Appointments and acknowledgements

• Petra Sijpesteijn (LIAS) chosen as corresponding member of the Austrian Academy and member of the British Academy

Awards, scholarships and grants

• Collaborative research project '#DemocracyinAction' receives funding from the Horizon Europe Work Programme on Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
• Jonathan Silk (LIAS) receives Guggenheim Fellowship for research on how buddhists look at potential decline of their traditions
• Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL) receives Una Europa Africa Partnership for the ELSEA project
• Rebekka Grossmann (Institute for History) receives Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on forced migration after WWII

European Research Council (ERC)

• Edmund Hayes (LIAS) receives ERC grant for research on the development of the early Shia community
• Sarah Cramsey (LIAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on influences on childcare in the 20th century
• Carwyn Morris (LIAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on role of Chinese digital technology and social media on European urban life
• Sara Polak (LUCAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on the role of "play" in American politics
• Joanne Stolk (LUCAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on corrections in Old Greek texts

Also...

• Salvador Santino Regilme (Institute for History) wins Cecil B. Currey Book Award for book ‘Aid Imperium’ 
• Sarah Cramsey (Institute for History) wins Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies for book 'Uprooting the Diaspora' 
• Mehmet Kentel (Institute for History) wins OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize for article 'Ruin and Knowledge in Pera' 
• Sanderien de Jong (Communication and Marketing) and Maud Alberts (Alumni Office) win Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) award for the 'Leiden did not forget you' days.

Royal honours

• Ineke Sluiter (LUCAS) receives Medal of Honour Arts and Science
• Peter Bisschop (LIAS) receives Royal Medal of Honour of behalf of the Society of Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK) [Dutch]

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Fenneke Sysling (Instituut voor Geschiedenis) appointed as new member of the Young Academy
• Herman Paul (Instituut voor Geschiedenis) appointed as new member of the KNAW
• Liselore Tissen (LUCAS) appointed as new ambassador of Leiden City of Science

Awards, grants and scholarships

• Project 'Past ❤ Play' receives Ammodo Science Award 

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

• Paul van Trigt (Instituut voor Geschiedenis) receives NWA grant for research on loneliness in individuals with a mild intellectual disability
• Simeen Tabassi Mofrad (LUCL) receives Rubicon grant for research on aging processes in the brain
• Annachiara Raia (LUCAS) receives NWO Impact Explorer grant for research on Islamic pocket books
• Victoria Nyst (LUCL) receives WECOM grant for research on the history of the Dutch deaf community

Open Competition

• Johannes Müller (LUCAS) receives NWO Open Competition grant for research on the history of ecosystems
• Rik van Gijn (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition grant for research on language spread in South America
• Marika Keblusek (LUCAS) receives NWO Open Competition grant for research on friendship albums

Comenius Grant

• Eun-Ju Kim (LIAS, ATC) receives Comenius Teaching Fellowship for research on language support for Japanese and Korean students with reading difficulties
• Karin de Wild en Peter Verhaar (LUCAS) receives Comenius Teaching Fellowship for research on digital heritage education
• Kim Beerden (Institute for History) receives Comenius Teaching Fellowship for research on diversifying historical education

Veni Grant

• Rosanne Baars (Institute for History) receives Veni grant for research on the role of women in the Osman Empire
• Marie Louise Krogh (Institute for Philosophy) receives Veni grant for research on the history of political philosophy
• Timo McGregor (Institute for History) receives Veni grant for research on juridical and political thinking in premodern European colonies
• Dorine Schellens (LUCAS) receives Veni grant for research on the future perspective in Central and Eastern Europe after 1980

Vidi Grant

• Lettie Dorst (LUCL) receives Vidi grant for research on metaphors in machine translations
• Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) receives Vidi grant for research on the informants and assisant behind kolonial scientists

Vici Grant

• Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL) receives Vici grant for research on how "extra" conversation information is stored within the brain
• Petra Sijpesteijn (LIAS) receives Vici grant for research on cultural transformation in the Middle East
• Victoria Nyst (LUCL) receives Vici grant for research on the history of sign languages for deaf people

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Alisa van de Haar (LUCAS) wins KNAW Early Career Award
• Rafal Matuszewski (Institute for History) receives KNAW grant for research on sexual maturity

Also...

• Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie (Institute for History, KITLV) and Valika Smeulders (Rijksmuseum) receive Die Haghe Prijs for book ‘The colonial and slavery past of Hofstad The Hague’
• Maurits Berger (LIAS) nominated for best contribution teaching programme on world history by the Vereniging Geschiedenisleraren Nederland [Dutch]
• Wim van den Doel (Institute for History) wins Boerhaave Biography Award 2024
• Platform 'Voices of Africa' wins popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)
• Nivja de Jong (LUCL) included in the list of most influential scientists by Elsevier Data Repository

University awards and acknowledgements

• Pieter Slaman (Institute for History) receives LUS Education Prize 2024
• Wouter Kalf (Institute for Philosophy) receives - together with Niels van Doesum (Faculty of Social Sciences, Psychology section) - Seed Grant from the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme for research on moral motivation for a sustainable life
• Project 'Making up Migrants' receives Kiem-grant financing 

Faculty awards and acknowledgements

• Christopher Green (LIAS) wins Faculty Education Prize 2024

Awards

• Stephanie Noach (LUCAS) wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertatieprijs 2024
• Bas van Rijn (LUCSoR) wins Fritz-Stolz Preis for dissertation on afterlife research

Scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Camil Staps (LUCL) receives Rubicon grant for research on usage of the word "that"
• Nolke Tasma (LIAS) receives NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions

Awarded bachelor research

• Max Farasat (BA Religious Studies) wins Best Thesis in Jewish Studies Award for thesis on relation between contemporary Dutch jews and prewar synagogues
• Louise van der Vlught (BA Greek and Latin language and culture) wins Best Thesis in Jewish Studies Award for thesis on translation of Hebrew bible to Ancient Greek

Awarded master research

• Samuel Issy Rubinstein (MA History) wins Fruin Prize 2024 for thesis on history of national-socialism [Dutch]

Awards, scholarships and grants

European Research Council (ERC)

• Anna Tummers (LUCAS) receives ERC Consolidator Grant for research on art forgeries using digitale techniques
• Michaël Peyrot (LUCL) receives ERC Consolidator Grant for research on "The Silk Road language web"
• Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues (LUCAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on contemporary urban diversity in art
• Thijs Porck (LUCAS) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on the study of Old English by Europeans
• Carolien Stolte (LUIH) receives ERC Starting Grant for research on peace activism

Also...

• Virtual International Cooperation Project Grant for research on language use in doctor-patient conversations
• Koreastudies programme receives Prime Minister's Award from Korea
• Erasmus+ scholarship for research on a didactic toolkit for Latin in secondary education

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Dario Fazzi (LUIH) appointed as professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS)

Awards, grants and scholarships

• Tazuko van Berkel (LUCAS) receives Ammodo Science Award

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Open Competition

• Jurriaan Witteman (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for replication study on the brain's "threat detector" 
• Matthijs Westera (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on online curiosity
• Johanneke Caspers (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on the role of intonation in turn-taking
• Rogier Creemers (LIAS) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on Chinese policy documents using digital techniques
• Jan van Dijkhuizen (LUCAS) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on the importance of scent for reading
• Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan (LUIH) receive NWO Open Competition Grant for research on Roman fake news
• Martine Bruil (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on Inca language
• Mo Gordon (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on Scottish language use during the 19th century
• Andrea Giolai (LIAS) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on the influence of climate change on immaterial cultural heritage
• Krista Murchison (LUCAS) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on medieval guide dogs
• Sara Petrollino (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on influence of language on world view
• Eduardo Alves Viera (LUCL) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on the impact of religion on the LGBTQIA+ community
• Thijs Porck (LUCAS) receives NWO Open Competition Grant for research on medieval scriptures using an endoscope

Comenius Grant

• Michaël van der Meer and Markus Davidsen (LIAS) receive Comenius Grant for research on an update for the school course Religion and Philosophy

Veni Grant

• Gerlov van Engelenhoven (LUCAS) receives NWO Veni Grant for research on the role of silence in protest movements
• Rosanne Baars (LUIH) receives NWO Veni Grant for research on the role of women in premodern Eurasian diplomacy
• Patrick Outhwaite (LUCAS) receives NWO Veni Grant for research on patient scepticism in late-medieval England

Museum Grant

• Ad Maas (LUCAS) receives NWO Museum Grant for research on the depiction of Nobel laureats in museums
• Yvonne Bleyerveld (LUCAS) receives NWO Museum Grant for research on fleeing tapestry makers

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Alisa van der Haar (LUCL) wins KNAW Early Career Award

Also...

