Staff

Ancient History

Name	Function	Expertise	Disciplines
Britton, T.M., BA	PhD student	Hellenistic history; Hellenistic kingship; city-ruler relations
Burgio, C.N., MA	PhD student
Capoferri, M.
Chen, D., MA	PhD student	Late Hellenistic Asia Minor; Greco-Roman Relationship; International Relations in Ancient World; Civic and Diplomatic Activities of Greek Poleis	History Classics
Daniels, drs. J.S.		Ancient History; Roman Colonisation; Roman Greece; Roman Politics; Settler Colonialism	History
Danon, dr. ir. B.	Assistant Professor of Ancient History	Socio-economic history of Roman Empire. Ancient economic inequality. Roman slavery. Roman urbanisation. Mass violence and genocide in Roman warfare. Military logistics in the Late Roman Republic.	History Archaeology Classics
Dickenson, C.P., PhD		I am an Ancient Historian and Classical Archaeologist currently teaching for the University of Groningen. My work focuses on public space, public life, and statues and monuments in Hellenistic and Roman Greece and in the ancient world more broadly. I teach a broad range of courses at BA and MA level in the History and Archaeology departments and have a particular affinity with cultural and political approaches to the ancient world. I am currently engaged in publishing the votive portrait statues from the Hellenistic and Roman period Artemision at Messene. The project aims to casts new light on why people dedicated statues of themselves in sanctuaries, to explore the experience of viewing religious scultpure and to develop new methods for using 3D computer technology for archaeological reconstruction.	History Archaeology Classics
Drijvers, dr. J.W.	Associate Professor/Reader in Ancient History	Late Antiquity, Culture of leadership in the late Roman Empire, Christianization of the Roman Empire, Late-antique historiography (Ammianus Marcellinus), Latin panegyrics	History Classics
Hove, R. Van, Dr	Assistant Professor of Ancient History	- history of archaic and classical Greece - ancient religion - divination - Athenian law and rhetoric - Greek epigraphy - cultural history	History Classics
Nijf, prof. dr. O.M. van	Professor of Ancient History	Political, Cultural and Social History of the Greek city in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; Sport history, Greek Festivals, Epigraphy, Citizenship, Funerary culture .	History Classics
Oomen, J.	PhD student	Roman (Social) History, Funerary Epigraphy, Greco-Roman Sicily, Identity	History
Pelgrom, dr. J.	Assistant Professor	Roman Imperialism and Colonialism, Roman Republic, Roman Rural History, Hellenistic Italy, History of Ideas, Landscape archaeology	History
Schievink, P., MA	PhD-Candidate	Ancient history; Graeco-Roman Religion; Asklepios	History
Sieiro van der Beek, T.C., MA
Speksnijder, S.A.	PhD student	Roman History, social and cultural history of the Late Republic and Early Empire, Roman eating rituals, Roman greeting rituals, social hierarchy.	History Classics
Vari, V.	PhD candidate		History Archaeology
Vermeulen, dr. A.E.		Roman imperialism; Roman land division; (Roman) Colonial landscapes; Roman land surveyors	History Archaeology
Whiting, M.E.S., Dr	Postdoctoral Researcher	I am a historian of the late antique and early medieval eastern Mediterranean, interested in how societies experience and adapt to major change. My research explores the transition from the Roman to the early Islamic world, focusing on everyday life and how people navigated shifts in religion, identity, and power. My research connects imperial representations of space - such as Constantinople in Procopius’ Buildings - with the lived experience of urban communities in the Near East. A key strand of my work examines questions of gender and agency, particularly how women participated in and shaped religious life. I am especially interested in practices such as pilgrimage, where individuals and communities negotiated belief, identity, and social roles in ways that do not always fit elite or institutional narratives. I combine archaeological fieldwork with textual sources and digital tools to reconstruct lived experience. Much of my research draws on excavations at sites such as Jerash and Petra in modern Jordan, where the material record offers a unique window into how communities reshaped their environments and traditions across periods of transformation. My publications examine topics including pilgrimage, urban space, and networks of mobility, and I am currently completing a monograph on travel and connectivity in the Late Antique Near East. In my teaching, I encourage students to think critically about cultural interaction, diversity, and the ways in which historical actors exercised agency within changing worlds.	History Archaeology Religion
Williamson, C.G., Dr	Associate professor - ancient history	spatial approaches, temporality, digital history, Greek sanctuaries, Greek religion, urbanization, landscape, deep-mapping, network theory, ritual performance, cultural interaction, collective identity, territorial formation, Hellenistic world, Asia Minor	History Archaeology Classics
Wiznura, A.J.R., MA	PhD student	Hellenistic history, Thessaly, network theory, cults and festivals, regional identity	History Archaeology Classics
Wouters, dr. D.	Postoctoral researcher	Latin literature of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Classical knowledge in Dutch colonialism, history of ideas and religion, European drama, visionary literature and Hildegard of Bingen, dialogue and debate literature	Literature Classics History

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