dr. J. (Jeremia) Pelgrom

Jeremia Pelgrom is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. His research focuses on Roman Republican colonialism and imperialism, Roman rural history and Hellenistic Italy. He has written a PhD thesis titled Colonial Landscapes. Demography, Settlement Organization and Impact of Colonies founded by Rome (Leiden 2012) and continued his research on early Roman colonization in the context of the Early Roman Colonization project of which he was co-director (together with Tesse Stek) and which was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). From 2012 to 2018 he was the Director of Ancient Studies of the Royal Netherland Academy in Rome from where he also co-directed the Mapping the via Appia project (together with Moorman and Mols) also funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).