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Jan Kolen

Dean / Professor Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Name
Prof.dr. J.C.A. Kolen
Telephone
+31 71 527 1284
E-mail
j.c.a.kolen@arch.leidenuniv.nl

Jan kolen is Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology and Professor of the History and Heritage of European Cultural Landscapes.

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Professor Jan (J.C.A.) Kolen (1962) studied Archaeology at Leiden University. After graduating, he worked for the RAAP Foundation at the University of Amsterdam and the NWO Pioneer Project 'Changing view of Ice Age foragers' (Leiden University). In 2005, he obtained his PhD (cum laude) with his dissertation on the ‘Biography of the Landscape’, a new approach to landscape history. Since 2000 he has been affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, initially as a lecturer, then as Belvedere Professor of Heritage of Town and Country, and since 2009 as Professor of the History and Heritage of European Cultural Landscapes. In addition, Jan Kolen was Director of the CLUE Interfaculty Research Institute (Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment). Since 2013 he is Professor in Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at Leiden University and he is director at the Centre for Global Heritage and Development from Leiden University, the Technical University of Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Dean / Professor Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

  • Faculteit Archeologie

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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
Room number A 2.20

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