• Liselore Tissen (LUCAS) receives honorarium from PURE3D for research on database for 3D-models

University awards and acknowledgements

• Lucien van Beek (LUCL) receives LUF Praesidium Libertatis Subsidy for research on the thinking of people in ancient or prehistoric times
• Senior Qualification Education for Bruno Verbeek (LUIP), Markus Davidsen (LIAS) and Hossam Ahmed (LIAS)
• Kirsty Rolfe (LUCAS) nominated for Leiden Teaching Prize 2023

Faculty awards and acknowledgements

• Dario Fazzi (LUIH) receives ECOLe Education Grant for virtual exchange programme
• Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten (LUCAS) win LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
• Olja Karmanova (LUCL) wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2023

Scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Timur Khan (LUIH), Saskia Dunn (LUCL) and Vincent Brussee (LIAS) receive NWO Grant 'PhDs in the Humanities'

Awarded bachelor research

• Anton Bosgieter (BA French Language and Culture) receives Scriptieprijs Frans for thesis on tv show The Great Seducer

Awarded master research

• Johan Visser wins Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt-scriptieprijs for thesis on Zutphen in 1572
• Edmund Flett (MA International Relations) wint J.C. Baakprijs for thesis on the Israeli-Palestine conflict
• Lauren Antonides (ResMA History: Politics, Culture and National Identities) wins Roggeveenscriptieprijs for thesis on emergence of tourism in Zeelandic Flanders
• Florian Herrendorf (MA History) wins Fruinprijs for thesis on the role of the Angolian rule in the dissolution of the Dutch West India Company (WIC)

Also...

• Matthieu Agustoni (MA Philosophy) publishes thesis on daoism in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Petra Sijpesteijn (LIAS) elected as foreign corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
• Alumnus Frank Blokkand (ACPA) receives the Laureaat Honoris Causa.

Awards, grants and scholarships

European Research Council (ERC)

• Peter Bisschop (LIAS) receives scholarship from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on Indian texts.
• Marijn van Putten (LIAS) receives ERC-grant for project on mapping ancient recitations of the Quran.
• Anna Dlabacova (LUCAS) receives ERC-grant for research on the Dutch book of hours and prayers  .
• Fenneke Sysling (LUIH) receives scholarship from the European Research Council (ERC) for a comparative study on medical experiments in colonial South-East Asia during 1890-1962.

• Berthe Jansen (LIAS) receives scholarship from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project on the collection of Johan van Manen.

Also...

• Alex Reuneker (LUCL) wins the Frans van Eemeren award.
• Four projects receive the Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS) grant.
• Peter Burger (LUCL) and Alexander Pleijter (LUCL) win the European Citizens Award for factcheck-initiative Nieuwscheckers.

Royal honours

• Willem Otterspeer (LUIH) appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Maghiel van Crevel (LIAS) elected as KNAW member.
• Marlou Schrover (LUIH) appointed as professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Awards, grants and subsidies

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Angus Mol (LUCAS) receives NWO-grant for research 'Streaming the Past'.
• Andrew Gawthorpe (LUIH) receives NWO-grant for project on American policy and liberalism.
• Jingjing Li (LUIP) receives NWO-grant for research on the ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy.
• Steven Lauritano (LUCAS) receives Comenius Teaching Fellow-grant to improve hybrid education on objects.
• Paz Gonzalez (LUCL) receives Comenius Senior Fellow-grant for project student journal. 
• Kate Bellamy (LUCL) receives NWO-grant for research on national and international language variation.
• Alisa van de Haar (LUCAS) receives NWO-grant for project 'Languages as lifelines'.
• Svetlana Kharchenkova (LIAS) receives NWO-grant for research on foreign books in China.
• Annachiara Raia (LUCAS) receives NWO-grant for project 'Portable Islam'.
• Joris van den Tol (LUIH) receives NWO-grant for research on the role of the industry in the economy of the 17th and 18th century.
• Marlou Schrover (LUIH) receives NWA-grant for project diversity polices and practices in Dutch cities in past, present and future.

