Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Salvador Santino Regilme (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary researcher of International Relations and human rights, and he is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines…

Oussama Macnack is external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Tim is Assistent Professor at the department of Business Studies. His research focuses on the (business) economics fundamentals, especially the theory of the firm and the co-evolution of companies and markets in complexity economics.

Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Jue is a scholar of Chinese economy and Global Political Economy. With a regional focus on China, her areas of expertise include international political economy, development finance, international organisations, technology…

André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

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Corné van Rhee is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics.

Emma Schell is a member of the department of Economics.

Larissa is a PhD-candidate at the Department of Economics.

Giacomo Boffi is a former PhD candidate on Economics and Governance of Migration who successfully defended his PhD thesis on April 15, 2025.

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.

Hans Theunissen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

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.

Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones,…

Svetlana Kharchenkova is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

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.

Bianca Angelien Claveria is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, and a member of Dr. Fenneke Sysling's ERC Starting Grant project COMET: Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia.

Alp Yenen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He works primarily on the political history of modern Turkey and the Middle East. He is specialized on the turn of the 20th century, First World War, Interwar period, and the Cold War period. He also comments and…

Sofia de Jong was appointed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Company Law, part of the Institute of Private Law, in November 2023. Her empirical legal research focuses on the effectiveness of Dutch company law as an instrument for influencing behaviour to achieve sustainability goals.

Kate Brackney is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University. Her current research explores how aesthetic norms have developed for remembering the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity. She teaches courses in modern European intellectual and cultural history. Before coming to Leiden, she…

Areti Leventi is a PhD candidate in the Neanderthal Legacy research project.

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Alejandra Roche Recinos is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Linda Breeman’s research focuses on promoting health behaviour and lifestyle changes, specializing in (eHealth) intervention development and intervention implementation in complex systems.

Eduardo Alves Vieira is an Assistant Professor of Portuguese Language and Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He teaches at the BA/MA Latin American Studies programs and BA International Studies. Additionally, he supervises Ph.D. candidates, mostly working on queer linguisti…

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of the History and Culture of North America at Leiden University and executive director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg. He is mainly specialized in the history of slavery and its aftermath.

As a sociolinguist, I critically explore the ways in which language reflects, reinforces, or contests social inequalities, in the online and offline worlds. Passionate about languages, open science, and research-led, student-driven higher education, I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to the…

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…

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…

Hans Bos is lecturer at the Institute of Tax Law and Economics, Department of Business Studies since September 2016.

Johan Jol is a guest lecturer for the Department of Business Studies of the Leiden Law School. .

Benedictus van Broekhuizen is a lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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

Elena Paskaleva is assistant professor in Critical Heritage Studies of Asia and Europe at Leiden University. Her current research focuses on the material culture of Central Asia, and in particular on the history and socio-political importance of Timurid architecture. She is the author of Silk Road Cities…

Håvar Solheim is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

Janet Connor is a linguistic anthropologist and sociolinguist whose research explores how forms of listening become socially and politically meaningful, in both Norway and the Netherlands. She also teaches about and does research on multilingualism in cities. Since August 2021, she is an Assistant Professor…