Experts
Meet the experts

Rodrigo Ochigame
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artificial intelligence, cultural anthropology, digital and audiovisual methods, digitalization, economy, media, politics
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Mandy de Wilde
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environmental anthropology, farming, ethnography, political ecology, sciences and technology studies, sustainability
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Northwestern Europe
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John Boy
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digitalisation, media, religion, sociology
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Europe
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Cristina Grasseni
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citizenship, digital and audiovisual methods, economy, food, sustainability
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Europe
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Cristiana Strava
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Anthropology, Urban Studies, Social Change, Urban Ethnography
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Morocco, Northern Africa
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Shivant Jhagroe
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Legal Rights, Nature, Climate Justice, Citizenship, Environmental Policy
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Noa Schonmann
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Arab-Israeli Conflict, Conflict and Peace Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations, Political Legitimacy
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The Middle East
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Looi van Kessel
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American Literature, Queer Studies, Gender, Sexuality, LGBT+ Literature, Drag
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United States
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Maartje Janse
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Cultural History, Dutch History, Modern History, Political Culture, Political Legitimacy, Social Movement History
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The Netherlands
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Rogier Creemers
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Global Affairs, Law, Organisational Structuring, Political Ideology, Policy, Technology
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China
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Anoma van der Veere
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Discourse Analysis, International Relations, Education, Healthcare, Media, Political Science, Public Policy, Technology
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Japan
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Radhika Gupta
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Anthropology of Religion, Borderlands, Politics, Post-Colonial Politics, Religious Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology
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South Asia
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Andrew Littlejohn
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Anthropology, Digital and Audiovisual Methods, Environment, Ethnography, Politics, Sustainability
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Japan
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Tessa Minter
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Anthropology, Ethnography, Food, Gender, Resource Extraction, Sustainability, Water
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Asia-Pacific
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Annemarie Samuels
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Anthropology, Disasters, Ethnography, Gender, Health, Hiv/Aids, Medical Anthropology, Palliative Care
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Indonesia
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Erik de Maaker
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Anthropology, Diversity, Environment, Ethnography, Heritage, Sustainability
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South Asia
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Marja Spierenburg
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Anthropology, Energy and Water Systems, Environment, Ethnography, Sustainability
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Sub-Sahara Africa
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Roxane de Massol de Rebetz
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Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Counterterrorism, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law
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Belgium, France
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Matthew Canfield
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Food Security, Economic/Ecological inequalities
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United States
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Amalia Campos Delgado
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Border Securitisation, Crimmigration, Externalisation Of Borders, Immigration And Border Control
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Mexico
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Aarti Kawlra
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Cultural Heritage
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South-Asia
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Richard Griffiths
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China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), (New) Silk Road
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China
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Paul Rabé
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Urban Studies, Governance, Political Science
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Cambodia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa
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Elena Paskaleva
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Architecture, Critical Heritage Studies, Cultural Heritage, Development And Rights, Cultural History, Islamic Architecture, Islamic Art, Timurid Architecture
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Central Asia, Uzbekistan
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Fokke Gerritsen
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Early Farming Societies of Southwest Asia, Ancient Anatolia, Landscape and Settlement Archaeology, Heritage Studies, Urban Heritage and Sustainability
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Turkey
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Jacques van der Vliet
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Coptic, Early Christianity, Egyptology
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Egypt, Nubia
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Brien Garnand
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Ancient Mediterranean History (Ethnography and Geography), Ancient Colonization, Early Alphabetic Writing, Archaeology of the Central Mediterranean
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Mediterranean
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Mathijs Smith
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Archives, Egyptologie, Museologie, Klassieke Oudheid.