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Karwan Fatah-Black (LUIH) and Lauren Lauret (LUIH) receive KNAW-grant for research on colonial forms of citizenship.

Also...

• Anne Sytske Keijser (LIAS) wins the Filter Translation Award 2022.
• Roosje Klap (ACPA) wins a Golden Calf Award 2022.
• Michael Newton (LUCAS) receives a NIAS-grant for research on 19th century bohémiens and their love for anarchic murderers.
• Lauren Lauret (LUIH) receives the D.J. Veegens Award 2022.
• Robert Stein (LUIH) receives a NIAS-grant for research 'Where do receipts come from?'
• Liselore Tissen (LUCAS) receives a NICAS-grant for research on restauration of 'The Crucifixion of the Master of the Lamentation of Christ at Lindau'.
• Nicole van Os (LIAS) wins the Academy Kiss 2022 for commitment to giving language teachers a permanent position
• Bart van der Boom (LUIH) and Patrick Dassen (LUIH) nominated for the Libris History Award
• Rens Takoma (LUIH) wins the Research Prize 2021 for Historical Sciences.
• Anita van Dissel (LUIH) wins the J.C.M. Warnsinck Award. 

Universitaire prijzen en erkenningen

• Lucien van Beek (LUCL) receives LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant.
• Astrid van Weyenberg (LUCAS) admitted as Teaching Fellow.

Faculty awards and acknowledgements

• Astrid Van Weyenberg wins the Faculty Education Award 2022. Other nominees were Akinyinka Akinyoade (ASCL), Maarten Kossmann (LUCL) and Ying-ting Wang (LIAS). 
• Angus Mol (LUCAS) wins LUCAS Public Award 2022.

Awards

• Alex West (LIAS) wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 2022.

Scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Sara Bolghiran (LIAS) receives Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for project 'The other Muslim: a study of Muslim subjectivity in the Netherlands'.
• Renske Janssen (LUCAS) receives Rubicon scholarship for research on the perception of Roman law by society at the time.

Awarded master's research

• Jessica den Oudsten (LUIH) wins the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt History Award for thesis on 'The descendants of Norwegian and Danish Immigrants'.
• Nitzan Shalev (Book and Digital Media Studies) wins the Victorine van Schaick Thesis Prize.
• Charlotte van der Voort (LUCL) wins Leiden University Thesis Prize for thesis on argumentation theory.

Other awards

• Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi en Chiraz Hassoumi nominated for ECHO Award.

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Thijs Porck (LUCAS) admitted as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Awards, grants and scholarships

European Research Council (ERC)

• Hilde De Weerdt (LIAS) receives European Research Council (ERC) scholarship for research on Chinese infrastructure.
• Asghar Seyed Gohrab (LIAS) receives European Research Council (ERC) scholarsip for research on Islamic non-conformism.

Also

• Nira Wickramasinghe (LIAS) wints John F. Richards Prize
• Christopher Williams (ACPA) receives Austrian Science Fund (FWF) scholarship for project '(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics'.

Royal honours

• Henk Versnel (LUIH) appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
• Geert Jan Mantel (LIAS) appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
• Korrie Korevaart (LUCAS) appointed Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau..

Appointments and acknowlegdements

• Tazuko van Berkel (LUCAS) is the new member of the Young Academy.

Awards, grants and scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Monika Baár en Paul van Trigt (LUIH) receive NWO grant for research on 'Het Dorp'.
• Hilde De Weerdt (LIAS) receives NWO grant for research on Chinese infrastructure.
• Sybille Lammes (LUCAS)receives NWO grant for project on politics and play.
• Eric Jorink (LIAS) receives NWO grants for project 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society'.
• Lauren Lauret (LUIH) receives Rubicon scholarship (NWO).
• Hossam Ahmed (LIAS) receives Senior Comenius Fellowship for Digital Humanities track.

