Roos van Oosten is an assistant professor in Medieval and Urban Archaeology at Leiden University. She has a broad research interest reflected in numerous publications on diverse topics: sanitation management, the textile industry, cemeteries and burial practices, historical cooking, ceramics and environmental…

Ann Brysbaert is Professor in Ancient technology, crafts and materials at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Joanita Vroom is Professor in Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia, specializing in the material culture of the 7th to 19th centuries.

Sara Polak is a University Lecturer in American Studies and Modern English Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She is PI of the ERC Project Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028.

Stijn Bussels is Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and Professor of Art history, especially before 1800.

Edwin Bakker is professor in Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. His fields of research are radicalisation, jihadi terrorism and in particular profiles of (jihadi) terrorists. In addition, his research is focussed on dealing with (fear of) terrorism…

Anne Heyer is an Assistant Professor in modern history with a research interest in the ideas and practices of political participation in different European countries (1800-today). She works on political parties, populism, social movements and democracy in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain).…

Assistant Professor Daan Weggemans researches contemporary and digital security, cybercrime, extremism and conceptual thinking at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA).

Sylvestre Bonnet studies the (photo)chemistry of metal-based molecules in biological and biomimetic environment. By combining bioinorganic chemistry and photochemistry his group makes new light-activatable prodrugs for use as targeted anticancer agents with minimal side effects. Another part of the…

Nadia Bouras is a historian with a specialization in the history of Moroccan migration. Holding a PhD in history from Leiden University, she serves as an assistent professor in social and migration history at the same institution. Bouras is closely affiliated with NIMAR, the Netherlands Institute in…

Elsa Mertala is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. She is part of the ERC project Diversity Outdoors: Embodied Ethnoracial Inequalities and Outdoor Recreation in Europe.

Rita Sousa-Silva is an ecologist interested in investigating the links between urban green spaces, biodiversity, and human well-being.

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

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

Suzanne Klare is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

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…

Aritri Dutta is an external PhD candidate of literature specializing in postcolonial fiction, with a focused interest in decolonizing epistemologies within literary criticism. Her research explores alternative frameworks for literary knowledge production, aiming to develop a

Hester Groot is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. She is a historical sociolinguist, focusing on the language of the poor in Late Modern Scotland. Her research specifically looks at pauper letters, written by the poor to request relief from local authorities across Scotland. As part of…

Costanza Franceschini, postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Institute, explores Chinese development cooperation, infrastructure geopolitics, labor, and future-making in Africa.

Hanum Atikasari is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Catherine Wood is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. She is a member of Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe’s US Foreign Policy and Liberalism research group, which is funded by a Vidi grant from the NWO. Within the group, she focuses on modernization and development.

Djibrila Tetereou is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.