Corinne Hofman, Professor of Caribbean Archaeology at Leiden University, has been awarded the 2014 Spinoza Prize. This is the most important scientific award in the Netherlands. Corinne Hofman is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development.
Currently, Professor Hofman leads the international transdisciplinary project Nexus 1492, funded by the European Research Council. More than fifty researchers collaborate in this project to rewrite the history of the colonisation of the Americas from an Indian perspective. A large part of her team comes from the Caribbean and in her research she works together with local stakeholders.
Heritage is an important area of interest in Nexus 1492. With her research, Hofman wants to contribute to capacity building, the historic awareness and the self-consciousness of the current population of the Caribbean region.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awards the Spinoza Prize to Dutch researchers who rank among the absolute top of science.
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