{"id":7374,"date":"2026-02-11T17:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:15:28","slug":"alicia-schrikker-appointed-professor-dutch-history-in-the-world-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?p=7374","title":{"rendered":"Posthumus fellow Alicia Schrikker appointed Professor of Dutch History in the World at Leiden University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, as Professor of Dutch History in the World, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute of History (Faculty of Humanities).<\/p>\n<p>Alicia Schrikker is Director of Research at the Leiden University Institute for History. She is interested in society-state interaction in colonial contexts in Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She supervises BA, MA and Phd research in the fields of socio-legal history, history of disasters and colonial mentality. Her regions of expertise are Sri Lanka, Indonesia and to some extent, South Africa and India.<\/p>\n<p>The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Alicia with this appointment!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bttn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/news\/2026\/01\/alicia-schrikker-appointed-professor-of-dutch-history-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEWS ITEM LEIDEN UNIVERSITY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, as Professor of Dutch History in the World, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute of History (Faculty of Humanities). Alicia Schrikker is Director of Research at the Leiden University Institute for History. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}