Research Projects and International Collaboration

• European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek Sanctuaries (2020-present).
• Sacrality and the Greek Polis (three postdocs, one PhD, one guest researcher, RMA’s, 2019-present).
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Utrecht (Utrecht University Museum, Utrechts Universiteitsfonds, 2014-present).
• Co-director Thorikos Fieldwork Project, Lavrio, Attica (2011-present).

Editorial, Curatorial, Supervisory and Advisory Boards

• Founder and director of the Oikos Research Group Cultural Interactions in the Ancient World (2018-present).
• Editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean series at Brill Publishers, Leiden (2017-present).
• Director Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Netherlands (2016-present).
• Board member Platform Argos (2017-present).
• Member of the supervisory board of the Zenobia Foundation (2017-present).
• Advisory curator at University Museum Utrecht (Ancient Collection; 2014-2016).
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board (WAR) of the Dutch Institute at Athens (NIA; 2014-2018).
• Editor of Hermeneus (2012-2014).
• Board member Zenobia Foundation (2009 – 2015).

Archaeological Field Projects

• Co-director Thorikos Fieldwork Project, Attica, Greece (2011-present).
• Athenian Agora (American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 1998-2002).
• Ancient Corinth (2001).

Honors, Fellowships, Awards

• Marie Curie fellowship at Leicester University, funded by the M4Human program of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2012-2013).
• PhD fellow in the Vici project “Athenian citizenship” at Utrecht University, funded by NWO.
• Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) during the 2000/1 academic year, funded with a VSB grant.
• Cum laude honors at MA graduation Mediterranean Archaeology (2000).
• Paul V. Bacon Prize in Latin, awarded by Lawrence University (1994).

Conferences Organized

• CIAW/Oikos/Archon workshop Networking the Ancient World (May 1, 2020, online).
• CIAW/Oikos/Archon workshop Treading the Middle Ground (April 12, 2019, Amsterdam).
• Tenth annual congress of the Zenobia Foundation: Mohammed en het einde van de oudheid (2015).
• International conference: Empires of the Sea: the Power Structures of Maritime Networks (2015; proceedings published with Brill Publishers, Leiden).
• International conference: Feasting and Polis Institutions (Utrecht, 2014; proceedings published with Brill Publishers, Leiden).
• Sixth annual congress of the Zenobia foundation: Troje. De Stad. De Legende. De Oorlog (2012).

Key Lectures

• Between Polis and Ethnos: A Networked Approach to the Development of the Athenian Polis, Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period: The Spatial Roots of Politics and Society (Athens, 2020).
• Between Polis and Ethnos: Politics and Religious Identity in Early Iron Age Attica, Austrian Archaeological Institute (Vienna, 2019) .
• Drinking with the Gods: Some Implications of Wine Consumption in Greek Sanctuaries, Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries Conference (Athens, 2018).
• Between Sacred and Profane: Claiming the Countryside in Early Iron Age Attica, Georg-August-University of Göttingen (Göttingen, November 16, 2017).
• The Thorikos Intrasite Survey. A Glimpse from the Top. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology (San Francisco, January 4, 2016).
• Invention of Tradition at the Cult of Demeter in Eleusis: The Post-Bronze Age Remains and the Hymn to Demeter. Conference Beyond the Polis– Ritual Practices and the Construction of Social Identity in Early Greece (12th-6th Centuries B.C.) (Brussels, September 25, 2015).
• The Areopagus Oval Building and the Cult of the Dead? Regional Stories. Toward a New Perception of the Early Greek World (Volos, June 19, 2015).
• From Feast to Festival: Power Play at the diner table. Conference Feasting and Polis Institutions (Utrecht, 2014).
• What are the Salaminioi doing on the Acropolis? Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (Chicago, January 7, 2008).
• A Frontier Shrine on Mt. Parnes. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology (Chicago, January 4, 2008).