Dr. Saskia Stevens is associate professor at the Department of Ancient History and Classical Civilization. She is specialised in the history and archaeology of the Roman Period. Her research focuses on the significance and physical appearance of boundaries in the Roman Empire. In 2017, she publised a monograph on the topic, City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy (Leuven: Peeters Publishers). Currently, she is the PI of a transdisciplinary project on the Roman frontier (limes) in the Netherlands: Constructing the Limes (2021-2026), financed by NWO as part of the Dutch National Research Agenda. In October 2023, Stevens received the CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award for the citizen science aspect of Constructing the Limes and her outstanding achievement in promoting open science attitude. Stevens is also leading the NWO project "Romans on the Rhine estuary" (2022-2024), as part of the call Archaeological Finds of (Inter)national Importance. Another strand of research focuses on Roman urbanism, architecture and urban living conditions and she has done extensive research in Rome, Ostia and Pompeii.
Contact
s.stevens@uu.nl
Grensland board game (C) IdeeHB
Citizen science project 'Heel Heerlen Graaft!'
Links
- Exhibition made by volunteers
- Saskia Stevens wins the CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award
- Citizen science project in Heerlen
- 'Heel Heerlen Graaft': exploring the Roman heritage together with Heerlen residents
- Unknown border characteristics (interview with NWO, May 2022))
- Voor én met het publiek onderzoek doen naar de Limes (March 2021)
- NWO-beurs voor archeologisch onderzoek naar Romeinen aan de Rijnmond (juni 2022)
- Studium Generale public lecture (December 2020)
- Constructing the Limes secures 4,1 million euro of funding from the Dutch Scientific Agenda (November 2020)
- International Workshop 'Muros et Moenia' (2020)
- Public Engagement Seed Fund awarded for the development of the educational board game GRENSLAND (borderland) (2020)
- Nomination Utrecht University Teacher Award (2018)
- Book announcement "City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy" (Leuven 2017)