Many European citizens feel connected to the European Union and place trust in it, Eva Grosfeld found in her PhD research. Yet around a quarter do not identify with the EU at all. How can the EU regain their trust?

Laurens van Apeldoorn is an assistant professor of tax law at Leiden University.

Leonor Faber-Jonker (1987) is a historian, author, and artist. She was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017).

Liesbet Nyssen is PhD candidate at LIAS.

Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.

Thijs Brocades Zaalberg is Professor by Special Appointment of Military History at the Leiden University Institute for History and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

Timur Khan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Joaquin Fernandez Abara is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Gabriel Veppo de Lima is a Scholarship PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

Li-fan Lee is a PhD candidate of intercultural philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University since July 2022. He is interested in human culture and philosophical thoughts in their most general sense across temporal and geographical boundaries, and is dedicated to clear-eyed philosophical…

Academics regularly face threats, intimidation and abuse. The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) therefore launched the WetenschapVeilig platform on 7 November 2022.

Nancy C. Kula is Professor and Chair of African Linguistics. Her research interests focus on a range of topics in African and General Linguistics with a focus on Bantu Languages investigating phonology, morphology, tone and their interfaces. She also works on Language Policy in Africa, specifically…

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.…

Joanne Stolk is a Lecturer in Greek papyrology and Coptic connected to the Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society and the Leiden Papyrological Institute.

Pablo Merayo Montes is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History researching Dutch guest workers in Spain during the eighteenth century.

My research revolves around philosophy, intellectual history and Islamic studies, and broad subjects surrounding the humanities i.e., philosophy of religions and worldviews, religious studies, hermeneutics, and ethics.

Maia Casna is a PhD candidate in palaeopathology.

Education

Academics are increasingly facing threats, harassment and hate speech following public appearances. The Dutch universities – united in the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) – is now adopting a number of national measures, from a zero-tolerance policty to psychosocial help for vic…

Simon Willmetts is Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He is a cultural historian interested in the history of secrecy, intelligence, surveillance and digital privacy. His research focusses upon the wider social and cultural impact of secret intelligence…

Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold…

Education

Bleda Düring is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Lucas Gahrmann is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Michael Newton is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Danny Jol has been employed as a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure and as a PhD candidate by the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University since 2024.

The first results of the National Student Survey (Nationale Studenten Enquête: NSE) reveal that students at Leiden University are satisfied with their study programme.

S.J. (Sil) Douma MA LLB (2001) studied Classics at Leiden University and obtained his degree cum laude in 2024.

Brian McGarry is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. His research covers general international law topics, as well as the design, practice, and conceptual coherence of international courts and tribunals.

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

Nina Jaspers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Jennifer Swerida is Assistant Professor in the Archaeology of West Asia.

Bruno Allahissem is a PhD candidate at the Institute of History and the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH).

Anisa Nuranisa is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Daphne Engel is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

José María achieved a BA degree in Ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and an MA in Anthropological Sciences at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).