Corinne Lisette Hofman FBA (born 10 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Caribbean Archaeology at

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since 2007, where has been awarded several accolades including the Dutch

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. In 2023

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placed her on leave to investigate long-running cases of intimidation, discrimination, abuse of power and violation of scientific integrity.

Career

Hofman was born in

Wassenaar Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands. An affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the Nort ...

. She obtained a PhD at Leiden University in 1993 investigating Precolonial Saba. She became a full professor in 2007 and Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology in 2013. In 2013 Hofman won the Merian Prize of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

. The Merian Prize is awarded to excelling women scientists, inspiring others to pursue a career in science. In 2014 she was one of four winners of the Dutch

and received a 2,5 million euro grant. Since 2015 Hofman has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hofman was elected a member of

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in 2016. In 2018 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the

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. As of 2024 she was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the archaeology journal

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. In 2023

placed her on leave to investigate long-running cases of intimidation, discrimination, abuse of power and violation of scientific integrity. The accusations related to Hofman and her husband, and fellow member of archaeology department, Menno Hoogland. The following year, the University of Leiden published an anonymised report that substantiated the accusations. The report "describes a decades-long culture of fear in which Hofman and Hoogland exhibited transgressive behaviour, violated scientific integrity, abused their power and possibly committed criminal offences."

References

External links

Profile at Leiden University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hofman, Corinne 1959 births Living people 21st-century Dutch archaeologists Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Wassenaar Pre-Columbian scholars Spinoza Prize winners Dutch women archaeologists