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Posthumus fellow Alicia Schrikker appointed Professor of Dutch History in the World at Leiden University
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 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.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Alicia with this appointment!
