I am a researcher, writer, and musician. I work on play, new media, art and popular culture. This serves as a basis for narrative essays and audio stories in which I intertwine personal experiences with a reconstruction of seemingly insignificant historical moments or cultural events. I move back and…

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

Jan Wim Buisman is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

Marika Keblusek is an Associate Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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…

Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is a university lecturer at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her background is in Lusophone Studies and in her research on postcolonial cultural identities she combines cultural analysis, in-depth interviews and creative participatory methods.

Pieter ter Keurs (1956) is professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the faculties of Archaeology and Humanities. Ter Keurs is also Academic Director of the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development. He specializes in critical museums studies and the study of material culture. He wants to…

Didem Yerli is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Mink W. van IJzendoorn is a PhD candidate and is involved in teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. He studies cycles of socioeconomic innovation and decline across the Mediterranean world. Mink’s research revolves around premodern pottery, most notably transport amphorae. Thematically, he…

Dr. Tingting Hui is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University, specializing in critical theory, contemporary literature and arts, and the philosophy of language. Her research spans diverse areas, including care ethics, multilingualism, and translation theory. She has received multiple awards, such…

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

Casper de Jonge is a Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research concentrates on Greek Literature in the Roman World, Ancient Migrant Literature, Ancient Literary Criticism, Classical Rhetoric, the Sublime, and the Reception of Antiquity…

Lasse van den Dikkenberg is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ronny Boogaart is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He is a Dutch language scholar and linguist. His expertise is the grammar of Dutch, as well as how people strategically use and misuse language to achieve their goals. Together with two colleagues, he recently published…

The central question of my research is: Which syntactic properties do all languages have in common, which properties are variable and which associations are there between these syntactic variables? The goal of this research is to contribute to a theory of natural language that explains the range and…

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Martijn van Ette is a PhD-candidate at Leiden's Institute for History. Being part of Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe's NWO-funded project that focusses on American foreign policy and (il)liberalism, he focuses on Southeast Asia and the perceptions that shaped America's strategic interpretations of the region.

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…

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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.…

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…

Rens Tacoma is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

I am a Veni (NWO) post-doctoral researcher within the Human Origins and Material Culture Studies groups at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden. My research concerns primarily pyrotechnology in the Palaeolithic, with a focus on fire use and fire making by Neandertals and early modern humans. As an archaeologist,…

Peter Webb is University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. He specialises in early Arabic poetry and prose, combining philology, literary analysis, and anthropological approaches to examine how poetic, narrative, and historiographical traditions shaped…

Liesbeth Claes is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Paul van Trigt is university lecturer social history. His research and teaching are concerned with histories of in- and exclusion of people in multiple contexts in the modern period and the role of concepts such as human rights, the welfare state, religion, disability, ethnicity in these histories.

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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,…

Dario Fazzi is Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

Miko Flohr is a lecturer in Ancient History studying the social and economic history of the Greco-Roman world, with a special interest in urban commerce and everyday work in Roman Italy, particularly in Pompeii, Ostia and Rome. Educated as a classicist, and with a Ph.D. in archaeology, he teaches on…

Corey L. Williams (PhD, Edinburgh) is a University Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Christianity at Leiden University. He is also the Chair of Religious Studies Programmes and Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). Corey is a cultural anthropologist and African…

Dr. Mariana Françozo is Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.