Who are we?
Kleos is run by an interdisciplinary editorial team of volunteer master students, PhDs and graduates of the Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (ACASA) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Each main field – classics, ancient history and archaeology – is represented by multiple editors.
alessio Galli (Archaeology)
Hi, I am Alessio and I am a PhD candidate in Classics (Archaeology) at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy). I hold a BA and a MA degree in Classical Archaeology from La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), after which I won a two-year scholarship at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, where I specialized in the Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean.
I have taken part in numerous excavation and survey campaigns in Italy (Agrigento, Palatine, Pyrgi, Dragona) and in Greece (Lemnos, Tenea, Megaris). My research interests include architectural decoration, ancient architecture, topography, and history of archaeology: I have contributed to the analysis of the Corinthian capitals of the Forum of Augustus in Rome and of the architectural elements of the Hierapolis theater (Phrygia), and I have studied the figure of Federico Halbherr. I am very excited to join KLEOS because I strongly value journals that provide young researchers with the chance to publish their work, as they play a key role in keeping our discipline current and open to fresh perspectives
Hi everyone, my name is Giulia and I am an Italian researcher in petrography applied to archaeology from the University of Pavia. I studied Classics for my BA in Pavia, and then decided to focus more on materials and Archaeology in my MA, that I also completed in Pavia. My research is centered on the analysis of archaeological materials from Mediterranean contexts, like glass and pottery, in the attempt to provide a better understanding of how ancient societies produced and traded objects. I am also very passionate about fieldwork in the Mediterranean and since 2019 I have participated in projects in Italy and Cyprus. I am eager to make a positive contribution to Kleos, and I also hope this experience will enhance my skills in editing and publishing.
Nicholas Aherne (archaeology/Ancient History)
Hello! I am studying a PhD at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and belong to the MARE Project (Mortuary Archaeology of the Roman East). In my PhD I am investigating the ritual function of sarcophagi of Roman-period Phoenicia (Lebanon). This means examining how the shape, material, iconography, and inscriptions of the sarcophagi represented the dead, consoled mourners, and shaped ritual practice. I previously studied in my homeland of England, specialising in the material and visual culture of the Graeco-Roman world (MSt – University of Oxford; BA – University of Warwick). More specifically, I have been interested in the religious and funerary art and architecture of the Hellenistic world and Roman (eastern) provinces, though I employ a contextual and interdisciplinary approach to my research. My teaching roles primarily focus on art, architecture, and archaeology of the Greek world (3200 BC–30 BC). I am excited to join the KLEOS Editorial Team, to contribute to their interdisciplinary network, develop my skills as an editor, and support early career scholars in sharing their research.
Hello! I’m Anne Sieberichs, a PhD candidate at Utrecht University. As part of the NWO-VIDI project ‘Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE,’ my research focuses on the role of letters and epistolary performance in shaping consensus during the Merovingian period. Previously, I completed a research master’s degree in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University. My work centered on female monastic rules in the Merovingian period, with a particular interest in the Latin terminology describing the enclosed spaces they inhabited. I also explored Aramaic Incantation Bowls, cornflake sized bowls in which the practitioners wrote down incantations often asking for protection of the household. Passionate about Late Antiquity and the early medieval world, I explore the transitions from ancient to Christian contexts and hope to contribute to Kleos and the fascinating Late Antique period.
Kevin Hoogeveen (ancient History)
My name is Kevin Hoogeveen and I am a PhD Candidate in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. My research, which is funded by NWO PGW 2024 and supervised by Dr. Sofie Remijsen and Prof. Dr. Daniëlle Slootjes, aims to establish how, by their migratory behaviour the rural population of late-antique Egypt co-shaped economic and societal change. I have studied Ancient History at the universities of Leiden (BA, 2021) and Amsterdam (MA (research), 2023). My areas of expertise are: Roman Egypt, Greek papyrology, migration in and economy of the late-antique Mediterranean, fiscality, rural history, and Roman law.
Aron Ouwerkerk (Classics)
My name is Aron Ouwerkerk. I teach Ancient Greek and Latin at a high school in Utrecht and do part-time work as a proofreader and translator of postclassical Latin texts. I have studied at the Accademia Vivarium Novum (Frascati, Italy) and completed my Bachelor’s in Classics at the University of Amsterdam. After my Bachelor’s, I obtained my Master’s degree in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University, specializing in the intellectual history and Neo-Latin literature of the early modern Low Countries. My research is primarily focused on the lives and works of women authors who wrote in Latin. I thoroughly enjoy reading, studying, and writing about the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in the postclassical world – a fascinating field in which much remains to be explored. I hope that my passion for Classics and Reception Studies will fruitfully contribute to the future work of emerging scholars.
Lorenzo Iuliano (Classics)
Hi! My name is Lorenzo and I am a Phd student at Durham University. Before coming to the United Kingdom, I received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Classics at Pavia University (Italy) and a master’s degree in Humanities at IUSS (Italy). At Durham I am investigating how Empedocles, a pre-socratic philosopher who wrote an hexametric poem in the V century BCE, influenced certain aspects of Latin epic and why his style of poetry had such an impact. This project fits in my general interest for ancient cosmology which has also lead me to study other philosophers, such as Parmenides and Xenophanes. I am really excited to join the Kleos editorial board and I am looking forward to reading innovative articles on the ancient world.
Hello, my name is Marije Derksen and I am a PhD candidate in Greek literature, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen. In my research, I am especially interested in questions of gender and sexuality. I am currently working on the characterization of women in Hellenistic poetry, as a part of the Anchoring Innovation research program. Other fields that I am interested in include (provincial) archaeology and its history in politics, as well as papyrology and Graeco-Roman Egypt.
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