VU University Amsterdam

Faculty Member, Faculty of Arts

Senior lecturer Roman archaeology

About

My main field of interest are the northwestern provinces of the Roman empire. Since I was trained in classics as well as archaeology, I have always had a strong interest in Latin epigraphy. In most of my work, I try to combine archaeological, historical as well as epigraphic evidence.

My doctoral dissertation was about religious change in Roman Gaul, a topic that continues to have my interest. More recently, however, my work has widened to include other areas of identity construction, particularly those generated by the Roman army. I have been working on seal-boxes and the latinization of the Lower Rhine frontier area, on constructs of ethnic identity in inscriptions of Batavian and other auxiliary soldiers, and on combs and bodily appearance of Roman army soldiers.


Currently, I am co-editing a volume on Roman villa-landscapes in the north (with N. Roymans). For the near future, I hope to get back to a long-term project on rituals of the life course in Rome and the northwestern provinces.

Since 2001 I have been serving on the editorial board of Archaeological Dialogues, with great pleasure.

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