OIKOS Thesis Award

Every two years OIKOS presents two awards for the best Research Master's theses written in the previous two academic years. One award is offered to the best thesis in the disciplines of Greek, Latin and Ancient Philosophy, the other for the best thesis in the disciplines of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology.

How to nominate candidates

Each participating university may nominate one thesis per discipline (i.e. every university may nominate a maximum of five theses). The nominations will be assessed by an independent international jury and the theses must therefore be written in English. The winners will be announced in January and the awards will be presented on the subsequent annual OIKOS Day in May. The award consists of a prize of €500,-. In addition, the winners will be invited to present a brief summary of the topic of their dissertation during the OIKOS Day.

For the OIKOS Thesis Awards 2024, Research Master's theses completed between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2023 are eligible. Supervisors may nominate their candidates until 1 November 2023 by digitally sending the papers to oikos rug.nl, stating the name of the candidate and supervisor(s), the title of the thesis, and the institution.

Winners Thesis awards 2024

The Jury of the Thesis Awards 2024 (Peter Fibiger Bang, Professor of Roman History, The Saxo Institute University of Copenhagen, and Annette Harder, Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature, University of Groningen) had a difficult choice, for all nominations were excellent. They awarded the two awards for 2024 to:

Greek and Latin Language and literature: Charlotte van der Voort (UvA) wrote the thesis Speaking Silences. Silence Substituting Speech in the Later Platonic Tradition.

Ancient History and Archaeology: Kevin Hoogeveen (UvA) wrote the thesis Acta Alexandrinorum Revisited.

Laureates

2024 - Charlotte van der Voort (UL), Kevin Hoogeveen (UvA)
2022 - Jikke Koning (UL), Rik Jansen (UG)
2020 - Patriciate Kret (UL), Marije Derksen (RU), Caterina Fossi (VU)
2017 - Tom Grijspaardt (UL) & Leonie Henkes (UL)
2016 - Ivo Wolsing (ACASA), Kay Boers (UU) & Sam van Dijk (UG)
2015 - Rens de Hond (RU) & Martje de Vries (UL)