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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten Jansen24 April 2020On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Paper Salvador Santino Regilme receives "Best Conference Paper Award"09 March 2020
Salvador Santino Regilme's paper “One Great Nation Under Trump? Global Human Rights in Distress Amidst American Decline” has received the "Best Confer...
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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award05 March 2020Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently worki...
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Sam de Schutter wins the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize02 March 2020Sam de Schutter won the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 2019 for his article “A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, an...
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Ineke Sluiter receives honorary degree from the University of Bristol21 February 2020Ineke Sluiter received an honorary degree from the University of Bristol on 18 February 2020. In the Wills Memorial Building, she addressed young doct...
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes20 February 2020Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Nether...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers20 February 2020Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...
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Willemijn Tuinstra wins the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt-thesis prize for History30 January 2020Willemijn Tuinstra has won the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt-award for History 2020 with her Master Thesis 'Conscience & connections. Marcellus Fr...
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LUCDH awards Small Grant research funds for 202023 January 2020The Leiden University Centre for the Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is delighted to announce this year's recipients of a Small Grant award. These awards t...
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Collaborative International Research Grant for dr. Corey Williams20 January 2020
Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Christianity) has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the Am...
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2019 Hall of fame07 January 2020Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy10 December 2019Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documents10 December 2019Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English m...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers10 December 2019The European Research Council has awarded ERC Consolidator Grants to four researchers from Leiden. These grants of up to 2m euros will enable them to ...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich06 December 2019Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...