Willem F.H. Adelaar - Curriculum Vitae#

• Emeritus professor Languages and Cultures of Indigenous America
  
• Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
  
• Leiden University, the Netherlands

• MA degree (doctorandus) in Chinese language and literature, with minors in General linguistics (focus on Quechua), Japanese and Korean linguistics. Leiden University, 1969
  
• Spanish language and literature (one year). Leiden University, 1967
  
• PhD University of Amsterdam (cum laude), 1977. Title of dissertation: Tarma Quechua: Grammar, Texts, Dictionary (supervisors S.C. Dik and A.H. Kuipers)

• 1969 - 1970 Research-assistant in the department of General Linguistics, Leiden University
  
• 1970 - 1971 Stipend grant of the Netherlands Organization for Pure Scientific Research (ZWO) for research on Quechua in Peru
  
• 1971 - 1977 Lecturer in General Linguistics, Leiden University
  
• 1977 - 1978 Lecturer in Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University
  
• 1978 - 1993 Senior lecturer in Amerindian linguistics in the department of Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University
  
• 1994 - 2017 Full professor of Languages and Cultures of Indigenous America, Leiden University
  
• 1999 - 2000 Resident-fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar
  
• 2002, 2008 Visiting fellow Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria (Australia)
  
• 2012 - 2017 Director and principal investigator of ERC Advanced project “The Linguistic Past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: A search for migratory relations between Middle and South America" (Program FP7; cooperation Leiden University and Max Planck Institute EVA in Leipzig)
  
• 2016 - 2018 Principal investigator for the Leiden branch of the ERC Twinning project "Engaged Humanities" (Program H2020; cooperation Faculty of 'Artes Liberales', University of Warsaw, SOAS University of London, UK, and the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology, Leiden University)