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Egypte
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Georg Cyrus
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Household archaeology, Ancient Architecture, Domestic Architecture
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Southwest Asia
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Marike van Aerde
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Ceramic Analysis, Indian History, Mediterranean Archaeology, Silk Road
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Ancient Egypt, Central Asia, East Africa, India
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Natalia Donner
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Absolute Dating, Archaeological Theory, Ceramics, Chaine Operatoire, Chronology, Epistemology of Archaelogy, Indigenous Archaeology, Material Culture
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Mesoamerica, South America
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Alexander Geurds
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Archaeological Theory, Archaeology Of Central America, Collaborative Archaeology, Globalisation, History Of Archaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Monumental Architecture
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Mesoamerica, southern Central America, Colombia, Nicaragua
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Bleda Düring
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Ancient Eastern Arabia, Archaeology Of Empires, Archaeology of The Near East, Landscape Archaeology, Neolithic Turkey, Prehistoric Cyprus
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Oman, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria
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Roos van Oosten
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Archaeology of Public Health, Historical Archaeology, Historical Gis, Interdisciplinary Research, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Ceramics, Urban Archaeology
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The Low Countries
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Arjan Louwen
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Dutch Archaeology, European Prehistory, Field Archaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology
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Northwest Europe
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Richard Jansen
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Dutch Archaeology, European Prehistory, Iron Age, Provincial Roman Archaeology
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The Netherlands, Northwestern Europe
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Quentin Bourgeois
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Artificial Intelligence, Barrow Alignment, Dutch Archaeology, European Prehistory, Gis Analysis
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The Netherlands
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Marie Soressi
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Human Evolution, Human Origins, Late Neandertals and first Anatomically Modern Humans, Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic in Europe, Stone-Tool, Ad-Hoc Bone-Tool and Pigment
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Europe
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Letty ten Harkel
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Heritage Management, Landscape Archaeology, Material Culture, Medieval Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology, North Sea, Remote Sensing, Roman Archaeology
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North Sea, Mediterranean
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Ann Brysbaert
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Aegean and East Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeological Conservation, Greek Archaeology, Heritage Conservation, Monumental Architecture, Pre-Industrial Technologies, Social Theory in Archaeology
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Bronze Age Greece, The East Mediterranean
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Jan Kolen
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Artificial Intelligence, Landscape History, Global Heritage and Development
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Europe
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Diana Suhardiman
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Climate Governance, Natural Resource Governance
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Laos, Myanmar
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Francio Guadeloupe
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Colonial Racisms, Global Capital, Climate Challenges
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St. Martin, Curaçao, Aruba, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Brazil,
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Esther Captain
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Postcolonial Netherlands, Heritage
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Indonesia, the Caribbean
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Ward Berenschot
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Governance, Access to Justice, Citizenship, Religious Conflict, Election Campaigns
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Indonesia, India
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Maartje van der Woude
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(Counter)terrorism, Criminal law, Crimmigration, Empirical legal research, Immigration and border control, Law and society, Public order and safety, Sociology of law
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Elena Burgos Martinez
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Embodiment and place, Environment, Food cultures, Islam, Ocean and island theory, Solidarity, Waste relations, Water ontologies
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Southeast Asia
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Martin Berger
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Museums, Collections and Society
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Mesoamerica and Surinam
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David Henley
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Area Studies, Economic history, Politics, Religion
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Indonesia, Southeast Asia
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Ethan Mark
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Colonialism, imperialism and heritage, History of Japan, History of modern Japan, Japanese studies, Migration
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Japan, Indonesia
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Florian Schneider
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Chinese economy, media and studies, Digital humanities, Political communication, Traditional Chinese political thought
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China
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Kiri Paramore
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East Asian history, Global history, Intellectual history, Sociology of knowledge, Sociology of religion
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Japan
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Willemijn Waal
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Ancient Near East, Ancient Near Eastern literature, Ancient writing systems, Assyriology, Hittieten Studies
