News | 19.12.2024

Fellows 2026 announced

Next year, the Allard Pierson's third cohort of fellows will start. With the fellowships, various researchers from home and abroad in different stages of their careers are given the opportunity to do research for one to three months within the extensive collections of the Allard Pierson - the collections of the University of Amsterdam.

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 here Fellowships 2026.