Dr. José Carlos G. Aguiar
Department of Latin American Studies TCLA

Keywords: illegal commodity chains; borders; security policies; piracy; urban space; Latin America 

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Dr. Cátia Antunes
Institute for History (Economic and Social History)

Keywords: early modern globalisation; commercial and social networks world wide; cross-cultural business networks in the Atlantic

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Dr. Gabrielle van den Berg
Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Persian Language and Literature)

Keywords: Persian epic tradition; literary history of Central Asia; cultural heritage and history of Ismailis of Tajik Badakshan;Pamir languages

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Prof. dr. John Bintliff
Faculty of Archaeology (Mediterranean)

Keywords: Mediterranean archaeology; landscape archaeology; archaeological theory; classical archaeology; (post)-medieval archaeology

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Dr. Lindsay Black
School of Asian Studies (China)

Keywords: East/Southeast Asia; international relations theory and East Asian regionalism; contemporary maritime affairs in East/Southeast Asia, human security in East Asia; Japan’s international relations

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Dr. Remco Breuker
School of Asian Studies (Korea)

Keywords: Northeast Asia and its interactions with Asia and Eurasia; Mongol Empire; global history

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Prof.dr. Mirjam de Bruijn
African Studies Center Leiden

Keywords: Cameroon; Chad; Mali; nomadism; youth and children; social (in)security; poverty marginality/social and economic exclusion violence slavery and human rights

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Prof. dr. Léon Buskens
School of Middle Eastern Studies

Keywords: Islam; Islamic law; Morocco; anthropology of Muslim societies

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Dr. E.B. (Eithne) Carlin

Languages and Cultures of Native America, LUCL

Keywords: Linguistics; anthropological linguistics; Amerindian languages; Cariban languages; Arawakan languages; Guianas

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Prof. dr. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
School of Asian Studies (Japan)

Keywords: culinary globalisation; transnational connections and war

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Dr. Jan Gerrit Derksen 
Institute for Area Studies (Assyriology)

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Assyrian trade, immigrant-related change

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Dr. Nathal M. Dessing
Institute for Religious Studies

Keywords: Islam in Europe; rituals; anthropology of Islam; religious studies

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Dr. Renzo S. Duin
Faculty of Archaeology

Keywords: Amazonia, the Guianas, indigenous people, socio-political organization, ritual landscapes, ethno-archaeology

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Dr. Bleda During
Faculty of Archaeology

Keywords: Pre- and protohistory of Asia Minor; Neolithisation; Chalcolithic Societies; Reconstructing Communities; Archaeological Surface Survey; Settlement Analysis; Archaeology of Imperialism

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Dr. Alex Geurds
Faculty of Archaeology (Caribbean and Amazonia)

Keywords: Central America; social history of interaction and exchange in Lower Central America during the pre-Hispanic period; increased collaboration between archaeology and anthropology

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Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald
Institute for History, Africa Studies Center Leiden

Keywords: Rwanda; Namibia; Ghana; Niger; genocide; trans-desert trade; pan-Africanism; spirit possession; Dutch development cooperation; Africa in the context of globalisation

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Dr. Mohammed Ghaly
Institute for Religious Studies

Keywords: Islam; medical ethics; religion and science; Muslims in the West; Western bioethics

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Dr. Jos Gommans
Institute for History, School of Asian Studies

Keywords: South Asian history; colonial history; world history; globalisation; geopolitics; overseas expansion; history and sources of the VOC; South Asian Islam; nomads

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Prof. dr. Chris Goto-Jones
Leiden University College The Hague

Keywords: Comparative Philosophy; history of political and ethical thought; conceptions of violence and penitence in Modern Japanese thought; techno-politics 

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A.K. (Anna) Grasskamp Mphil

Institute for Cultural Disciplines

Keywords: art history from a comparative perspective; material culture studies; collecting practices in early modern China and Europe

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Prof. dr. Bas ter Haar Romeny 
Religion (Old Testament and Eastern Christian Religions) 

Keywords: Byzantine and Coptic orthodox; identity and migration; Christian minorities in the Middle East

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Prof. dr. Frans A.J. de Haas
Institute for Philosophy

Keywords: ancient philosophy; philosophy and the sciences; globalisation by teaching

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Prof. dr. Corinne Hofman
Faculty of Archaeology (Caribbean Archaeology)

Keywords: Caribbean; island archaeology; mobility and exchange; pre-colonial cosmovision; Antillean and Aruban heritage

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Dr. Sjef Houppermans
Institute for Cultural Disciplines

Keywords: francophonie

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Dr. Isabel Hoving
Institute for Cultural Disciplines (Literary Studies) 

Keywords: interculturality, globalization, gender, sexuality, nature, postcolonial literary theory, theories of migration

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Dr. Rivke Jaffe
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Keywords: Caribbean; urban anthropology; cities as nodes in global networks; criminal organizations

