Toby Yuen-Gen Liang

Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (Ph.D. Princeton University) is an associate research professor at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy of sciences. He was previously associate professor at National Taiwan University and at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. Liang specializes on Spanish-Mediterranean history and currently researches northern Africa as a subject of European visual media during the Age of Exploration from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (University of Pennsylvania Press) and the co-editor of three collections of essays (Routledge and Brill).

Liang is the founder of the Spain-North Africa Project and co-founder of the Wheaton Institute of the Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is a founding member and 2024 president of the Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes. He is also a founding member and serves on the editorial board of The Medieval Globe journal. Liang’s work has been funded by UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Getty Research Institute, Newberry Library, John Carter Brown Library, Taiwan’s National Science Council, the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Social Science Research Council, and Spain’s Ministry of Culture. He has for long years in Taiwan, the United States, Spain, and Syria.