Full professors

Prof. dr. mr. Rutger J. Allan – Professor of Greek Language and Literature
Affiliation: VU, Arts and Culture, History, Antiquity
Focus: Linguistics, discourse analysis, narratology, cognitive theory
Email: r.j.allan@vu.nl

Prof. dr. Jan Paul Crielaard – Professor of Mediterranean Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity
Focus: The Greek world during the Bronze Age / Iron Age transition; Mediterranean interconnectivity; construction of identities during the Archaic period; social aspects of exchanges and migration; interconnections between archaeology and literary evidence
Email: j.p.crielaard@vu.nl

Prof. dr. Luuk Huitink – Professor of Greek and Latin Literature in Context
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Linguistics, narratological and cognitive approaches to Greek and Latin literature, in particular historiography and the ancient rhetorical tradition
Email: l.huitink@uva.nl

Prof. dr. Caroline H.M. Kroon – Professor of Latin Linguistics and Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Classical Latin literature, specifically an interdisciplinary approach crossing the border between linguistics and literary studies
Email: c.h.m.kroon@uva.nl

Prof. dr. Marije Martijn – Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy
Affiliation: VU, Ancient, Patristic and Medieval Philosophy
Focus: Neoplatonic philosophy. Especially theories of knowledge, nature, mathematics. 
Email: m.martijn@vu.nl

Prof. dr. R. Bas ter Haar Romeny – Professor of Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History.
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity
Focus: The interaction between the Greek-speaking world and users of Semitic and other oriental languages in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods, the formation and identity of minority groups in these areas and periods, in particular Jews and Syriac-speaking Christians
Email: bas.ter.haarromeny@vu.nl

Prof. dr. Daniëlle Slootjes – Professor of Ancient History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: Late Antiquity and Byzantium, ancient geography, concepts of boundaries, early Christianity, ancient crowds
Email: d.slootjes@uva.nl

Prof. dr. Vladimir Stissi – Professor of Classical Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Greek pottery, landscape and survey archaeology, material culture of sanctuaries, visual culture, history of archaeology, household archaeology, archaeological heritage in the contemporary world
Email: v.v.stissi@uva.nl

Prof. dr. James Symonds – Professor of Historical Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: The archaeology of the modern world, c. AD 1450 to the present, with particular attention to capitalism, Dutch and British colonial expansion, and landscapes of improvement, migration and dispossession. Current work extends into the archaeology of the contemporary past, including Cold War borders, conflict heritage and the material politics of decolonisation
Email: j.symonds2@uva.nl

Professor by special appointment

Prof. dr. Joost J.M. Hazenbos – Professor of Hittite
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Hittite and related Anatolian languages and cultures, with a specific focus on Anatolian history in the pre-classical period
Email: j.j.m.hazenbos@uva.nl

Associate professors

Dr. Mark A.J. Heerink – Associate professor of Latin Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Hellenistic Greek and Roman poetry, modern literary theory (intertextuality, metapoetics), textual criticism
Email: m.a.j.heerink@uva.nl

Dr. Jill R. Hilditch – Associate professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Bronze Age Aegean and ceramic studies
Email: j.r.hilditch@uva.nl

Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving – Associate professor of Geoarchaeology and Anthropocene Studies
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Applying earth sciences to archeology in interdisciplinary research and teaching, with emphasis on the Anthropocene
Email: s.j.kluiving@vu.nl

Dr. Sofie M.J. Remijsen – Associate professor of Ancient History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: The culture and society of the Roman Empire including Late Antiquity, sport and games, papyri from Egypt, calendars and the use of time
Email: s.m.j.remijsen@uva.nl

Dr. Philip Verhagen – Associate professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Computational archaeology (GIS and spatial analysis, statistics, simulation modelling), landscape archaeology (settlement patterns, mobility, survey methods), Roman archaeology of the Netherlands
Email: j.w.h.p.verhagen@vu.nl

Dr. Nienke Vos – Associate professor of Early Christian Greek and Latin
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Early Christian texts, the use of Scripture, hagiography, narratology and discourse linguistics, the sayings of the desert fathers and mothers
Email: n.m.vos@vu.nl

Dr. Gert Jan M. van Wijngaarden – Associate professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Mediterranean interconnections of pre- and protohistoric Greece, landscape archaeology of the Ionian Islands, the history and methodology of archaeology
Email: g.j.m.vanwijngaarden@uva.nl