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Lukas Verburgt (LUIP) wins KNAW Early Career Award.
• Sarah Cramsey (LIAS) receives KNAW Early Career Partnership.
• Markus Davidsen (LIAS) and colleagues receive scholarship from the KNAW Pilot Fund for science communication for projects  'Education on religion in secondary education'. 
• Peter Burger (LUCL) and the Nieuwscheckers team receive scholarship from theKNAW Pilot Fund for science communication.

Also...

• Nadine Akkerman (LUCAS) wins Dr. Hendrik Muller Award 2021.
• Maarten Bogaards and Alex Reuneker (LUCL) win Academic Year Award Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (MdNL).
• Evert Jan van Leeuwen (LUCAS) nominated for Klokhuis Science Award.
• Evelyn Bosma (LUCL) wins Keetje Hodshon Award for research on multilingualism of Frisian children.
• Nadia Bouras (LUIH) nominated for Brusse Award 2021 for her book 'Een klas apart'.
• Angus Mol (LUCDH) and colleagues receive NWA grant for project 'Streaming the past'.
• Marcel Cobussen (ACPA) receives Best Speaker Award at the Conference on Sound, Sound Studies, and Soundscaping 2021.
• Mike Schmidli (LUIH) receives NIAS fellowship for research on American human rights agenda during the 80's.

University awards and acknowledgements

• Christoph Pieper (LUCAS) and Tijmen Pronk (LUCL) receive Senior Education Qualification.
• Multiple students and lecturers recieve scholarships from the Leiden Media Fund.

Faculty awards and acknowledgements

• Peter Burger (LUCL) wins the Faculty Impact Prize 2020 for research on fake news. Other nominees were Nadine Akkerman (LUCAS), Elizabeth den Hartog (LUCAS) and the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS).
• Noa Schonmann (LIAS) wins The Faculty Education Prize 2021. Other nominees were Anna Tummers (LUCAS), Kirsty Rolfe (LUCAS) and Dorie Nielen (LUCL). 
• Five projects recieve funding from the Faculty Impact Fund for intiatives on societal impact.
• Nadine Akkerman (LUCAS) wins LUCAS Audience Award 2021.

Awards

• Lieke Smits and Coen van 't Veer win the LUCAS Dissertation Award 2020.
• Mattias Brand wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 2021 and Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award.
• Renske Janssen wint LUCAS Dissertation Award 2021.

Scholarships

• Amos van Baalen receives NWO scholarshipt for project ‘Old English Renewed: Tracing Transitional English in the Twelfth Century’.
• Frederique Visser receives NWO scholarship for project 'Rhythms and Rupture: Everyday Life in Three Towns in Habsburg Central Europe, 1890-1930'.
• Stéphanie Noach receives Fulbright Grant for project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contemporary Latin American Art'.

Awarded master's research

• Charlotte Klein (MA Journalism and New Media) wins Villamedia Graduation Award 2020 for thesis on the diversity policies of Dutch media.
• Eline van Slijpe (MA Philosophy) wins J.C. Baak Award for thesis on intergenerational justice. 
• Nynke Anna van der Mark (MA History) wins Fruin Award 2021 voor theis on the role of the Lawa railroad on daily live in Suriname.
• Anne-Mieke Thieme (MA Linguistics) wins EFNIL Thesis Award for thesis on multilingualism in The Hague.
• Geke Burger (MA Colonial and Global History) wins J.R. Bruijn Thesis award for thesis on the 'blue beads' of Sint Eustatius.
• Tessa de Boer (MA History) wins Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt Thesis Award for thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city in the 17th and 18th century.
• Suzanne Bloks (MA Philosophy) wints Leiden University Thesis Award for thesis on the best elective system for a democracy.
• Frederique Visser (MA History) wins Hugo Weiland Thesis Award 2020 for thesis on the party culture in Linz between 1908 and 1928.
• Andrea Cortellari (MA Middle Eastern Studies) wins thesis award of the GTOT (Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung). 

Other awards

• Ruşen Koç (BA International Studies and BA History) nominated for an  ECHO Award Academic Education.
• Dalila Cataldi (BA International Studies) wins Special Recognition Award of the Seoul International Medition Festival Art Exhibition.

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Matthew Broad (LUIH) admitted as Fellow of the Royal History Society.
• Leo Lucassen (LUIH) new director of the International Institute for Social History.
• Judith Pollmann (LUIH) appointed as member of the Academia Europaea.
• Ineke Sluiter (LUCAS) receives honorary degree from the University of Bristol,

Royal honours

• Ingrid Tieken (LUCL) appointed as Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands.

