928 search results for “american history” in the Staff website
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Workshop History and International Studies - The Global Futures of the EU
Conference, Workshop
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Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association
Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He won for his paper “Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines,”…
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Join the Columbia Summer Program on American Law in July 2023
Education
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Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Berry DongelmansFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculteit Archeologie
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Zhengshan JiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten HeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Chie AritaFaculty of Humanities
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lukas MilevskiFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant
All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image of native populations in the European mind. An ERC Starting Grant allows Dr Martin Berger to look at the bigger picture, contextualizing individual collections…
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacky NieuwboerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos FrancozoFaculteit Archeologie
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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Historian Ronald Kroeze: 'We must view political integrity from a historical perspective'
The democratic rule of law is under pressure due to a series of scandals and integrity issues, as seen in the recent parliamentary inquiries. Professor Ronald Kroeze explains: 'Public office holders are expected to show complete dedication, but that norm is quite absolute, and what we mean by it is…
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…