Bursalen Spring-Summer 2024/2025 Abigail Gabriella Verstraeten, MA Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: Finding the Bronzesmith: Determining the Presence of Specialists versus Generalists in Bronze Metallurgy during the Bronze Age Alexandra van Hoeck, BA MA student in Art History Titel onderzoek: Whores and witches: The representations of women in Italian Renaissance art Anne Wildschut, MA Art History Titel onderzoek: Defining and constructing ancient Etruria in the Renaissance: Etruscan art in Italian regional, local and noble selffashioning beyond the Court of Cosimo I Charlot Smid, MA PhD student in Art History Titel onderzoek: Re-shaping the Vatican Angelo Rocca and his circle restoring the papal authority under Sixtus V Eline Verburg, MA PhD student in Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: Etruscans for All: the reception and perception of the Etruscans in 18th- and 19th- century Northwestern Europe Eva van Kemenade, MA PhD student in History Titel onderzoek: The Politics of Ritual: Public Festivals in Post-Tridentine Bologna (1550-1700) Joelle Kraaijeveld, BA RMA student in History Titel onderzoek: The Reality of Rhetoric: Exploring Religious Violence in Late Antiquity Julie van Loon, BA MA student in Art History Titel onderzoek: The narrative power of objects in the museum space: The Liberation Museum in Rome and Italian post war memory narratives Louis Verreth, MA PhD student in Greek / Latin Languages & Culture Titel onderzoek: Playing with Ancient Pasts. Lorenzo de' Medici and Humanist Literature Matthias Lukkes, MA History Titel onderzoek: Revisiting the Invention of Africa: African alterity in Dutch culture in the long seventeenth century (1590-1720) Michele Valandro, MA PhD student in Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: Between two worlds. Institutional epigraphy as an anchor of legitimisation by provincial and local elites in Hispania and Africa Nicky Schreuder, MA PhD student in Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: Experiencing Pompeian Second-Style Paintings in a Globalising World Phaedra Criaco, MA PhD student in Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: The Development of Roads and Transport Infrastructure in the Hinterland of Rome Puck de Boer, MA PhD student in History Titel onderzoek: Trials of Honour. Masculinity, violence and emotions in the modern Italian military (1861-1919) Roberta Devoto, BA RMA student in Religious Diversity in a Globalised World Titel onderzoek: National Mistics. An inquiry into the sacralization of politics Rosa Bovenkerk, BA MA student in Middle Eastern Studies Titel onderzoek: Islamic Heritage Tourism and Halal tourism in Italy and Spain Sanne Hoekstra, BSc MA student in Archaeology and MsC in Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences Stephanie de Graaf, BA RMA student in History Titel onderzoek: Revealing layers: Digitizing photographic archives for gender and mobility insights Steven van Ens, MA PhD student in Archaeology / Ancient History Titel onderzoek: Economic geography in Rome's hinterland Ted van Aanholt, MA PhD student in History of Philosophy Titel onderzoek: Contesting Modernity: The Suppression of Atomism (1640 - 1695) Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues, MA Ted Meijer Prize Winner 2024 Titel onderzoek: Inventio: Bishops, Martyrs and the construction of the past (350-750AD)