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Assyria, Near East
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Koen de Ceuster
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Korean economy, history, language and politics
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Korea
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Martin Baasten
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History of the Hebrew language, Comparitive Semitics, Dead Sea Scrolls
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Israel, Near East
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Margaretha Folmer
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Aramaic Language and Linguistics, Aramaic Philology, Area Studies, Classical Judaism, Linguistics
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Israel, Palestine, Near East
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Thijs Porck
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Anglo-Saxon Studies, Beowulf, Historical Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old Age, Old English Language, Tolkien
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Early medieval England, Europe
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Hoko Horii
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Child Marriage, Human Rights Law, Indonesian Law and Society, Japanese Law and Society, Law, Governance and Development
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Japan, Indonesia
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
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Human Evolution, Hunter-Gatherers Neolithisation, Later Stone Age, Middle Stone Age, Palaeolithic, Protection of Archaeological Heritage
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Northwest Europe, South Africa
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Maikel Kuijpers
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Prehistoric Europe, Bronze Age, craftmanship and skill, material culture, archaeology
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Europe
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Karwan Fatah-Black
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Dutch colonial history, early modern history, history of slavery, maritime history, migration, globalisation
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Early Modern Atlantic World, The Netherlands, Suriname
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Abdourahmane Idrissa
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States and institutions, political Islam and political secularism, modern and premodern history
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Niger, Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria
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Angus Mol
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Interface of digital media & the past, digital culture, videogames, digital humanities, digital archaeology
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Jingjing Li
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Chinese philosophy, East Asian Buddhist philosophy, feminist philosophy, Neo-confucianism
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East Asia
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Stephen Harris
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Indian philosphy, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural philosophy
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India, China, Greece
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Ahab Bdaiwi
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Arabic philosophy, Islamic studies, medieval studies, Islamic intellectual history, Late Antiquity, Metaphysics, Shi'Islam
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Douglas Berger
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Cross-cultural philosophy, Chinese, Indian and German philosophy
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China, India
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Marijke van der Wal
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History of Dutch language, historical sociolinguistics, historiography
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The Netherlands
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Marina Terkourafi
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Sociolinguistics, modern Greek, cognitive linguistics, experimental linguistics
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Cyprus
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Johan Rooryck
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French and Dutch linguistics
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Sasha Lubotsky
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Indo-European Linguistics, historical linguistics
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Janet Grijzenhout
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English linguistics, language acquisition, language change, Germanic languages
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Sjef Barbiers
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Dutch linguistics
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The Netherlands
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Loes Oudenhuijsen
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sexuality, gender norms, agenxy, political economy, Islam, secularity
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Senegal
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Tycho van der Hoog
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African history, Korean history, African-Korean relations, liberation wars, international relations
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Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
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Henk te Velde
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Dutch history, National identity, Political culture
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The Netherlands
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Marlou Schrover
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Gender, class, ethnicity, social history, migration history
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The Netherlands
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Bernhard Rieger
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European history in global contexts, neoliberalism
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Germany, Great Britain, United States, Mexico
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Edmund Amann
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Regulation, innovation, development and foreign direct investment.
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Brazil
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Lidewyde Berckmoes
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Conflict, children and youth, intergenerational transmission, resilience, violence
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Rwanda, Burundi
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Harry Wels
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Nature conservation, human-animal studies
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South Africa, Southern Africa
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Helbertijn Krudop
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The restoration history of the museum’s Egyptian collection, old restoration materials, and the ethics of restoration over the years.
