Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
2024
|
Project |
Supervisors |
Trainees |
|
Dubious letters. The inauthentic epistles ascribed to Julian the Apostate (AD 361-363) |
Dr. Bert van den Berg
Dr. Rens Tacoma |
Elise Hoekstra
Joëlle Kraaijeveld |
|
Dr. Nadia Bouras
Dr. Paul van Trigt |
Eline van Miert
Vincent Korbee |
|
|
Prof. dr. Marina Terkourafi
Prof. dr. Petra Sijpesteijn |
Zoi Matsouka
Suzan Lucas |
|
|
Draining the Swamp - Wetlands, Insects, and Landscape Transformation in Europe, 1300-1600 |
Dr. Claire Weeda
Dr. Johannes Müller |
Claudia Moreira Calzadilla Nina Witteman |
|
Child’s Play: Ludic Culture in Early Modern French-Dutch Schoolbooks |
Dr. Alisa van de Haar
Dr. Céline Zaepffel |
Anna Blaak Sjoera Slooff |
|
Dr. Naomi Truan
Dr. Benjamin Storme |
Gráinne Deasy Georgia Lychnara |
|
|
Overhead, Underfoot, On Site: Understanding Infrastructures through Art |
Steven Lauritano Ph.D.
Dr. Karin de Wild |
Inaya Basu
Rebecca Billi |
|
Dr. Marion Pluskota
Dr. Peter Verhaar |
Carlijn Tetteroo
Daniëlle de Kurver |
2023
|
Project |
Supervisors |
Trainees |
|
Prof. Cátia Antunes
Dr. Gerhard de Kok |
Madelon Harmsen Giacomo Mastrogregori |
|
|
Dr. Maurits Meerwijk
Dr. Ethan Mark |
Jeroen van de Linde Thorsten Hopman |
|
|
Dr. Matthijs Westera
Prof. Jenny Doetjes |
Fenna Berger María del Mar Forero Mesa |
|
|
A Latin-Arabic Encounter: Leiden humanism and the East at the outset of Orientalism |
Dr. Peter Webb
Dr. Christoph Pieper |
Duncan Kampschuur Amina el-Kabary |
|
Dr. Diederik Smit
Dr. Maartje Janse
Prof. dr. Wim Voermans |
Jessie van Straaten Dies van der Marel |
|
|
Legal and Philosophical Perspectives on Climate Justice for Small Island Developing States |
Dr. Tim Meijers
Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Dr. Jelena Belic |
Rush Massey Clara Mendes Pereira |
|
Dr. Noelle Richardson
Prof. Cátia Antunes |
Philipp Huber Bob Mutsaerts |
|
|
Dr. Pablo Isla Monsalve
Dr. Soledad Valdivia Rivera |
Paulina Bastián Alvarado Jurriaan Hoenderdos |
|
|
Grieks-zijn in Rome. Grafepigrammen, culturele identiteit en migratie in de keizertijd |
Prof. dr. Casper de Jonge
Dr. Rens Tacoma |
Janis Oomen Thirza Vis |
|
Orders of Magnitude: Rethinking Size, Scale, and Mass in European Science and Politics, 1850-1950 |
Dr. Anne Heyer
Dr. Johannes Müller |
Paulien Koster Berend Buiten |
|
How replicable are bilingual interactive processing effects? |
Dr. Jurriaan Witteman
Dr. Leticia Pablos-Robles |
Ekaterina Karaseva
Chih Chieh Wang *Merel Drop |
2022
| Project | Supervisors | Trainees |
|
From wonderland to site of contention Ancient: Archives in the archival turn |
Dr. Rens Tacoma
Prof. dr. Caroline Waerzeggers |
Joëlle Kraaijeveld
Eden Dijkstra |
| Narrative and Fiction in the Politics of Social-Media |
Dr. Sara Polak
Dr. Frank Chouraqui |
Christa Laurens
Aida Gholami |
|
Dr. Eduardo Alves Vieira
Dr. María Gabriela Palacio |
Thomas Grant
Texel in ‘t Veen |
|
| Arabic-Latin Dialogue at the Origins of Orientalism |
Dr. Peter Webb
Dr. Christoph Pieper |
Melissa Allieri
Benjamin Plomp |
| The role of questions in disinformation |
Dr. Matthijs Westera
Prof. dr. Jenny Doetjes |
Marta Cestari
Annemarije Makkinga
Elise Oosterom* |
|
Prof. dr. Ariadne Schmidt
Dr. Alicia Schrikker |
Emma Sow
Danielle van Goethem |
|
|
Dr. Carmen van den Bergh
Dr. Dorine Schellens |
Chiara Ravinetto
