University Lecturer Digital China

Our organisation
The Faculty of Humanities is rich in expertise in fields such as philosophy, religious studies, history, art history, literature, linguistics and area studies covering nearly every region of the world. With its staff of 995, the faculty provides 27 master’s and 25 bachelor’s programmes for over 7,000 students based at locations in Leiden and in The Hague. For more information, please see the website .

Leiden Institute for Area Studies  is comprised of a School of Asian Studies and a School of Middle-Eastern Studies, with international staff and student populations. The institute is committed to a present-day vision of area studies, integrating disciplinary and regional-historical perspectives on a solid foundation of excellent language skills. Current staff  in LIAS has expertise in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Art Studies, Buddhist Studies, Film Studies, History, International Relations, Language Pedagogy, Law, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Material Culture Studies, Performance Studies, Philology, Philosophy, Political Economy, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Visual Culture Studies.

The section of Chinese Studies at the LIAS is a vibrant community of scholars devoted to researching and teaching the languages, cultures, and societies of the Chinese speaking world. Research and teaching are strongly supported by the outstanding collections of the Asian Library of Leiden University. The closely affiliated Leiden Asia Centre is the nation’s leading platform for policy-oriented academic research on contemporary Asia.