Assistant professors

Dr. Joris Aarts – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Provincial-Roman archaeology, ancient numismatics
Email: j.g.aarts@vu.nl 

Dr. Mathieu P. de Bakker – Assistant professor of Greek Language
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Ancient Greek language and literature, with special attention to Herodotus, the Greek historiographical tradition and epigraphy.
Email: m.p.debakker@uva.nl

Dr. Dries Daems – Assistant Professor of Spatial Digital HumanitiesAffiliation
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: The study of social complexity, urbanism, economic production, connectivity, and human-environment interactions in the Iron Age to Hellenistic Mediterranean through simulation modelling, network science, spatial analysis, machine learning, and ceramics analysis
Email: d.daems@vu.nl

Dr. Fokke Gerritsen – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Archaeology of Anatolia and the Near East and early farming societies
Email: f.a.gerritsen@vu.nl

Dr. Lidewij W. van Gils – Assistant professor of Latin Language
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: The use of the Latin language in classical prose and effective teaching of Classical languages and cultures.
Email: l.w.vangils@uva.nl

Dr. Martijn Icks – Assistant professor of Political history of the Roman Empire
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: The representation and perception of imperial power, Roman art and coinage, imperial rituals, gender and reception studies.
Email: m.icks@uva.nl

Dr. Konstantin M. Klein – Assistant professor of Ancient History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: The history of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Late Antiquity; late antique hagiography, monasticism, and religious culture; the history of emotions in Classical Greece; environmental history, with particular attention to plants and human interactions with the natural world in antiquity; and the study and digital publication of Greek, Latin, and Aramaic inscriptions, especially those from the city of Palmyra in Syria
Email: k.m.klein@uva.nl

Dr. Mieke Koenen – Assistant professor of Reception
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: The reception of Classical antiquity in modern Dutch poetry, and Lucretius’s Latin didactic poem
Email: m.h.koenen@vu.nl

Dr. Heleen van Londen – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Landscape archaeology, heritage, archaeological heritage management, archaeological fieldwork and Roman archaeology
Email: h.vanlonden@uva.nl

Dr. Hayley L. Mickleburgh – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: The archaeology of death and burial, forensic archaeology, forensic taphonomy, mass graves, 3D visualization and digital archaeology, sensory archaeology, traumascapes and contested heritage, ethics regarding human remains in archaeology and museum contexts, and Caribbean archaeology
Email: h.l.mickleburgh@uva.nl

Dr. Emilie M. van Opstall – Assistant professor of Ancient Greek Literature
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: storytelling, textuality and orality, performance, reception
Email: e.m.van.opstall@vu.nl

Dr. Mieke Prent – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, Crete, Perioikic Laconia, Greek religion and cult
Email: a.prent@vu.nl

Dr. Claire A. Stocks – Assistant professor of Latin literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Literary culture (especially Roman), creative writing and storytelling, and digital humanities (especially games) with a particular focus on how audiences conceptualize the past
Email: c.a.stocks@uva.nl

Dr. Klazina Staat – Assistant professor of Latin Language and Literature and Roman Cultural History
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Latin in the European tradition, classical, late antique, and early medieval literatures and their receptions, Latin and Greek hagiography and patristics, travel literature, gender and female authorship, mountains and the view from above
Email: k.staat@vu.nl

Dr. Shiyanthi Thavapalan – Assistant professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Ancient colour language and cognition, Akkadian technical recipes, the history of crafts and technologies in Mesopotamia, and integrating methodologies in cultural anthropology with philology and material culture studies.
Email: s.thavapalan@vu.nl

Dr. Philip Verhagen – Assistant professor of Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Computational archaeology (GIS and spatial analysis, statistics, simulation modelling), landscape archaeology (settlement patterns, mobility, survey methods), Roman archaeology of the Netherlands
Email: j.w.h.p.verhagen@vu.nl

Dr. Berenice Verhelst – Assistant professor of Greek Language and Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: The diachrony of the Greek and Latin epic tradition; Late Antique poetry, specifically the Greek epics of Nonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the epyllia of the so-called Nonnian poets, and Aelia Eudocia; Narratology; Characterization through speech; Digital Classics
Email: b.verhelst@uva.nl

