Specialist academic staff working on modern and contemporary Asia in Leiden include the following:
David Henley, geography and history, Southeast Asia
Thomas Lindblad, economic history, Indonesia
Nira Wickramasinghe, modern history, South Asia
Ronki Ram, political science, India
Kasia Cwiertka, material culture, Japan
Aya Ezawa, sociology, Japan
Ethan Mark, modern history, Japan
Rogier Busser, economics, Japan
Guita Winkel, anthropology, Japan
Lindsay Black, international relations, East Asia
Frank Pieke, anthropology, China
Peter Ho, economics and development studies, China
Stefan Landsberger, social studies, China
Florian Schneider, political science and media studies, China
Koen de Ceuster, modern history, Korea