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Egypt
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Renske Dooijes
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Restoration of ceramics and glass, restoration of (prehistoric) pottery, archaeological field preservation, the history of restoration and restoration techniques
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The Mediterranean region and the Near East
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Petra Hogenboom
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Papyrology, History of the Egyptian Late Period and Graeco-Roman period, History of collecting Egyptian antiquities and early development of museum collections
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Egypt
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Daniel Soliman
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Egyptology, sculpture from the Middle and New Kingdom and its social and administrative aspects, the art market and the trade in pharaonic antiquities
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Egypt
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Jasper de Bruin
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Roman archaeology, rural communities, exchange mechanisms
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Northwest Europe in Roman times
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Annachiara Raia
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African languages literatures, Islamic poetry in Africa, orality and literacy, Swahili literature and practices
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Eastern Africa, Kenya
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Sybille Lammes
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Digital culture, game and play studies, media-studies
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Stijn Bussels
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Early modern art, architectural history, early modern theatre
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The Low Countries, ancient Rome, Europe
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Wim van Anrooij
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Medieval Studies, Dutch Language, Culture & Literature
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The Netherlands, Europe
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Carmen van den Bergh
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Italian literature, (neo)realism in film and literature
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Italy
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Manon van der Heijden
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Urban history, social history, history of citizenship, gender history, women & crime
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The Low countries
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Sebastiaan Berntsen
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History of Near East studies
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Marten Stol
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Assyriology, history of the Old Babylonian period, Babylonian medicine
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Babylon
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Lucy Bennison-Chapman
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Near Eastern Archeology, Administration systems, Early writing, Material culture, Symbolism
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Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Southwest Asia (Levant)
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Carolien Jacobs
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Legal anthropology, law, governance, international development, conflict
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Congo, Mozambique
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Janine Ubink
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African law and governance, customary law, land law and policy, gender, transitional justice, legal empowerment
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Ghana, Namibia, Malawi, Somalia, South Africa
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Dario Fazzi
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US social and foreign policy history, peace history, transatlantic history
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United States
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Nadia Sonneveld
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Family law, Legal rights, Migration
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Morocco, North Africa
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Ariadne Schmidt
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Early modern social and economic history, Gender history, Labour history, Urban history, Women's work, Institutions
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The Netherlands, Leiden
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Martijn Manders
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Cultural heritage, maritime archaeology underwater archaeology
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Sara Polak
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American studies, Cultural analysis, Cultural history, Memory studies, Public history, Disability studies, Psychoanalysis and storytelling.
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United States, England
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Damian Pargas
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Economic and social history, Comparative history, North American slavery and emancipation, Migration in the Atlantic world, American racial and labor relations.
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United States
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Wouter Veenendaal
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Politics and democracy in small states, Political representation, Political competition, Foreign policy, Institutional legitimacy in small jurisdictions
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Dutch Caribbean islands
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David Kloos
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History and Anthropology of Islam in Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia
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Tom Hoogervorst
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Malay linguistics, Lexical borrowing, Maritime archaeology, Conceptual linguistics, Documentation of endangered languages
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Southeast Asia
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Lara Weiss
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Ancient Egypt, Interdisciplinary methods, Museology, Religion studies
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Deir el-Medina, Egypt
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Klaas van Walraven
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French Africa; French empire, decolonization, biography
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Niger, West Africa, Central African Republic
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Chibuike Uche
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Political economy, Business and financial history, Financial institutions regulation and regional integration
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Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone
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Rijk van Dijk
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Pentecostalism, globalization and transnationalism, migration, youth and healing
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Botswana, Ghana, Malawi
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Wouter van Beek
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Kapsiki-Higi people, Dogon, Folk tales, Oral history, Religion, Anthropology of religion, Tourism, Cultural ecology, Witchcraft, Holy places
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Cameroon, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Azeb Amha
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Descriptive and documentary linguistics, Anthropological linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Omotic languages
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Ethiopia
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Crystal Ennis
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Gulf political economy, Labour market reform, Entrepreneurship in the Middle East, Global Governance
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Middle East
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Jue Wang
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Chinese economy, Global governance, International political economy, International relations
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China
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Wayne Modest
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Museum theory, Cultural heritage, Material and visual culture, Caribbean studies, Slavery, trauma and memory in the Atlantic World, Heritage and citizenship
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Maaike Warnaar
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Iran, foreign policy, international relations, politics in the Middle East, poststructuralism and constructivism
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Iran
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Miguel John Versluys
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Classical archaeology, Cultural interaction, Globalisation