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Prof. dr. Maarten Jansen
Faculty of Archaeology (Mesoamerican and Andean Archaeology)

Keywords: archaeology; Mexico; indigenous people; Indian cultures; Mixtecs

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Prof. dr. O.E. Kaper (Olaf)
School of Middle Eastern Studies (Egyptology)

keywords: Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt

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Dr. Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Institute for Philosophy

Keywords: historiography of science; philosophy; localism; theories of delocalisation; universality; globality

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Dr. Vincent Lagendijk
Institute for History

Keywords: transnational European infrastructures; international rivers; dams; electricity

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Prof. dr. Luuk de Ligt 
Institute for History (Ancient History)

Keywords: Social and economic history, demography, roman republic, legal sources, epigraphy

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Drs. Sjoerd van de Linde, MA
Faculty of Archaeology (World Heritage)

Keywords: Socio-cultural and political aspects of western archaeological practices in postcolonial contexts

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Prof. dr. Leo Lucassen
Institute for History

Keywords: migration; integration; urbanisation; global history; comparative history; police and criminality; social control; bureaucratisation; aliens policy; gypsies and travelling groups

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Dr. Ethan Mark
School of Asian Studies (Japan)

Keywords: modern Japanese history; Japanese imperialism; social and cultural history of the 1920s-1940s; modern Indonesian history; pan-Asianism; colonization and decolonization 

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Dr. Liesbeth Minnaard
Institute for Cultural Disciplines

Keywords: literature of migration; postcolonial studies; multiculturality; comparative literature

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Prof. dr. H.L. Murre-van den Berg
Leiden Institute for Religious Studies

Keywords: ‘non-western’ forms of Christianity; Middle East; global interactions within Christianity and between Christianity and other religions

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Dr. Carolyn Nakamura 
Institute for History (Archaeology and Heritage) 

Keywords: material culture; social archaeology; anthropology of magic; Mesopotamia; Anatolian Neolithic; poltics of heritage; informal communities; Mumbai 

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Prof. dr. Peter Pels
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Keywords: ethics; politics in Africa; modern religions; colonial history; political imagination

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Iva Pesa 
Institute for History 

Keywords: Technology and consumption in Central Africa; social history of the Mwinilunga district (Zambia)

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Prof.dr. Frank Pieke 
Leiden Insitute for Area Studies (Modern China) 

Keywords: Modern Chinese studies; social anthropology; Chinese communist party; administrative modernization; local politics; migration and overseas communities; migration policies and development

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Drs. Maria Riep 
Leiden Insitute for Area Studies (Central Asia) 

Keywords: Early Islamic Central Asia, frontiers; conquest; mobility;archaeology

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Dr. Umar Ryad
Institute for Religious Studies

Keywords: Pan-Islamist networks; Salafiyya; reformist Islam; interbellum; anti-colonialism

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Drs. Annemarie Samuels 
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociolog 

Keywords: Urban anthropology, disasters, memory, Indonesia

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Dr. Maria van der Schaar
Institute for Philosophy

Keywords: religious toleration; freedom of speech

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Dr. Frank Schipper
Institute for History

Keywords: transnational tourism, infrastructure history, road networks, telegraphy, European integration

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Mw Prof.dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
Institute for History

Keywords: history of gender, ethnicity and class; history of migration and social differences

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Dr. L.J.M. Seymour
Political Science

Keywords: politics of self-determination; the role of legitimacy in world politics; civil wars and insurgency

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Dr. Louis Sicking
Institute for History (Medieval History)

Keywords: late medieval and early modern low countries (including the Dutch Revolt); maritime history; history of discoveries and European expansion; urban history

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Prof. dr. Petra Sijpesteijn
School of Middle Eastern Studies

Keywords: papyrology; Egypt; early Islam; medieval mediterranean history

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Prof. dr. Ineke Sluiter
Institute for Cultural Disciplines

Keywords: cultural identity; ancient ideas on language; freedom of speech; public debates and the use of value discourse; connection between classics and the modern world

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Carolien Stolte, MPhil
Institute for History (Modern History)

Keywords: South Asian history; international relations history; independence movements and decolonization

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Dr. Miguel John Versluys
Classical Archaeology

Keywords: archaeology; romanisation; ancient globalisation; Rome and the Other

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Prof dr. Willem J.H. Willems
Faculty of Archaeology (World Heritage)

Keywords: cultural heritage; heritage resource management; world heritage; provincial Roman archaeology

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Dr. Dorien Zandbergen
Faculty of Social Sciences (Anthropology)

Keywords: anthropology of information society, technology, New Age spirituality, counterculture, hacker culture, futurism, Internet of Things

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Prof. dr. Kitty Zijlmans
School of Art History (Institute for Cultural Disciplines)

Keywords: contemporary art (history) and theory; methodology; art and globalisation; interculturalisation; World Art Studies

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Dr. H.T. Zurndorfer
School of Asian Studies (China)

Keywords: economic history of China; comparative global history; gender in global history

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