Willemijn Waal is University Lecturer/Polcy Officer research funding and internationalisation at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

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Fields of interest

• Hittitology
• Ancient Writing Systems
• Ancient record management, diplomatics and archival studies
• Ancient Near Eastern Literature
• International relations in the ancient Near East and Aegean

Education

2010      Ph.D., Leiden University

2003      MA Classical Philology (Latin and Greek), University of Amsterdam (UvA)

2003      MA Anatolian Languages, University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Employment

2012 – present
Parttime lecturer (UD) at Leiden University

2015 – 2016
Post-doctoral research fellow at INSTAP (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)

2013 – 2014
Parttime lecturer (UD) at the VU University Amsterdam

2013 – 2015
Post-doctoral researcher in the project Rekonstruktion der Archive des Großen Tempels von Hattusa/Boğazköy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

2010 – 2012
Post-doctoral researcher in the NWO-funded project Impact of Migration, Leiden University

2010 – 2011
Part-time lecturer (UD) at the VU University Amsterdam

Editorial work

2013 – present
(Executive) editor of the Zenobiareeks (Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum)

2012 – present
Editor of Bibliotheca Orientalis

2007 – 2013
(Executive) editor of Phoenix. Bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, Peeters Leuven

Publications