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Mediterranean, Egypt, Near East
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Maurits Berger
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Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Islam in Europe, Islamic law, Political Islam
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Middle East
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Joanita Vroom
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Medieval and Post-Medieval archaeology, Byzantine archaeology, Islamic archaeology, Ottoman archaeology, ceramics, dining habits and cuisine
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Eastern Mediterranean
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André Leliveld
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Frugal innovation, economy, informal insurance and social-support systems, labour protection
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East Africa
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Mayke Kaag
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Social anthropology, Islam, African transnational relations
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Senegal, Chad, Cameroon
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Luuk de Ligt
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Social and economic history, demography, Roman republic, legal sources, epigraphy
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Ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Mediterranean
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Kim Beerden
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Religions of antiquity, food and foodways in antiquity, history of ancient mentalities
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Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Mesopotamia
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Egbert Fortuin
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Russian linguistics, Slavic linguistics, philosophy of language/linguistics
Region
Russia
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
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English sociohistorical linguistics
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United Kingdom
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Maarten Kossmann
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Berber linguistics, Contact linguistics, Oral narratives, Language contact between Berber languages and Arabic dialects
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North Africa, Sahara, Sahel zone
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Felix Ameka
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African linguistics, anthropological linguistics, West African languages
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West Africa
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Rint Sybesma
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Linguistics, Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China
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China
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Aone van Engelenhoven
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Southeast Asian linguistics, Austronesian, Historical linguistics, Oral traditions
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Indonesia, East Timor, Moluccas
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Kathryn Wellen
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Early modern Southeast Asian history, Wajorese diaspora, Bugis language, Soppéng dialect, links between statecraft and warfare
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Indonesia, Southeast Asia
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Fridus Steijlen
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Anthropology, Contemporary Indonesian history, oral history, ethnic minorities, Moluccans
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Indonesia, Moluccas
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Jacqueline Vel
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Agrarian law, biofuel politics, socio-legal studies, rural development, agrarian change, local governance
Region
Indonesia, Sumba
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Helen Westgeest
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Contemporary art history, photography, video, interactions in art between East and West
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Germany, France, United States, Japan
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Adriaan Bedner
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Law, governance, development, courts and dispute resolution, Indonesian law, adat law, environmental law, constitutional law
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Southeast Asia, Indonesia
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Annemarieke Willemsen
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Objects of daily use from the Roman era until the 17th century, play, toys, education, family, material culture
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The Netherlands, Europe
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Luc Amkreutz
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Material culture of European Prehistory, middle and early stone age (Mesolithic and Neolithic), hunter-gathers and agricultural societies
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The Netherlands, Northwest Europe
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Lucas Petit
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Archeology, excavation method and theories, grinding stones and other stone objects
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Southwest Asia (Levant), Benin, Burkina Faso
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Ruurd Halbertsma
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Archeology, history, history of archaeological collecting, material culture, museum studies
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Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Etruria, Northern Africa
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Mehdi Amineh
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Energy security
Region
Central Asia
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Philippe Peycam
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Heritage studies, history, colonialism
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Vietnam, Cambodia
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Otto Boele
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Contemporary Russian literature, Russian cinema, Romanticism, Literary reception and reception history
Region
Russia
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Marika Keblusek
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Art history, early modern museum & collection studies, book and library history, art crime
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United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany
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Antje Wessels
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Latin, roman drama, literature of the Silver Age, reception of antiquity (19th/20th Century)
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Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
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Maria Boletsi
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Greek literature, barbarism, postcolonial literature, literary speech acts, migratory aesthetics and cultural identity in the Balkans
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Greece, Europe, Mediterranean
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Sara Brandellero
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Brazilian literature and culture, Interculturality, Migration & Diaspora, Gender, Space, place & landscape, Postcoloniality
Region
Brazil
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Adriana Churampi Ramirez
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Latin-American literature and languages, cultural identity
Region
Andes, Peru, Dominican republic
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
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Anglo-American fantastic fiction
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United States, United Kingdom
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Peter Liebregts
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English language literature, modernism, religion and ethics in literature
Region
United States
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Peter Verstraten
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Dutch cinema, Media studies, Literature
Region
The Netherlands
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Frans-Willem Korsten
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Film & Literature studies, rhetoric, ideology, Urban studies,
Region
Europe
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Herman Siemens
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Continental philosophy, Nietzsche, political philosophy, aesthetics, conflict, law,
Region
Germany
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Frans de Haas
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Ancient and medieval philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, neoplatonism
Region
Ancient Greece
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André Gerrits
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Russian History and Politics, International Relations, International Studies, Global Politics, Russian History.
