Dechesne is Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Technologies at eLaw. Next to her appointment at eLaw, she holds the endowed chair of “AI and Data for the Rule of Law” at Tilburg University.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Anna Notsu is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of the Leiden University.

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.

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.…

Hannah De Mulder is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Frank Chouraqui is a University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

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

Lucien van Beek is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on Comparative Indo-European linguistics (morphology, semantics, lexicography, etymology) and philology, especially regarding the oldest sources of Greek. He conducted a VENI project 'Unraveling…

Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in…

Suzan Verberne is professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University and a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS).

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

Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Humanities Lab consists of four modules, a Bachelor Honours Class and a concluding project. You will cross academic boundaries and view the world through the lens of Humanities.

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