Lyna Meyrer |
|
|
Arthurian Revival across the Ages: Practices in Comparative Medievalism |
Dr. Daný van Dam
Fernanda Korovsky Moura MA |
Eli Elshani
Alicia Rojas Costa |
| Global Histories of WWII |
Dr. Ethan Mark
Prof. dr. Ivo Smits |
Rhe-Anne Tan
Khadija Rharissi |
|
Dr. Diederik Smit
Dr. Maartje Janse
Prof. dr. Wim Voermans |
Nicole Hoebert
Sjors Stuurman |
|
|
Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland: From the Archive to the Internet |
Dr. Jelena Prokic
Dr. Mo Gordon |
Hester Groot
Alma Strakova |
*extra trainee appointed by supervisor’s own funding
2021
| Project | Supervisors | Trainees |
|
We have never been secular. Towards a history of religious coping strategies during pandemics |
Dr. Paul van Trigt |
Lorenza Cirillo Thijs Scherjon |
|
Dr. Diana Natermann |
Jan Becker Leonie Rupp |
|
| Good men? Civic virtues in Roman memory culture |
Dr. Miko Flohr |
Janis Oomen Marianne Bakker |
|
Prof. dr. Maarten Mous |
Junma Zhou Anne Makimei |
|
|
PRO-SPECT – The Spectacle of Prostitution and the making of a modern city, Amsterdam, ca. 1880-1950 |
Dr. Marion Pluskota |
Emma Verweij Remko Prins |
|
Prof. dr. Ariadne Schmidt |
Marjolein Oosting Felix Kram |
|
|
Dr. Susana Valdez |
Bregje van Gastel Bo Sterken |
|
|
When Philosophers meet Linguists: the Conceptual Engineering Project |
Dr. Lauren Fonteyn |
Nina Haket Luc Lichtsteiner |
|
Romeins nepnieuws? De Handelingen van Pontius Pilatus als documentaire fictie |
Dr. Rens Tacoma |
Anne Vorwald Indira Huliselan |
|
Leiden Wall Poems: a Mixed Methods Study of their History, Reception and Impact |
Dr. Jan Sleutels |
Zuzanna Duijnmayer Merle van Lier |
| How to Publish a Document in Cursive Script |
Dr. Koen Donker van Heel |
Cheyenne Cozijnsen |
2020
|
Projects |
Supervisors |
Trainees |
|
‘Pour aprendre romain’ Learning French Outside of France, 1250-1600 |
Dr. Krista Murchison Dr. Alisa van de Haar |
Tanya Hart Myrthe Galle |
|
Prof. Joanita Vroom Dr. Peter Webb |
Janaan Farhat Angela Isoldi |
|
|
Texts and Tellings: A Combined literary and linguistic analysis of Iraqw tales, Tanzania |
Dr. Annachiara Raia Prof. dr. Maarten Mous |
Idil Samatar Fayo Said |
|
Prof. dr. Monika Baar Dr. Hope Morgan |
Fenna IJtsma Anique Schüller |
|
|
Prof. dr. Isabelle Duyvesteyn Dr. Marina Calculli |
Alies Jansen Leon Pauw |
|
|
Environmental Policy Towards the Brazilian Amazon, Past and Present |
Prof. Edmund Amann Dr. Jeroen Touwen |
Bianca Rizzo Thomas Fassotte |
|
Tracking the reception of new knowledge in Low Countries’ chronicles, 1500-1850 |
Prof. Judith Pollmann Dr. Gijsbert Rutten |
Sterre Schols Johan Visser |
|
Dr. Anna-Isabelle Richard Dr. Vera Scepanovic |
Jamie Slater Manon van den Brekel |
|
|
Confusion of tongues – A new digital tool for studying Babylon’s multi-ethnic society |
Prof. dr. Caroline Waerzeggers Dr. Alwin Kloekhorst Dr. Margaretha Folmer Dr. Melanie Gross |
Alba de Ridder Laura Dees |
|
Bilingual dictionaries and their impact on the Persian language |
Dr. Siavash Rafiee Rad Prof. Sasha Lubotsky |
Yushan Huang Timur Khan |
|
Dr. Roosmaryn Pilgram Dr. Geert Warnar |
Suze Geuke Guus van der Peet |
2019
|
Project |
Docenten |
Studenten |
|
Kim Beerden Markus Altena Davidsen |
Hilke Hoogenboom Marijn Bethlehem |
|
|
Effatha gebaren – reconstructing the emergence of an endangered dialect of Nederlandse Gebarentaal |
