Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) offer three four-year PhD positions at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. The PhD students will be working at the Leiden-based KITLV, an institute of the KNAW, and will defend their PhD thesis at Leiden University. One position is shared with the Faculty of Humanities, one with the Faculty of Law, and one with the Faculty of Social Sciences. The PhD candidates will be jointly supervised by senior researchers at KITLV and Leiden University.