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Ineke Sluiter (LUCAS) from 1 June onward president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
• Kitty Zijlmans (LUCAS) appointed in the Commission Collection Netherlands.

Awards, grants and scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Comenius grants

• Lettie Dorst (LUCL) receives a Comenius Senior Fellow scholarship for project automatic translation and usage of it in secondary education.
• Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy (LUIH) receives Comenius Teaching Fellow to work, together with students, on an online archive of digital sources.

Science Diplomacy Fund

• Egbert Fortuin (LUCL) for research on Russian grammar
• Jos Schaeken (LUCL) for research on fake news between the Netherlands and Russia
• Niels Schiller (LUCL) for research on language and educational policies

Vici

• Cátia Antunes (LUIH) - Exploiting the Empires of Others?

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Marika Keblusek (LUCAS receives NIAS-KNAW Fellowship for research on ‘alba amicorum’.
• Henk te Velde (LUIH) receives Thorbecke Fund Scholarship for research on procedural reasonableness and the representational democracy.

New members Academy

• Henk te Velde (LUIH)

Also...

• Evelyn Bosma (LUCL) and Naomi Nota (ResMA Linguistics) win Klokhuis Science Award for research on bilingualism in Frisian children.
• Renée van Riessen entered the shortlist for the Hypatia Award for her book 'Van zichzelf bevrijd'.

Education awards

• Lotte Fikkers (LUCAS) wins the Faculty Education Award 2020. Other nominees were Laura Bertens (LUCAS), Sai Englert (LIAS) and Aeree Nam (LIAS).

University awards and acknowledgements

LUF grants

• Peter Burger (LUCL), Ionica Smeets and Sanne Willems (both FWN) receive the LUF Lustrum Subsidy for research on combatting misleading graphs.
• Anne Heyer (LUIH), Honorata Mazepus (FGGA) and Wouter Veenendaal (FSW and FGW) receive the LUF Snouck Hurgronje Scholarship for research on the role of scale in how institutions such as the media, parliament and the law operate

Faculty awards and acknowledgements

• Ahab Bdaiwi (LUIP) wins Faculty Impact Award 2020.

Grants and scholarships

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

• Maarten Boogaards (LUCL), Juul Eijk (LIAS) and Patricia Kret (LUIH) receive scholarship PhDs in the Humanities.

Awards

• Sam de Schutter wins theBrill/Diplomatica Mattingly Award.

Awarded master's research

• Joëlle Daems (MA Art History) wins the bi-annual thesis award of the Vereniging Vrienden Nieuwe Kunst 1900.
• Alex Elias (ResMA Linguistics) wins the Jan Brouwer Thesis Award of the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen.
• Frederique Visser (MA History) wins Fruin Award 2020.

Also...

• Elena Kostenko and Rosa Zangenberg receive first Double Degrees BA Arts, Media and Society and certificate Royal Academy of Art.

Awards

• Leonard Blussé (LIAS) receives Fukuoka Lifetime Achievement Award

Grants

European Research Council (ERC)

Consolidator Grant

• Nadine Akkerman (LUCAS) - Detective work into old, handwritten documents

Starting Grant

• Alanna O'Malley (LUIH/FGGA) - Rewriting the history of the UN

Humanities in the European Research Area

• Sara Brandellero (LUCAS) leads research project on urban night life and migration, culture and integration in eight European cities.

Acknowledgements

• Louis Andriessen (ACPA) receives honorry doctorate from the University of Amsterdam
• Jeroen Duindam (LUIH) receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first class.
• Dorota Mokrosinska (LUIP) receives Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship of Princeton University 

Erasmus+ grants for internationalizing education and research

Jean Monnet Grant for excellent EU-studies

The four themes: history, economy, law and politics of the master specialisation EU Studies will under the guidance of Maxine David (LUIH) be integrated into one interdisciplinary course. This should culminate into a yearly symposium in which the students present their research and discuss them with academics and policy makers.

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree

In the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) a student will study in a minimum of two countries. The Joint Master European Politics and Society of Leiden University Charles University (Czech Republic), the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) get funding to extend the programme. 

