Dr. Diederik Burgersdijk is an assistant professor in Classical Literature and Ancient History at Utrecht University, specifically in the Master's program in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. He is affiliated with the departments of TLC (Language, Literature, and Communication) and GKG (History and Art History). His research focuses on rhetoric and historiography in the later Roman Empire, with a special emphasis on the urban context. He also has a particular interest in classical education in the Netherlands, on which he regularly publishes. His publications include his co-edited work, Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire (Brill: Leiden/Boston 2018) and, also co-edited, a historical overview of the city of Constantinople, Constantinople Through the Ages (Brill/De Gruyter 2025). Amsterdam University Press published a book on the ancient city of Carthage and its subsequent reception in 2025: Carthago: ooit verwoest, nooit verdwenen (Zenobiareeks 10). In 2020, Athenaeum, Polak & Van Gennep (Amsterdam) published the first Dutch translation with text and notes of Cornelius Nepos's Lives under the title Macht en Moraal. In early 2022, the history of the Dutch grammar school, GYMNASIUM, Geschiedenis van een eliteschool, was published. The same publisher published Een opera voor Suriname (2024) and, in 2026, a history of classical Rome (Rome. Elementaire Deeltjes 87).

In 2026, Hugo Grotius's On Public Partnership with Unbelievers (De societatie publica cum infidelibus): Introduction, Transcription and English Translation (Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies 5) will be published by Brill/De Gruyter, in collaboration with Henk Nellen and Marc de Wilde. Burgersdijk received his doctorate in 2010 from the University of Amsterdam with his thesis on the Historia Augusta, a series of late antique imperial biographies. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Brill series "Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean," of the journal Rivista storica dell'antichità (Bologna), and of Talanta. Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historial Society. Burgersdijk chairs the BABESCH Foundation for the promotion of Mediterranean archaeology and is a visiting researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2026, he will serve as Professor Alma Mater at the University of Bologna.