PhD Projects

GIA is associated with ARCHON, the national research institute and graduate school, which comprises the archaeology departments of five universities and the National Service for archaeological heritage (RACM). ARCHON is responsible for the training program of the PhD students; however from 2004 onwards GIA PhD students will also attend the practical and interdisciplinary courses of the Graduate School  for the Humanities (GSH). The training programs of ARCHON and GSH consist of basic courses and seminars whereas most GIA activities take the form of special courses requested by the students, or workshops, seminars and conferences.  

 

Current GIA PhD projects:

 

Ypie Aalders  2007-2011

Exploitation of natural resources and cross cultural contacts of Russian Furhunters and European Whalers on Spitsbergen in the 18^th century

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord

 

Sandra Beckerman  2009-2014

Ceramic analysis of Late Neolithic settlements in the province of Noord-Holland (The Netherlands) and interregional comparison

Promotor: prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

 

Izabel Devriendt

Stone and flint artefacts from the Stone Age sites of Swifterbant

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

 

Tamara Dijkstra  2012-2016

Civic and Cultural Identities in a Changing World. Analyzing the mortuary practices of the postclassical Peloponnese.

Promotor: Prof. S. Voutsaki

Co-promotor: Prof. O.M. van Nijf

 

Rik Feiken

Geo-archaeological Approaches to the Hidden Landscapes of Italy

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

Co-promotor: Dr P.M. van Leusen

     

Ulf Gustafsson  2007-2011

The exploitation of natural resources by the early 20th century whaling industry; its impact on the environment and the geo-political situation in the Polar Regions

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord

 

Hidde de Haas  2007-2011

The coal exploitation of the Dutch Spitsbergen Coal Company (NESPICO) in Green Harbour, Spitsbergen, in its national and international context

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord

  

Francesca Ippolito  2010-2014

Before the Iron Age: the oldest settlements in the hinterland of the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy)

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema 

 

Geertje Klein Goldewijk  2007-2011

Standard of living in the Roman Empire

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema, 

Co-promotors: Dr W.M. Jongman, Prof. J.P.A.M. Jacobs

 

Marlies van Kruining  2010-2014

Surviving Arctic change by migration or adaptation

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord

 

Frigga Kruse  2008-2012

British exploration, mining, and geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord 

Co-promotor: Dr D. Avango

 

Tanja van Loon  2010-2015

Defining the ritual, analyzing society. The social significance of material culture in pre-Roman cult places of central Italy (ca. 900-400 BC) 

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

 

Steven Matthews  2007-2011

Techniques and Society: the Middle Bronze Age weapons of northwest Europe

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

Co-promotor: Dr S. Hamilton, Dr S. Arnoldussen

 

Eleni Milka

Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

Co-promotor: Dr S. Voutsaki

Further information: Middle Helladic Argolid project website

 

Wieke de Neef  2010-2015

Rural life in Protohistoric Italy: relating sub-surface remains to archaeological survey data

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

Co-promotor: Dr P.M. van Leusen

 

Marcel Niekus

Stone Age Occupation of the northern Netherlands, Time, Space, Location and Subsistence

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

 

Annet Nieuwhof

Ritual deposits in the northern Netherlands coastal area - Iron Age until Christianization

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

    

Gary Nobles  2009-2013

Spatial analysis of Late Neolithic settlements in the province of Noord-Holland (The Netherlands) and interregional comparison

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

 

E. Panagiotopoulou  2012-2016

Promotor: Prof. S. Voutsaki

 

Daniël Postma  2011-2015

Lost building traditions: turf construction and early medieval architecture in the southern North Sea area

Promotor: Prof. G.J. de Langen

   

Brigitte Postma-Saan  2011-2015

De Zuiderzee als verkeersplein: de natuurlijke en culturele context van de turfvaart over zee 1600-1900

Promotor: Prof. A.F.L. van Holk

Co-promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

 

Olaf Satijn

A socio-economic and political landscape archaeology of transition: southern Lazio from the Late Roman period to incastellamento

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

 

Mans Schepers  2009-2013

Coastal culture: a methodological palaeobotanical study on land use and landscape development in two distinct coastal areas

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers

Co-promotor: Prof. R.T.J. Cappers

 

Jorn Seubers  2011-2015

The Settlement of Crustumerium and its hinterland (800-450BC)

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

 

Tekke Terpstra  2009-2013

Transnational ties, urban networks and identity formation among Inuit migrants in Southern Canada and Denmark

Promotor: Prof. L. Hacquebord

 

Corien Wiersma  2010-2012

Transitional periods in Bronze Age mainland Greece. A household perspective of the development of social differentiation of EH3 until LH1

Promotors: Prof. P.A.J. Attema, Prof. S. Voutsaki

    

Sarah Willemsen  2008-2012

The Iron Age necropolis Monte Del Bufalo at Crustumerium (Rome)

Promotor: Prof. P.A.J. Attema

Co-promotor: Dr A.J. Nijboer

 

Inger Woltinge  2006-2011

What lies beneath: the value of buried Stone Age landscapes

Promotor: Prof. D.C.M. Raemaekers