Tamara Dijkstra

Tamara Dijkstra (1985, Leeuwarden) studied Classics (BA 2007, MA 2010 cum laude) and Archaeology (BA 2009 cum laude, MA 2012 cum laude) at the University of Groningen and obtained her PhD in 2019 at the same university with a thesis on burial culture and identity in Greco-Roman Antiquity (From Polis to Colonia: Death, Burial and Society in Hellenistic and Roman Patras). Between 2019 and 2022, she taught in the departments of Ancient History and Archaeology, and from 2022 to the present, she is a postdoctoral researcher within the MARE project, focusing on the funerary epigraphy of Roman Pisidia (Embodied Epitaphs). She has been affiliated with the Halos Archaeological Project in Thessaly since 2008, conducting research on Hellenistic houses and households. At the Fryske Akademy, where she has been working since 2025, she studies the burial culture and funerary heritage of Friesland and is the program coordinator for Digital Humanities.

CV updated on 2026-09-26.