Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2796
E-Mail:	m.riep@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, LIAS diversen
Office Address:	Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 0.09a

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PhD research

Frontiers, conquest and mobility in Central Asia between the seventh and tenth century
Supervisors: Petra Sijpesteijn (LIAS) and Etienne de la Vaissière (EPHE)

CV

Education

- PhD student at Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and l'Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris)
- BA Archaeology of the Near East (Leiden 2006)
- Doctoral General History (Leiden 2010)
- Extra grammar courses in Turkish, Middle-Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Luwian, Elamite, Akkadian, Modern Standard Arabic and Russian

Employment

Fall 2010
Research assistant in organising the congress Shifting Frontiers: Current Issues in the History of Early Islamic Central Asia (Leiden University, 17 - 18 December 2010)

2009 - 2011
Editorial assistant of JESHO (Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient)

2009
Student assistant at Praktikon, Centre for Social Research (Nijmegen University)

2009
Editorial assistant and copy editor of JESHO Jubilee Issue

2007 - 2008
Student assistant at Centre for Language and Identity (Leiden University)

2006 - present
Teaching exam courses in Geography and History
Remedial teacher: French, English, German, History, Geography

Extracurricular activities

April 20011
Lecture: Trading Captives? Human Merchandise along the Northern Frontiers of the Early Islamic Hemisphere between the 8th and 10th Century, Paris, Monde Iranien et Indien, journée des études.

February 2011
Lecture: Caught between Empires and World Systems, Universiteit Leiden, PhD seminar.

March 2010
Lecture: Central Asia: Boundaries on the move, Japan, ESF-JSPS Conference: 27 Feb - 04 March 2010: Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe.

June 2005 - September 2007
Chairman of DUSANE 2006 and 2007 (Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East).

January 2003 - July 2004
Chairman and secretary of Nabu Na’id (Studievereniging Archaeology of the Near East).