Region
Russia
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Pieter ter Keurs
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Material culture, Cultural heritage, Museum anthropology
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The Netherlands, Indonesia, Mediterranean
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Kitty Zijlmans
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Art history, contemporary art, world art studies
Region
Europe
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Leo Lucassen
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Social history, (global) migration, integration, urbanisation, police and criminality, gypsies and travelling groups
Region
Europe
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Ineke Sluiter
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Classical languages and culture
Region
Ancient Greece
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Cunera Buijs
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Anthropology, history, material culture, shamanism
Region
Greenland, Scandinavia, Siberia, Caucasus
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Cisca Hoogendijk
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Greek papyrology, History of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Region
Egypt
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Hans Theunissen
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Ottoman and Turkish history & art, Area studies,
Region
Turkey
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Judith Frishman
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Religious studies, Judaism
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Western Europe
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Gabrielle van den Berg
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Persian language and literature
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Persia, Iran, Tajikistan
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Annette Schmidt
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History, archeology, material culture, architecture, tourism
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West Africa
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Robert Ross
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Colonial South Africa, slavery, black consumption patterns, global homogenisation of world material culture
Region
South Africa
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Maarten Mous
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African linguistics
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Tanzania, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Senegal
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Marleen Dekker
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Development economy, human geography, land reform, social networks
Region
Zimbabwe, Togo, Ethiopia
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Mirjam de Bruijn
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's), nomadism, youth and children, social (in)security, poverty, marginality/social and economic exclusion, violence, slavery, and human rights.
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Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Central African Republic, Sahel
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Akinyinka Akinyoade
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Demography, sociology, fertility dynamics and family planning, human trafficking and forced labor
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West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
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Ton Dietz
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Economic geography, political ecology, agricultural dynamics
Region
Kenya, Ghana
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Wonu Veys
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Material culture, history and early contacthistory of Oceania, textiles and clothing, ceremonial objects made by women in West-Polynesia
Region
Oceania
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Ab de Jong
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Comparative religion, religions of Antiquity, Zoroastrianism and interaction with other religions,
Region
Iran
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Carolien Stolte
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History of internationalism, independence movements and decolonization
Region
South Asia, India
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Francine Brinkgreve
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Art and material culture of Indonesia, especially Bali, shared collections with Museum Nasional in Jakarta
Region
Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali
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Marijke Klokke
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Art and material culture, Indonesian archaeology and history (5th BC to 15th AD), intercultural relationships between South and Southeast Asia
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South and Southeast Asia
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Peter Meel
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(Dutch) Caribbean politics and culture, colonisation, decolonisation and regional/global integration, contemporary Surinamese history
Region
Dutch Caribbean, Suriname
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Jan Abbink
Expertise
Anthropology, political change and ethnicity, violence and culture, ethnic groups
Region
Northeast Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia
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Peter Pels
Expertise
Global Africa, Global Politics, Consumption, Diversity, Ethics, Heritage, Religion and Magic, Colonial History, Anthropology
Region
Tanzania, Africa
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Sabine Luning
Expertise
Goldmining, Economy, Religion and Religious Ideas, Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Politics, Migration
Region
Burkina Faso, West Africa
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Bart Barendregt
Expertise
Anthropology of information society, Islam, performing arts, new and mobile media and popular music.