Victoria Nyst Monika Baar |
Joni Oyserman Ingeborg Groen |
|
Leiden’s Pubscape, 1816–1894. Towards a better understanding of drink and labour |
Ariadne Schmidt Roos van Oosten |
Henrike Vellinga Astrid Theerens |
|
Istanbul Greek - documenting a language variety of early cosmopolitanism in danger of extinction |
Marina Terkourafi Deniz Tat |
Zoi Gialitaki Evi Blazaki |
|
Muslim Georgia - Islam’s Northern Frontier through Arabic Eyes |
Joanita Vroom Peter Webb |
Rebecca Ruf Sabrina Qarambach |
|
Heritage languages compared - Papiamento, Spanish and Turkish in The Netherlands |
Janet Grijzenhout M. Carmen Parafita Couto/Deniz Tat |
Ivo Boers Serenay Kaykaç |
|
An Anthology and History of Dutch Political Eloquence
|
Henk te Velde Jaap de Jong |
Solange Ploeg Evi Dalmaijer |
|
Thijs Porck Peter Alexander Kerkhof |
Anouk Mudde Pascale Eskes |
|
|
Maarten Mous Lea Zuyderhoudt |
Tim Smits Jesper Tittse |
|
|
Reception of Cicero in Dutch medieval and early modern literature |
Christoph Pieper Geerten Warnar |
Thom van Leuveren Esther van de Panne |
2018
|
Projects and supervisors |
Trainees |
|
(Marion Pluskota, Roos van Oosten) |
Suzanne Tegelaar |
|
Digital Innovation in Medieval Arabic History (Petra Sijpesteijn/Edmund Hayes, Paul Vierthaler) |
Daan Sanderse Munirah Eskander |
|
(Anita van Dissel, Crystal Ennis) |
Rozemarijn Vlijm |
|
Investigating the Interface of Cognition and Emotion (Marina Terkourafi, Wataru Uegaki) |
Jens Branum |
|
(Maarten Mous, Lea Zuyderhoudt) |
Amy Catling Sandra Bleeker |
|
(Maartje Janse, Joris Oddens) |
Edurne De Wilde Elsa Miedema |
|
(Bart van der Steen, Peter Burger) |
Elisa Hendriks |
|
Medieval Arabic Literature from the Leiden Library (Arnoud Vrolijk, Peter Webb) |
Rebecca Ruf Ralph Vlaeminck |
|
(Olga van Marion, Marion Boers) |
Dirk Hulst |
|
The Unfinished Project of Reclaiming the City (Ksenia Robbe, Daniela Vicherat-Mattar) |
Patricia Nistor James King |
2016-2017
Research projects
- (Re)positioning Modern Concert Music in Contemporary Society
- Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
- Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures
- ‘Being a slave’ Indian ocean slavery in local context
- Pieter Jakob Cosijn’s Correspondence and Scholarly Collaboration at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- The influence of music training in speech processing
- Mapping the Ocean: Georeferencing Maritime History
- Who are the Squatters? Mapping and documenting squatting in Leiden as a cross-over project between Public History and Academic Research
- Disclosing Arabic Papyri from the Leiden University Library
Research trainees
Eighteen trainees were selected to participate in the programme. Each project had two trainees working together on the project.
|
Project |
Trainees |
|
Being a Slave |
Harkirat Singh Doreen van den Boogaart |
|
Disclosing Arabic |
Yasmin Ismail Vincent Sterel |
|
Diversifying the Collections |
Elise Hiddinga Daniël Korving |
|
Mapping the Ocean |
Markus Bardenheuer Sinha Neilabh |
|
Pieter Jakob Cosijn’s |
Amos van Baalen Jodie Mann |
|
Religious Narratives |
Marlies de Groot Ban van Rijn |
|
Repositioning Modern Concert |
Jan Willem Nieuwenhuis Friederike Pank |
|
The Influence of Music Training |
Anika van der Klis Rianne van Lieburg |
|
Who are the Squatters |
Charlotte van Rooden Merel Snoep |