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.

Christoph Pieper is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. After having studied Latin, German and Italian Literature in Bonn and Florence, he has been a Universiy Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University since 2006. His main research interests are Cicero and his afterlife (a theme…

Caelesta Braun's research expertise includes political advocacy, interest group politics, public decision-making, bureaucratic politics and regulatory governance. She studies the role of non-state stakeholders in public decision-making and regulation and how we can make sure to involve stakeholders…

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.

Gerrit-Jan Zwenne is a professor at eLaw@Leiden. He read law at Leiden University and was awarded his doctorate at the same university for his thesis on tax levies and information obligations. Gerrit-Jan specialises in telecommunication law and privacy law.

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

Sander Stolk is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts.

Janna Houwen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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

Martijn Manders is Professor by Special Appointment in Underwater archaeology and maritime heritage management at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Nadine Akkerman, FRHistS, MAE is a Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Thijs Bosker is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science. He uses laboratory and field techniques to study the impacts of contaminants on ecosystem health, with a focus on stress-on-stress scenarios. His research has taken him to Canada, the US, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, where he quantifies…

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

Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…

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.

Maja Vodopivec teaches several courses in Peace and Conflict Studies track of the World Politics major, and a course in Global History track of the Human Diversity major. Her research interest lies in postwar Japanese intellectual history and peace and conflict studies. Extension number: 8372

Johan Christensen's research focuses on the role of experts and expertise in public policy-making, both at the national and European levels.

Christopher Green is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Ana Cardozo de Souza is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

David Zetland researches the political-economy of water, the environment and the commons. As a university lecturer at Leiden University College, he teaches courses on economics, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the commons.