Willemijn Waal is university lecturer in Hittite at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies and director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO).

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Website The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

Fields of interest

• Hittitology
• Late Bronze Age Anatolia
• Ancient writing systems and early alphabetic writing
• Ancient record management, diplomatics and archival studies
• Orality and Literacy in the ancient World
• Links between ancient Near Eastern and classical epic and literature
• International relations in the ancient Near East and Aegean

Teaching activities and supervision

• Advanced Hittite
• Cultural History of Anatolia
• Epic Tales from the Ancient World
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Cuneiform Epigraphy
• The Mycenaean World
• The present and future of our past: critical approaches to heritage studies

Curriculum Vitae

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
Lecturer (UD) at Leiden University
2019- present
Policy officer internationalization & research funding
2017-2018
Director of Studies LIAS
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

Publications