Sasha Lubotsky and Ineke Sluiter member of Academia Europaea
Sasha Lubotsky, professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, and Ineke Sluiter, professor of Classical languages and culture, have been appointed members of the Academia Europaea.
Sasha Lubotsky, professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, and Ineke Sluiter, professor of Classical languages and culture, have been appointed members of the Academia Europaea.
Two scholars in the Humanities
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| Professor Sasha Lubotsky |
We are proud to announce that two of our scholars in the humanities have been appointed member of the Academia Europaea.
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Professor Sasha Lubotsky is professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and associated with the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
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Professor Ineke Sluiter is professor of Classical languages and culture and associated with the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea is a European Academy specialised in all fields of sciences, including the Humanities, and is composed of individual members. Membership is by invitation only. The primary criterion for membership is 'sustained academic excellence in the candidate's field'.
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| Professor Ineke Sluiter |
The members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. The Academy was founded in 1988 and now has some 2300 members that are drawn from across the whole European continent, not only western Europe. Members also include European scholars who are resident in other regions of the world. Amongst the members are thirty-eight Nobel Laureates, several of whom were elected to the Academia before they received the prize.
Other Leiden scholars in the Humanities that are member of the Academia Europaea are:
- professor Piet Emmer (em)
- professor Wim Blockmans (em)
- professor Henri Pleket (em)
- professor Henk Wesseling (em)
- professor Geert Booij (em)
- professor H.W. Bodewitz (em)
- professor Göran Sundholm
- professor Leo Lucassen