Fellowships 2026

Daniel Knegt
Vanessa Steenbergen-Titchmarsh fellow for the Artis library

The vanished auroch 

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Răzvan-Iulian Rusu
Allard Pierson fellow for the Doopsgezinde Bibliotheek

A Mennonite in a Courtroom Drama: the trial against Govert Bidloo and his Beurze-stryd (1692)  

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Anne Versloot
Allard Pierson fellow for provenance research

Athanasios Rhousopoulos and the provenance of Greek antiquities 

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Anna Vigeland
Joop Frankvoort-van der Meer fellow for circus collections

Spectators’ memories of the circus 

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Olivia Schoenfeld
Friends of the Allard Pierson fellow for theater collections

Analysing Allard Pierson’s scenography collection  

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Soscha Monteiro
Reinjan Mulder fellow for literary collections

The spatial politics of nature writing 

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Ella Campbell
Euphemia fellow for fine prints before 1800

A systematic census of Rafaël’s Loggia di Leone X and Loggia di Psyche 

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Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Piet and Etty Sijpesteijn fellow for papyri in the Allard Pierson collection

Clues from the texts: mapping the provenance of the papyri collection  

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Victor Tiribás
Dr. Henriëtte Boas fellow for the collections of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana

Uncovering the Elogios (1656): martyrdom narratives in the Sephardic diaspora 

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Marit de Wit
Louise O. Fresco fellow for the history of food and nutrition

Nutritional science for public health

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Sushmeeta Ganesh
Allard Pierson fellow for cartography

Decolonizing cartographic heritage: a reinterpretation of the KNAG expedition collection with Indigenous and Maroon perspectives 

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