News
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LUCDH awards Small Grant research funds for 2020 23 January 2020
The 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 Williams 20 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 fame 07 January 2020
Over 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 Academy 10 December 2019
Historian 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 documents 10 December 2019
Nadine 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 researchers 10 December 2019
The 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 Munich 06 December 2019
Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...
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Alice Twemlow wins Simon Mari Pruys prize for design criticism 28 November 2019
On Saturday November 16 Alice Twemlow was awarded the Simon Mari Pruys prize for design criticism for her essay ‘Conflicting Definitions of Key Terms’.
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KNAW Early Career Award for Carolien Stolte 06 November 2019
Carolien Stolte has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She received this award for her res...
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Berthe Jansen receives Early Career Award for research into ancient Tibet 06 November 2019
Berthe Jansen receives an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for her research on Buddhism and law in an...
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KNAW Early Career Awards for three Leiden researchers 05 November 2019
Three young researchers from Leiden have received an Early Career Award from KNAW for their innovative research. The award consists of the sum of 15,0...
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Victor Gijsbers new fellow of Leiden University Teachers’ Academy 15 October 2019
Victor Gijsbers, university lecturer in Philosophy, has been chosen as a fellow of the Leiden University Teachers' Academy. Over the next five years a...
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Frank Chouraqui wins Faculty Teaching Prize 13 September 2019
Frank Chouraqui, University Lecturer of Philosophy, received the Faculty Teaching Prize during the Opening of the Faculty Year in the City Auditorium....
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’ 12 September 2019
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-projec...
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Leonard Blussé receives prestigious Fukuoka Prize in Japan 11 September 2019
Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.