Region
Southeast Asia, Indonesia
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Erik Bähre
Expertise
Economic anthropology, conflict, emotions, methodology, emerging markets, Netherlands, South Africa
Region
South Africa
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Gerard Persoon
Expertise
Environmental anthropology, nature conservation, human-environment interactions, natural resources management
Region
Southeast Asia
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Peter Akkermans
Expertise
Near Eastern Archaeology, Late Neolithic settlement and subsistence in Syria
Region
Near East, Syria
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Wil Roebroeks
Expertise
Palaeolithic archeology, Neanderthals, human evolution, hunting
Region
Europe
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Gerry van Klinken
Expertise
Democratisation, regime change, citizenship, Indonesian history
Region
Southeast Asia, Indonesia
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Henk Schulte Nordholt
Expertise
Contemporary politics in Indonesia, Indonesian and Balinese history, political violence, the anthropology of colonialism
Region
Southeast Asia, Indonesia
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Rosemarijn Hoefte
Expertise
Surinamese history in the 19th and 20th centuries, unfree labor, the Javanese diaspora, and the social-cultural history of small Caribbean communities
Region
Suriname
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Marieke Bloembergen
Expertise
(post-)colonial history, heritage, archeology, colonial policing, cultural knowledge production, Greater India
Region
South-East Asia, Indonesia
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Gert Oostindie
Expertise
Dutch colonial history, decolonization of the Dutch empire, ethnicity and migration in the Caribbean and Latin America, postcolonial migration and Dutch national identity
Region
Caribbean, Indonesia
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Nanne Timmer
Expertise
Literature in postmodern and postcolonial writing, inter-culturality, migrant literature, gender studies, new media and literature
Region
Latin America
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Patricio Silva
Expertise
Contemporary history, political sociology, democratization, the state and social relations
Region
Latin America
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Judith Pollmann
Expertise
The Dutch Revolt, Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe, memory, news and public opinion
Region
The Netherlands, Northern Europe
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Erik-Jan Zurcher
Expertise
Ottoman Empire, Turkish Republic, the Young Turks, Social history, Language
Region
Turkey
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Expertise
African history, technology and society, history of anthropology
Region
Ghana, Southern Africa
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Jos Gommans
Expertise
Colonial history, world history, Indian and Mughal history
Region
South Asia
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Alicia Schrikker
Expertise
Colonial history, VOC, Disasters, Global history, Migration
Region
Indonesia, Sri Lanka
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Cátia Antunes
Expertise
Empire, intercontinental connections, economic history, Colonialism, Migration
Region
Atlantic World
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Johanna Kardux
Expertise
American literature and culture, slavery, gender, trauma and memory studies, migration, 9/11 literature and film
Region
United States
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Pieter Hovens
Expertise
Native American art and material culture, Dutch-Native American contact, history of anthropology, museumantropologie, etnisch toerisme, zigeunerstudies.
Region
North America
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Olaf Kaper
Expertise
Egyptian religion, Iconography, Cultural history and change
Region
Ancient Egypt
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Expertise
Assyriology, History of Mesopotamia, Political transformations, Establishment of the Persian Empire in Babylonia
Region
Mesopotamia, Jerusalem, Babylonia
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Expertise
Islamic and Arabic Studies, social and economic history of Late Antiquity, Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, Arabic papyrology
Region
Near East, Middle East
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Expertise
Contemporary history, Minorities, Nation state, Diaspora, Modern Middle East
Region
Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Middle East
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Léon Buskens
Expertise
Culture, law and Islam in contemporary Middle Eastern societies
Region
Middle East, Southeast Asia
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Marian Klamer
Expertise
Papuan/Austronesian/Malya languages, Language contact and change, Morpho-syntax and lexicon
Region
Southeast Asia, Indonesia, West New Guinea
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Ben Arps
Expertise
Language, Religion, Propaganda, Cultural policy, Anthropology.
Region
Indonesia, Java, Southeast Asia
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Expertise
State and society in modern South Asia, identity politics, everyday life under colonialism
Region
South Asia, Sri Lanka, India
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Jonathan Silk
Expertise
Buddhist studies, Buddhist scriptures, Indian Studies, Tibetan Studies, Chinese Studies, Buddhism in Asia
Region
South Asia, Central Asia
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Peter Bisschop
Expertise
Sanskrit and ancient cultures, Sanskrit literature, classical Hinduism
Region
South Asia, India
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Remco Breuker
Expertise
Korean history, Korean film, Central Asian history, colonial history, North Korea
Region
Korea
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Ivo Smits
Expertise
Arts and cultures, literature and film, bilingualism, Poet-patron networks
Region
Japan
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Expertise
Material culture and consumption, history and anthropology of food, anthropology of colonialism and war, globalisation
Region
East Asia, Japan, Korea
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Frank Pieke
Expertise
Social anthropology, Chinese politics, Migration and overseas communities
Region
China
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Maghiel van Crevel
Expertise
Literature and culture, Chinese language, Poetry
Region
China
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Giles Scott-Smith
Expertise
Public Diplomacy, Transatlantic Relations, Transnational Relations, US Foreign Policy, Cold War History, Diplomatic History,
Region
United States
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