Email:

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Phone:

212-769-5741

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212-769-5334

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

Education

• Leiden University, Ph.D., 2005
• Rotterdam School of Management, M.B.A., 1998
• Leiden University, Ph.D., 1995
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, M.A., 1993
• Leiden University, M.A./B.A., 1992

Research Interests

Dr. de Voogt’s research interests concentrate on the dispersal of board games and the development and history of scripts. The dispersal of mancala board games, a group of games characterized by rows of holes and a proportionate number of identical playing counters, extends from South East and South Asia to Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and parts of South America. Their distribution is related to historical human migration and trade routes. Despite the wide variation of rules, some mancala games have dispersed across cultural, linguistic, and geographic borders without a significant change in playing rules for several hundreds of years. Research has concentrated on the history of the games as well as on the expertise of some master players. The study of language and writing systems goes back to Dr. de Voogt’s training in linguistics. The complexity and adaptive ability of scripts is a central topic. With the help of linguistic fieldwork and museum studies, a contribution is made to the study and understanding of the Meroitic script and language that was used in the Kingdom of Kush, present-day Sudan, between 200 BC and 400 AD. But his research also includes studies of, for instance, the Maldivian script that exemplifies the contact and competition between scripts in modern times.

• Publications

  (Selected)

  2012 Claude Rilly & Alex de Voogt.The Meroitic language and writing system. New York: Cambridge University Press.

  2012 Alex de Voogt & Vincent Francigny. Opening a grave in antiquity: formation and interpretation in the Kingdom of Meroe.Journal of African Archaeology 10(1). doi 10.3213/2191-5784-10204

  2012 Alex de Voogt & Hans-Jörg Doehla. Nubian graffiti messages and the history of writing in the Sudanese Nile basin. In Alex de Voogt & Joachim Quack (eds.) The idea of writing: writing across borders, pp. 53–68. Brill, Leiden.

  2011 Alex de Voogt. Dual marking and kinship terms in Afitti. Studies in Language 35(4): 898–911.

  2010 Alex de Voogt. Mancala players in Palmyra. Antiquity 84(326):1055–1066.

  2010 Alex de Voogt. Languages and scripts in the Maldive Islands: coding and encoding. In Alex de Voogt & Irving Finkel (eds.),The Idea of Writing: play and complexity, pp. 197–205.Brill, Leiden.

  2009 Alex de Voogt. A sketch of Afitti phonology. Studies in African Linguistics 38(1):35–51.

  2007 Alex de Voogt & Robert R.A. van Doorn. The paradox of helicopter emergency training. Journal of Aviation Psychology, 17(3):265–274.

  2004 Fernand Gobet, Alex de Voogt & Jean Retschitzki. Moves in Mind—the psychology of board games. Psychology Press: Hove, UK.

  1997 Alex de Voogt. Mancala Board Games. British Museum Press: London.

• Teaching Experience

  Faculty Appointments 

  • Assistant Professor of Work and Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, 2005–2009
  • Assistant Professor of International and Non-Profit Marketing, Department of Management, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2002–2009
  • Coordinator & teacher in the Advanced Master’s Programme (M.Phil.), School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1998–2003
  • Visiting professor/lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2000–2001, 2007

  Courses Taught

  • Africa & Expertise, Fieldwork and the Psychological Experiment, Cross-cultural Psychology, Interdisciplinary Research Methods

       Graduate Advisees

       Graduate Committees