Archaeology Hall of Fame 2023

Published on 14 December 2023

Special achievements, grants and a top 10 ranking, a great calendar year for the Faculty of Archaeology! See the overview of 2023 in the hall of fame below.

Maia Casna received the Incentive Prize

Awards & Prizes

• Archaeologist Natalia Donner receives an award from Panamanian Embassy 

• Archaeologist Everest Gromoll wins LUF Thesis Prize with groundbreaking research on human responses to climatic shifts

• Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis 

• Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking 

• Osteoarchaeologist Maia Casna receives the NVFA Incentive Prize: ‘I try to push osteology into the public eye as much as I can’  

• Doggerland shortlisted for the annual EAA Book Prize

• DEN Award for Streaming the Past project: 'A truly innovative way to engage with new audiences'

• Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene

• Byvanck Professor Caroline Vout wins London Hellenic Prize for 2022 book 

The DEN Award was received by the project's founders Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos

Grants

• Archaeologist Sarah Schrader receives a grant to explore the evolution of stress 
• Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia

• Archaeologist Mink van IJzendoorn receives LUF grant to investigate late amphorae

• Vincent Niochet investigates intercultural connectivity in the deep past with an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant

• Investigating Caribbean migrations with a Vidi grant: ‘With isotope analysis we can look at individual behaviors and long term patterns’

• Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant 

• Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels grant 

• Leiden archaeologists receive a grant for research into Sint Servaaskerk Maastricht (in Dutch)

• Archaeologists investigate the origin of museum objects with MCS grant (in Dutch)

• Leiden archaeologist investigates washed up plastics with National Geographic grant