Credit Mobility-programma for co-operation outside of the EU

• Faculty of Humanities with the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Georgia
• Faculty of Humanities with the École de Gouvernance et d’Economie de Rabat in Morocco
• Faculty of Humanities with the Anton de Kom Universiteit in Suriname

Royal honours

• Rob Demarée (LIAS) appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
• Henk Schulte Nordholt (LIAS) appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands

Awards, grants and scholarships

• Nadine Akkerman (LUCAS) receive Ammodo Science Award 
• Dirk Alkemade and Anne Petterson (bothLUIH) both receive first Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde Fellowship
• Remco Breuker (LIAS) appointed by Schienceguide as the most influential thinkers and do-ers in higher education and science 

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Vici

• Yiya Chen (LUCL) - Melody in speech
• Herman Paul (LUIH) - Early-modern vices: why are they still around?

Vidi

• Rick Honings (LUCAS) - Voicing the Colony

Veni

• Mahmood Kooriadathodi (LIAS) - Can Islam be Matriarchal?
• Tim Meijers (LUIP) - What do we owe to future generations?
• Krista Murchison (LUCAS) - Righting and Rewriting History
• Judith Naeff (LIAS) - Arab ideals and disappointments
• Sara Petrollino (LUCL) - Cattle colours in East Africa
• Konrad Rybka (LUCL) - Manioc roots: prehistory of Amazonia seen from the kitchen
• Benjamin Suchard (LUCL) - Nabataean Aramaic: a living language?

Comenius grants for executing an educational projects

• Krista Murchison (LUCAS) will be transcribing and editing Enlish texts together with students

Rubicons

• Joris van den Tol (LUIH) to Harvard University, VS
• Paul Noorlander (LUCL) to University of Cambridge, UK 

Free competition Humanities

• Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen (both LUIH) - Tolerant Netherlands?
• Maarten Mous (LUCL) - East-Africa's early language history

Other NWO grants

• Talent scholarship Humanities for three up-and-coming PhD-candidates:
  • Axel Palmér (LUCL)
  • Aafje de Roest (LUCAS)
  • Camil Staps (LUCL)
• Eliza Steinbock (LUCAS) receives NWO Smart Culture Grant for heritage institutions

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

New members

• Marian Klamer (LUCL/LIAS) appointed member KNAW
• Leo Lucassen (LUIH) appinted member KNAW and Social-Scientific Council

Young Academy

• Karwan Fatah-Black (LUIH)

Early Career Award

• Berthe Jansen (LIAS)
• Carolien Stolte (LUIH)

Appointments and acknowledgements

• Emeritus professor Art History Willemijn Fock (LUCAS) awarded honorary membership Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici
• Jos Gommans (LUIH) guest conservator exhibition 'India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt'
• Ton Koopman (ACPA) appointed chair of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig
• Henk te Velde (LUIH) appointed chair of the Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap

• Andreas Krogull (LUCL) wins Academic Year Award 2019 of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde for best dissertation on (Dutch) linguistics.
• Aart Strootman (ACPA) receives Matthijs Vermeulenprijs 2019 for musical composition
• Uzume Wijnsma (LIAS) one of the '30 talents under 30' of Elsevier

Awarded master's research

• Cecile de Jong (MA Classics) wins 3rd prize of Leiden University Thesis Awards
• Coco van Beveren and Frits Brouwer (both MA Religious Studies) both write master thesis of very high quality
• Patricia Kret (MA History) wins Fruin Award 

En ook...

• Ditmar Bakker and Anne Grisnich (BA Nederlandse taal en cultuur) 1st and 2nd in translation competition 'Het Leven is Droom'

Onderwijsprijzen

• Thijs Porck (LUCAS) wins LUS Education Prize 2019
• Frank Chouraqui (LUIP) wins Education Prize Faculty of Humanities

New members of the Leiden Teachers' Academy

• Victor Gijsbers (LUIP)

Faculty and institute awards

• Twenty teachers receive Senior Qualification Education

Also...

• Hugo Koning (LUCAS) wins first LUCAS Audience Award
• Andrew Shield (LUIH) and Ann Marie Wilson (LUC) receive Leiden Global Interactions SEED grant for study on sexuality