Dr. Shana S. Zaia – Assistant professor of Ancient Near Eastern History
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Ancient Near East/Assyriology, ancient studies
Email: s.s.zaia@vu.nl

Lecturers

Dr. Kay Boers – Lecturer in Ancient History, Early Medieval History and Byzantine History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: History and archaeology of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, with a specific interest in the reception of classical literature, language, and material culture in the Post-Roman World
Email: k.boers@uva.nl

Dr. Merlijn R.E. Breunesse – Lecturer in Latin
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Latin language, literature and linguistics
Email: m.r.e.breunesse@uva.nl

Dr. Chiara Cavallo – Lecturer in Zooarchaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: The methodology of zooarchaeology and the study of animal remains found in archaeological excavations
Email: c.cavallo@uva.nl

Dr. Melanie Groß – Lecturer in Assyriology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Social and economic history of the first millennium BCE Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia)
Email: m.m.gross@vu.nl

Dr. Anique M. Hamelink – Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: Identity, funerary culture, monumentality, imperialism, social history, public history, gender history, clothing culture, and textile archaeology
Email: a.m.hamelink@uva.nl

Dr. Elon D. Heijmans – Lecturer in Ancient History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: History and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, the emergence of money in antiquity
Email: e.d.heijmans@uva.nl

Dr. Berber S. van der Meulen-van der Veen – Lecturer in Historical Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Provincial Roman archaeology and material culture, Late Roman period, villa landscapes, archaeometry, archaeometallurgy
Email: b.s.vandermeulen@uva.nl

Eline E.H.M. Verburg, MA – Lecturer in Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Archaeological heritage, collection history, Etruscan archaeology
Email: e.h.m.verburg@uva.nl

Dr. Anouk Vermeulen – Lecturer in Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Roman imperialism and colonisation; landscape archaeology of the Roman provinces
Email: a.e.vermeulen@vu.nl

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr. Sanne van den Berg – Postdoctoral researcher in Latin
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: The style of death scenes in Flavian epic, using these case studies as a starting point for a re-evaluation of Flavian style.
Email: g.h.vandenberg@uva.nl

Dr. Mark R. Groenhuijzen – Postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Landscape archaeology, computational methods, lower Roman-Germanic border
Email: m.r.groenhuijzen@vu.nl

Dr. Eric D. Johnson – Postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Historical archaeology, history of capitalism, indigenous North America, Atlantic world, landscape archaeology
Email: e.d.johnson@uva.nl

Dr. Nour A. Munawar – Postdoctoral researcher in Heritage Studies and Contemporary Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Critical heritage studies, memory studies, historical and contemporary archaeology, museum studies, identity and heritage politics, uses of the past, heritage governance, colonialism and postcolonialism, migration and diaspora, decolonization of heritage and museology in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA), the Arab region, Eastern Europe, and beyond
Email: n.a.munawar@uva.nl

PhD candidates

Aldo J. Accinelli Obando, MA – PhD candidate in Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Upper-class households and their colonial legacies
Email: a.j.accinelliobando@uva.nl

Sebastiaan (Bas) G. Clercx, MA – PhD candidate in Domain Specific Learning (Classics)
Affiliation: UvA, Domain Specific Learning
Focus: Dilemmas faced by and agency of classics teachers when selecting literary texts for the classics school-based curriculum
Email: s.g.clercx@uva.nl

Federica Colella, MA – PhD candidate in Latin Language
Affiliation: UvA, University of Campania
Focus: The embodiment of emotions, cognitive linguistics and narratology
Email: f.colella@uva.nl

Drs. Anja D. Fischer – PhD candidate in Paleobotany
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Archaeobotany, SedaDNA, Digital Humanities
Email: a.d.fischer@uva.nl

Boris C. Hoetjes, MA – PhD candidate in Latin Languages
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Virgil, narratology, ambiguity
Email: b.c.hoetjes@uva.nl

Kevin M.W. Hoogeveen, MA – PhD candidate in Ancient History
Affiliation: UvA, History
Focus: Mobility on the Egyptian countryside and the power of the people of rural Egypt in the Byzantine period
Email: k.m.w.hoogeveen@uva.nl

Lotte M. Knijn, MA – PhD candidate in Latin Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Late antique Greek epic, stylometry, speech in epic poetry, Quintus of Smyrna
Email: l.m.knijn@uva.nl

