Steven Denney Leiden University

A selection of the courses I teach at Leiden University, along with my thesis and PhD supervision and open resources for research methods and computational text analysis.

Courses

BAKorean Studies

Introduction to Computational Text Analysis

Foundational text-as-data methods applied to Korean-language sources, from historical documents to political speeches and media content.

BAKorean Studies

Text as Data

Computational text analysis for the humanities, working with corpora and methods from natural language processing.

BAKorean Studies

BA Thesis Seminar

Designing and carrying out BA thesis research, from research question and literature review to method.

BAInternational Studies

International Relations

An introduction to the major theories and contemporary issues in global politics.

Supervision

I supervise BA and MA theses across four programs in International Studies, Korean Studies, Asian Studies, and International Relations. I also supervise PhD research and accept new candidates on a rolling basis.

Open Resources

NLP Corpora for Korean Studies

Text corpora on Korea, from historical magazines and textbooks to political speeches and social media, prepared for teaching and research.

AI for Research

Guides, runnable demos, and lecture slides for working with AI agents in empirical social science.

Open Science Skills

Open research-methods skills for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, the toolkit used in AI for Research.

Pixels and Patterns

Writing on how to use AI ethically and responsibly in research and computational work.