Eleven fellowships were available. The selection committee chose the following fellows:
- Vanessa Steenbergen-Titchmarsh fellow for the Artis Library
Daniel Knegt - The vanishing auroch - Allard Pierson fellow for the Mennonite library
Răzvan-Iulian Rusu - A Mennonite in a Courtroom Drama: the trial against Govert Bidloo and his Beurze-stryd (1692) - Allard Pierson fellow for provenance research
Andrea Kieskamp - Biographical research on algal scientist Anna Weber-van Bosse - Dr Henriette Boas fellowship for the collections of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana
Victor Tiribás - Uncovering the Elogios (1656): martyrdom narratives in the Sephardic diaspora - Joop Frankvoort-van der Meer fellow for circus collections
Anne Vigeland - Spectators' memory of the circus - Friends of the Allard Pierson fellow for theater collections
Olivia Schoenfeld - Analysing Allard Pierson’s scenography collection - Reinjan Mulder fellow voor de literaire collecties
Soscha Monteiro - The spatial politics of nature writing - Louise O. Fresco fellow for the history of food and nutrition
Marit de Wit - Nutritional science for public health: domestic science cookbooks and the dissemination of scientific knowledge among women in the 19th and 20th centuries - Euphemia fellow for fine prints before 1800
Ella Campbell - A systematic census of Rafaël’s Loggia di Leone X and Loggia di Psyche - Piet and Etty Sijpesteijn fellow for papyri in the Allard Pierson collection
Efstathia Dionysopoulou - Clues from the texts: mapping the provenance of the papyri collection - Allard Pierson fellow for cartography
Sushmeeta Ganesh - Decolonizing cartographic heritage: a reinterpretation of the KNAG expedition collection with Indigenous and Maroon perspectives
You can find their abstracts hereFellowships 2026.