Annelies Koopman, MA – PhD candidate in Archaeology
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Geoarchaeology, landscape archaeology; research on the interface between earth sciences and archaeology
Email: a.koopman@vu.nl

Imme F. Laseur, MA – PhD candidate in Latin Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Latin historiography, female-political narratives, narratology, cognitive linguistics, Livy, Tacitus
Email: i.f.laseur@uva.nl

Maarten-Pieter S. Moolenburgh, MA – PhD candidate in Greek Literature
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Greek literature of the fifth and fourth century BCE, environmental discourse, colonisation and imperialism, ecocriticism, history of ideas
Email: m.s.moolenburgh@vu.nl

Elizabeth P. Palacios Ramos, MA – PhD candidate in Cultural Studies
Affiliation: UvA, General cultural studies
Focus: Early collecting and interpretations of pre-Columbian textiles from Peru in 19 and early 20th century
Email: e.p.palaciosramos@uva.nl

Ramon L. Selles, MA – PhD candidate in Latin Literature
Affiliation: UvA, Classics
Focus: Imperial Latin literature, Neronian and Flavian discourse about humans and the nonhuman world, ecocriticism
Email: r.selles@uva.nl

Anne I. Versloot, MA – PhD candidate in Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus:
Email: a.i.versloot@uva.nl

Chendi Wang – PhD candidate in Archaeology
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and past human-environment interactions, using a multi-proxy approach that integrates pollen, phytolith, charcoal, and soil chemistry analyses at the intersection of archaeology and natural history
Email: c.wang5@uva.nl

Support and management staff

Bart van Aert – Study adviser
Affiliation: UvA, Faculty of Humanities
Focus: Questions about your curriculum, your planning or personal circumstances that are affecting your studies
Email: studieadviseur-acasa-fgw@uva.nl

Olivier Q. Bliek – Operations coordinator
Affiliation: UvA
Focus: HR administration, general administration, facilities coordination, basic financial tasks.
Email: acasa-cbv-fgw@uva.nl

Dr. Menno F.P. Dijkstra – Support staff fieldwork and depot
Affiliation: UvA, FGw
Focus: Medieval and post medieval archaeology of north-west Europe, especially the period AD 450-1250
Email: m.f.p.dijkstra@uva.nl

Maaike E.J.M. van Etten – Management assistent
Affiliation: UvA
Focus: Administrative support, front office
Email: secretariaat-acasa-fgw@uva.nl

Drs. Anne van Hilst – Archaeological fieldwork coordinator
Affiliation: VU, Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
Focus: Archaeological fieldwork, innovative field methods, rural settlements and landscapes, Roman charcoal and iron production
Email: a.m.van.hilst@vu.nl

Drs. Agaath J. Homminga – Head of operational management
Affiliation: UvA
Focus: Policy advice, finances, management
Email: acasa-bv-fgw@uva.nl

Drs. Maja L. d’Hollosy – Teaching and research assistant
Affiliation: UvA
Focus: Osteoarchaeology
Email: m.l.dhollosy@uva.nl

Mikko Kriek – Archaeological illustrator
Affiliation: UvA, 4D Research Lab
Focus: Archaeological illustration, graphic design and 3D modelling and reconstruction
Email: m.h.kriek@uva.nl

Tijm J.R. Lanjouw – 3D technician and modeller
Affiliation: UvA, 4D Research Lab
Focus: Computer applications, in particular the use of 3D modelling as a research tool
Email: t.j.r.lanjouw@uva.nl

Matthijs van Oeveren, MA – Programme coordinator
Affiliation: UvA
Focus: Logistical and organisational aspects of education
Email: m.vanoeveren@uva.nl

Dr. Chiara B.M. Piccoli – Data scientist
Affiliation: UvA, Archaeology
Focus: The historical relationship between people, their built environments, and their material culture with the aid of digital methods, in particular 3D modelling and GIS mapping
Email: c.b.m.piccoli@uva.nl

Dr. Jitte Waagen – Digital archaeology specialist
Affiliation: UvA, 4D Research Lab
Focus: Archaeological prospection, (UAS) remote sensing, Geo-ICT, statistics, 3D modeling, eXtended Reality and Blended Learning
Email: j.waagen@uva.nl