Kim Beerden
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. K. Beerden
- Telephone
- 071 5272761
- k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1989-4107
Kim Beerden is a university lecturer at the Institute for History. She specializes in Ancient History with a focus on Greco-Roman religions.
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Utrecht’s buried treasures: Roman boats along the old Rhine -
‘Materiality, Religion, and the Environment’: L*CeSAR’s second workshop -
Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Selth winners of first H.S. Versnel Prize -
'Materiality, Religion and the Senses': L*CeSAR organizes its first workshop -
Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions -
The A.G. Leventis Foundation supports Leiden ancient historians -
Why do we always have room for pudding? -
Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great' -
Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers -
Podcast tips for Pentecost -
Book presentation 'Coping with Versnel' -
Kim Beerden: 'The programme accreditation was good for the team spirit.' -
Low-key opening of the academic year symbolises new beginning -
‘Spying’ on talented lecturers -
Research Trainee Project on Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures launched -
Five History projects selected for Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017 -
Kim Beerden wins 2016 LUS Teaching Prize -
Teaching Prize nominations are now in -
Who is the best teacher? -
‘Peer review makes students more critical’ -
Ancient Greek decision making with help from the gods
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Kim Beerden is a university lecturer at the Institute for History. She specializes in Ancient History with a focus on Greco-Roman religions.
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Research
Dr. Kim Beerden is a historian of ancient mentalities, working in the field of religions in the Graeco-Roman world.
She has been employed as a university lecturer at Leiden University since 2013. This is also the year in which she received her PhD on the basis of her dissertation Worlds Full of Signs. Ancient Greek Divination in Context (published in a revised version at Brill, 2013; paperback 2021)
Kim Beerden publishes regularly on divination but also enjoys wider research interests into ancient religion and cultural history. She teaches on topics such as cultures of death in antiquity, life in Pompeii, literacy in ancient religions, and religion at the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. She won the LUS Teaching Prize for best lecturer at Leiden University in 2016; and led an NRO-funded project to diversify the ancient history first year curriculum.
Recently, she was Chair of Education of the Bachelor, Master and Research Master programme History (Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2022); became (in 2023) one of the editors of the Religions in the Graeco-Roman World series (Brill); and is co-founder and board member of the Leiden Center for Ancient Religions, which was established in 2024.
Fields of interest
- History of ancient mentalities
- Ancient religious and cultural history
- Greek and Roman religion and magic
- Ancient divination
- Epigraphy
- The history of epigraphy in The Netherlands
- Ancient religion and literacy
- Ancient environmental history
- Materiality
Books
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Redactielid Religions in the Graeco-Roman World