Miguel John Versluys#
Membership Number: | 4603 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2017 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/miguel-john-versluys#tab-1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- From July 2016 Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology: Full Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology
- 2016 senior research fellow with the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Berlin)
- 2010 - 2016 Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology: Associate Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology
- 2011 guest professor at the Université Toulouse – Le Mirail/Jean Jaurès) (Toulouse)
- 2007 - 2010 Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology: Assistant Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology
- 2004 - 2007 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Archaeological Centre: post-doctoral research fellow, in combination with Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, lecturer
- 2002 - 2004 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Archaeological Centre: post-doctoral research fellow and acting project manager of the international Nemrud Dağ Project
- 2001 - 2002 Free University Amsterdam, Archaeology and Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology: fixed term lectureships
Fields of Scholarship
- Ancient Globalisation
- Cultural dynamics in Antiquity
- Egypt in the Roman world
- Archaeology of Eurasia in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (ca. 200 BC - AD 200)
- Human-thing entanglement
Honours and Awards
- 2017 GRAVITATION grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for the program Anchoring Innovation (one of the six main coordinators).
- 2016 invitation to the Getty Research Institute as residential fellow
- 2016 senior research fellow with the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Berlin)
- 2016 VICI grant from NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
- 2015 election as Editor of the Brill series Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
- 2012 essay award from the Zenobia Foundation
- 2011 guest professor at the Université Toulouse – Le Mirail/Jean Jaurès) (Toulouse)
- 2010 VIDI grant from NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)