Carmen Van den Bergh is assistant professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department, track leader for Italian in the MA Literary Studies and quartermaster for the new BA programme Modern Languages.…

Francianne Dos Santos Velho is a lecturer and external Ph.D. candidate at the Academic Language Center and Centre for the Arts in Society, respectively.

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

Geert Onno Prins is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Holly Riach is a PhD candidate working on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Marcel Keurentjes is a historian who is specialized in Non-Western History, Cold War history and in Game studies. Currently he is working on his PhD about Cold War themed video games.

Ruben Poelstra is an external PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Tahir Abbas FAcSS is Professor of Radicalisation Studies at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. He graduated with a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick in 2001. His current research interests include Islamophobia and radicalisation, gender and…

Wenxuan Peng is PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Emma Grootveld is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Adriana Churampi Ramirez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

David Ehrhardt studies governance and institutional change in Africa, with a focus on the role of non-state leaders (such as traditional and religious leaders) in promoting changes that enhance development. He is also co-lead of the Learning Mindset innovation project, which develops and researches…

Ernst van Alphen is a professor emeritus of of Literary Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Helen Westgeest is a Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…

I am a social anthropologist, trained at Harvard (BA) and SOAS, University of London (MARes, PhD), with a broad interest in urban spaces and the forces that shape our lives in and around them. I have conducted fieldwork in North, Western and East Africa on topics ranging from informal housing, gendered…

Robbert Striekwold is a PhD student in the History of Biology at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research project concerns the history of ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th century.

Alex Reuneker is an Assistant Professor (UD) in Linguistics at Leiden University. His PhD concerned conditionals ('if-then sentences') in Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics — topics he continues to research this day. He also studies factors in Dutch verb-spelling errors. He teaches courses…

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

Nike van Helden is an external PhD and Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. With a background in Latin American Studies, Nike has specialized in literary analysis, and Cuban literature in particular.

Paul Hudson is Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Sustainability. He is a Dutch-American academic, and has been in the Netherlands since 2010 where he has considerable experience managing and leading educational programs across the university landscape. His teaching and research in environmental…

Mark Dechesne's research is primarily focused on developing basic knowledge regarding human judgment, decision making, and beliefs, and the study of various societal questions in which these processes play an important role. The combination of basic principles of decision making and engaged social research,…

Ab de Jong is Professor of Comparative Religion at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Peter Verhaar is Digital Scholarship Librarian and University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Onur Ada is a lecturer at International Studies.