Jorrit Kelder | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam (Doctorandus) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD) |
Thesis | The Kingdom of Mycenae. A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Bronze Age Aegean and Classical Greek archaeology |
Institutions | Leiden University |
Jorrit Kelder (Hoorn,1980),is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian. He is known especially for his work on Mycenaean political structures,and in particular his argument (first proposed in 2005 and elaborated on in a 2010 monograph) that the Mycenaean world was a single,unified state (rather than a patchwork of culturally similar,yet politically independent palace states,as had hitherto been proposed). [1]
Kelder’s professional career is in academic policy and administration,and he worked as a policy officer or adviser for various academic institutions,including the Netherlands Organisation to Scientific Research,the university of Amsterdam,and the university of Oxford. For nearly 9 years,he worked as a Senior Grant Adviser for Leiden University,leaving his post in late 2023 to devote himself to research. [2] He has held,and continues to hold,various (honorary) affiliated positions. [3] He was a visiting professor in Greek Archaeology at Ghent University in the 2019-2020 academic year, [4] a guest researcher at Leiden University, [5] and an associate member of the sub-faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and a member of the common room of Wolfson College,Oxford. [6]
Kelder is a member of the Board of Luwian Studies, [7] a member of the supervisory board of the Teylers Museum [8] and serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Dutch Art and Heritage council,the Mondriaan Fonds. [9] He has been the recipient of various prestigious fellowships,including a fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and a Guest Scholarship at the J. Paul Getty Museum. [10]
Apart from his work on Mycenaean political structures,Kelder has published extensively on the Mycenaean world and its connections to contemporary civilisations,including Egypt and the Hittite Empire. [11] [12]
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