Ted Meijer Prize
Ted Meijer Prize
The Ted Meijer Prize is an award established to honour the legacy of the ex-director of the KNIR who died in 1997. Ted Meijer was firmly dedicated to the study and preservation of the diverse cultural heritage of Italy and Rome in particular. Accordingly, this prize is awarded once a year for the best (R)MA thesis or PhD thesis in the field of the humanities that contributes significantly to these areas of research.
The prize comes in the form of a scholarship consisting of:
1. free lodging at the KNIR for ten weeks;
2. a weekly allowance of € 200,- (in case of a (R)MA thesis) or € 250,- (in case of a PhD thesis) for your general expenses during your stay in Rome;
3. a reimbursement of up to € 500,- for your travelling expenses to Rome and within Italy.
Application requirements
Eligible are (R)MA theses and dissertations that have been completed and successfully defended at one of our partner universities (RUG, RU, UU, UL, UvA, VU) in the 18 months prior to the application deadline. Apart from the quality of the thesis/dissertation, applications will also be assessed based on a (provisional) research plan for the scholarship (e.g. for preparing a new project, writing an article). Moreover, your thesis supervisor has to provide us with a recommendation letter.
Please note that if you have recently graduated or obtained a PhD, and want to pursue a research career, you can also apply for a (regular) KNIR scholarship for preparing a PhD- or postdoctoral project.
How to apply?
Instructions on how to apply and the next deadline will follow in due course.
Former Prize Winners
The Ted Meijer Prize 2024 is awarded to Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues for his thesis Living Among The Graves: The Cult of the Dead from Rome to Donatist Africa.
The Ted Meijer Prize 2023 is awarded to Maarten Schmaal for his thesis Imperialist Dynamics Between Lineage and State in the Long Fourth Century (403-293 BCE): Evidence for a Grand Bargain in Central Italy?
The Ted Meijer Prize 2022 is awarded to Claudia Minchilli for her dissertation Localising Digital Diasporas. Diasporic digital networking among Somali, Romanian and Turkish women in Rome through the lens of social class.
The Ted Meijer Prize 2021 is awarded to Warja Tolstoj for her thesis Domine Quo Vadis: Appropriation, Veneration and Fabrication, Traces of the Divine.