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Dr. A.M. (Anique) Hamelink

Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • About

    Anique Hamelink is a lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology, specializing in the Roman period. She is an expert in the themes of identity, funerary culture, monumentality, imperialism, social history, public history, gender history, clothing culture, and textile archaeology. She regularly delivers public lectures both in the Netherlands and abroad, is interviewed as an expert for documentaries and exhibitions, and collaborates intensively with museums, artists, and Living History associations. She is a board member of the Living History association Legio II Augusta and chair of the civilian working group.

    In 2026, she curated the exhibition "Kapsalon RMO" at the National Museum of Antiquities

  • Publications

    2026

    • Hamelink, A. M., Iancu, A. (Ed.), & Sarri, K. (Ed.) (2026). Anything but a Distaff: the Misidentification of Textile Tools in the North-eastern Roman Provinces. In Textile Records. Functional analysis, Interpretation and Recording of Textile Related Artefacts in the Mediterranean World and Beyond (pp. 41-48). (Archaeological Textile Series). Oxbow Books.

    2025

    • Hamelink, A. M. (2025). Blurring the lines between academics, reenactors and craftspeople. In B. Griffiths, T. Ivleva, & L. Graña Nicolaou (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of experimental approaches to Roman archaeology. (pp. 37-53). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic.

    2024

    • Hamelink, A. M., Delferrière, N., & Rothe, U. (2024). Clavi auf gallischer Kleidung. In G. Kremer, E. Pollhammer, J. Kopf, & F. Beutler (Eds.), Zeit(en) des Umbruchs, Akten des 17. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum provinzialrömischen Kunstschaffen in Wien und Carnuntum, 16. – 21. Mai 2022 (pp. 51-62). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

    2023

    • Hamelink, A. M. (2023). Publicly Luxurious: Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain. In L. Dirven, S. Remijsen, & M. Icks (Eds.), In the Public Eye. Bringing ancient women out of the domestic sphere: a volume in honour of Emily Hemelrijk (pp. 249-269). (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004534513_014
    • Rothe, U., Hamelink, A., & Delferrière, N. (2023). Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries. American Journal of Archaeology, 127(4), 545-562. https://doi.org/10.1086/725914 [details]

    2021

    • van der Feijst, L., & Hamelink, A. M. (2021). Benen voorwerpen. In L. van der Feijst, E. Blom, & L. van der Leije (Eds.), De ongekend rijke dood, het Romeinse grafveld aan de Baalsestraat te Bemmel: Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van de Via15 (pp. 150-159). (ADC Rapport; No. 5440), (Archol Rapport; No. 590). ADC ArcheoProjecten [etc.].

    2020

    • Hamelink, A. (2020). The iconography of adornment: Funerary monuments from Roman Britain. In A. Binsfeld, A. Klöckner, G. Kremer, M. Reuter, M. Scholz, & U. Kelp (Eds.), Grabdenkmäler der Treverer in lokaler und überregionaler Perspektive: Stadt - Land - Fluss : Akten der Internationalen Konferenz vom 25..-27. Oktober 2018 in Neumagen und Trier (pp. 241-244). (Trierer Zeitschrift. Beiheft ; Vol. 37). Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. [details]

    2022

    2019

    • Hamelink, A. M. (2019). De Romeinse metroman. Skript: historisch tijdschrift, 41(1), 84-85.

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (21-11-2019). Sieraden in beeld: funeraire cultuur en sieraden in Italië en de noordelijke provincies, Reuvensdagen 2019, Apeldoorn. https://www.reuvensdagen.nl/sprekers-bring-in-the-bling/
    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (12-4-2019). Funerary iconography as a Middle Ground, Cultural Interactions of the Ancient World: Treading the Middle Ground, Amsterdam. https://www.archonline.nl/april-2019/treading-the-middle-ground-ciaw/
    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (22-3-2019). From toga to trousers: the laws and customs of Roman dress, Law vs Custom in Anchoring Innovation, Amsterdam.
    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (7-3-2019). A picture says more than a thousand words: Dress and identity on funerary monuments in the north-west provinces of the Roman empire, Identity: past & present, Groningen.
    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (28-11-2018). Gallic, Northern European and Roman: dress in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire, Ancient History Research Seminar, Amsterdam.
    • Hamelink, A. (speaker) (17-11-2018). Gallic, Celtic and Roman: dress traditions in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire, Anchoring innovation in handloom weaving in India
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    Others

    • Morrell, K. (organiser), Hamelink, A. M. (organiser) & Heijmans, E. (organiser) (22-3-2019 - 23-3-2019). Law vs Custom in Anchoring Innovation, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2024

    • Hamelink, A. M. (2024). Monumentalising identities: Presenting dress, gender and identity in funerary portraits in the Roman north-west. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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  • Ancillary activities
    • Legio Secunda Augusta Nederland
      Bestuurslid en voorzitter van de werkgroep Civiel
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