{"id":6603,"date":"2025-07-09T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/?page_id=6603"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:58:54","slug":"phds-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?page_id=6603","title":{"rendered":"PhD Candidates &#8211; Cohort 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #830184;font-size: x-small\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/phds-2024\/\">&lt;&lt; to cohort 2024<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6915 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joeri-Aerts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Joeri Aerts<\/span><\/strong> (University of Antwerp) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uantwerpen.be\/en\/staff\/joeri-aerts_26102\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sociaal-ruimtelijke aspecten van ongelijkheid in sterfte in de stad Antwerpen (1820-1946)<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of project Sociale Ongelijkheid in Sterfte (S.O.S.) Antwerpen)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6912 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Magde-Bieliniene-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Magd\u0117 Bielinien\u0117<\/span><\/strong> (KU Leuven) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.kuleuven.be\/middeleeuwen\/english\/about-us\/staff\/00175419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Freedom through trade: The illegal rural trade in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1600-1795<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6911 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stephanie-de-Graaf-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Stephanie de Graaf<\/span><\/strong> (University of Antwerp) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uantwerpen.be\/en\/staff\/stephanie-de-graaf_28807\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>From countryside to city and back: Everyday mobility and the making of rural-urban relations in 19th- and 20th-century Belgium<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of IMPULS project)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6910 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Femke-De-Nil-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Femke De Nil<\/span><\/strong> (Ghent University) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.flw.ugent.be\/en\/femke.denil\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Carrying copper (industries). On the role of science and nature in colonial railway building and exploitation across the Central African Copperbelt (ca. 1900 &#8211; ca. 1965)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7105 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/708\/2025\/11\/Galindo_PosthumusInstitute-003-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Portrait photo Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo<\/span><\/strong> (Wageningen University and Research) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/persons\/angelo-galindo.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"Portrait photo Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>History of Philippine deforestation (Deforestation, dispossession, division, and disaster: Mapping the (post)colonial political ecologies of Philippine forests, 1850-present)<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of project Tragedy of the tropics: Colonialism, commodities and commons in Southeast Asian deforestation since 1850)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6620 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/708\/2025\/07\/Herrendorf-150x150.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Florian Herrendorf<\/span><\/strong> (Tilburg University) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.tilburguniversity.edu\/en\/persons\/florian-herrendorf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Networked economic sovereignty: the interactions and entanglements between Rouen and L\u00fcbeck, circa 1450-1620<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of project Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty (CaPANES))<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6617 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Honos-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">B\u00e1lint Honos<\/span><\/strong> (Leiden University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roosevelt.nl\/en\/graduate-school\/phd-scholarships\/in-the-shadows-of-slavery\/balint-honos\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Forming the frontier: Slavery, westward migration and black community organization in the antebellum American West<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of project In the shadows of slavery: Free black citizenship and democracy in antebellum America)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6909 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina-1537x2048.jpg 1537w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hazifha-Dea-Iftina.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Hafizha Dea Iftina<\/span><\/strong> (Wageningen University and Research) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.wur.nl\/en\/persons\/dea-iftina\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Tragedy of the tropics: Colonialism, commodities and commons in Indonesian deforestation since 1850<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6624\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lauferts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lauferts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lauferts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lauferts.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Josephine (Josie) L\u00e4uferts<\/span><\/strong> (Utrecht University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/staff\/JLauferts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The transnational circulation of knowledge and practice in social security for migrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2017<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6902 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pablo-Merayo-Montes-278x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"278\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Pablo Merayo Montes<\/span><\/strong> (Leiden University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/staffmembers\/pablo-merayo-montes#tab-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Nederlandse gastarbeiders in 18e eeuws Spanje<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6612\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nabami-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Naomi Nabami<\/span><\/strong> (University of Antwerp) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uantwerpen.be\/en\/staff\/naomi-nabami-muheme_28000\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Women vendors: a history of female commercial activity across the Uganda-Congo border during the 20th century<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7073\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nijman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait photo Brecht Nijman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Brecht Nijman<\/span><\/strong> (Radboud University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brecht-nijman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Shipping that counts: Intra-Asian shipping and trade networks between disruptions and resilience, ca. 1650-1795<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3164 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Person_symbol-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"114\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Lara Sarcinella<\/span><\/strong> (University of Antwerp) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uantwerpen.be\/en\/staff\/lara-sarcinella_27952\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Quantifying the impact of the Dutch welfare state during its first decades after creation<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of projects &#8216;Rebound&#8217; and\u00a0 &#8216;Social History of Finance&#8217;)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6907 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Savvas-Skoufaridis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Savvas Skoufaridis<\/span><\/strong> (Leiden University) <a href=\"http:\/\/universiteitleiden.nl\/medewerkers\/savvas-skoufaridis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Why and how was public discourse on male sexuality in Cyprus between 1939 and 1974 connected to the tension between colonialism and maintenance of national identity?<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6907 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Titus-Stam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Titus Stam<\/span><\/strong> (Utrecht University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/titus-stam-42b4551b6\/?originalSubdomain=nl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Associations and the Iron Law of oligarchy in modern Western Europe<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6604 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Titulaer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Saskia Titulaer<\/span><\/strong> (Wageningen University and Research) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/persons\/saskia-titulaer-1.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Empowered women, healthier nations? How female political empowerment impacted public health spending in interwar Europe<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6903 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pepijn-Trienekens-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Pepijn Trienekens<\/span><\/strong> (International Institute of Social History \/ Radboud University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ru.nl\/en\/people\/trienekens-p\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Dynamics of coercion and resistance on Insinger plantations<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6905 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Koen-Martijn-van-der-Lijn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Koen Martijn van der Lijn<\/span><\/strong> (Leiden University) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/staffmembers\/koen-van-der-lijn#tab-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Securing passage: Regulating Chinese migrant labor to the Dutch East Indies (1888-1911)<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>(part of larger project by the same name)<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7088\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VanHiel2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VanHiel2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VanHiel2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VanHiel2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Helena Van Hiel<\/span><\/strong> (Ghent University)<br \/>\n<em>Sports &amp; Human Health at Seaside Resorts<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6904 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Seb-Verlinden-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Seb-Verlinden-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Seb-Verlinden.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #830184\">Seb Verlinden<\/span><\/strong> (KU Leuven) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.kuleuven.be\/middeleeuwen\/english\/about-us\/staff\/00157657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/icons8-link-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Designing deserts? 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