De Vries, Karen (Dr.)
Karen de Vries studied Archaeology and Greek and Latin Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen. In 2015, she obtained her research master’s degree ‘Art History and Archaeology’ cum laude at the University of Groningen. In the same year, she was awarded the W.A. van Es-prijs for her master thesis on Iron Age deposition practices on the Fries-Drents plateau. She was awarded a research grant from ARCHON/NWO for her PhD project titled Settling with the norm? Norm and variation in social groups and their material manifestations in (Roman) Iron Age (800 BC–AD 300) settlement sites of the northern Netherlands. From 2015 to 2021 she worked as a PhD candidate and as a lecturer at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen. In 2021, she started as Archaeological Researcher at ADC ArcheoProjecten.
de Vries, Nynke (MSc.)
Nynke de Vries studied Northwest European prehistory at the University of Groningen with main focus on the neolithic, mainly Funnelbeaker culture. After graduating in 2015 she now works in the field of archaeology in the Netherlands. After working for Transect bv and Salisbury bv as a project leader, as well as a period in Germany for Salisbury Gmbh, she is currently working at RAAP.
De Waal, Maaike S. (Dr.)
Maaike S. De Waal (PhD, Leiden University) is assistant professor and head of the Field Research and Education Centre at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (the Netherlands). She is also a partner in ARGEOgraph, an archaeological company specializing in geoinformatics in archaeology. Previously, she was lecturing in archaeology at the University of the West Indies (Barbados). Her research interests include archaeological heritage management, applied archaeology, landscape archaeology, and Caribbean archaeology and heritage. ‘Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: past, present and future research directions’ (De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K., Sidestone Press, 2019) is one of her recent publications.
Depaermentier, Margaux L. C. (Dr.)
Margaux L. C. Depaermentier’s academic career began with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Archaeology at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), followed by a Master of Arts degree in Early Medieval and Medieval Archaeology at the Alberts-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Germany). She obtained her PhD at the University of Basel (Switzerland), where her dissertation, “Late Antique and Early Medieval Social Structure in Basel from an Archaeological and Scientific Perspective,” advanced our understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval societies in this border region.
Dézsi, Attila (Dr.)
Attila Dézsi, an archaeologist, studied Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology in Hamburg and Vienna. Since 2020, he has been a research associate at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments at the Regional Council of Stuttgart, where he is involved in the inventory project “KZ-Komplex-Natzweiler: Denkmalfachliche Evaluierung der Außenlager und Arbeitsstätten in Baden-Württemberg.”
Additionally, he conducts research as a research associate at the University of Tübingen in the Collaborative Research Center 1070 “RessourcenKulturen” on the German immigrant colony Nueva Germania in 19th century Paraguay. In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Contemporary Archaeology at sites of protest, which included investigations of the anti-nuclear protest village “Republik Freies Wendland”. The dissertation was awarded three academic prizes: Studienpreis der VGH Stiftung für Archäologie 2024, the Deutschen Studienpreis für Archäologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, and the Barbara-Scholkmann-Förderpreis für Historische Archäologie.
His research focuses on the democratization of archaeology, methodology and theory of Historical Archaeology, as well as sites of Nazi terror and alternative movements.
Dijkstra, Menno (Dr.)
Menno Dijkstra (1971) is senior staff member of the ‘field projects department’ of the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre. He specializes in Medieval and Post-Medieval archaeology, especially the Early and High Medieval Period of north-west Europe (AD 450-1250). His PhD research is completed in 2011, containing a study of the Late Roman and Early Medieval habitation history of the estuaries of the Rhine and Meuse.
De Vries, Karen (Dr.)
Karen de Vries studied Archaeology and Greek and Latin Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen. In 2015, she obtained her research master’s degree ‘Art History and Archaeology’ cum laude at the University of Groningen. In the same year, she was awarded the W.A. van Es-prijs for her master thesis on Iron Age deposition practices on the Fries-Drents plateau. She was awarded a research grant from ARCHON/NWO for her PhD project titled Settling with the norm? Norm and variation in social groups and their material manifestations in (Roman) Iron Age (800 BC–AD 300) settlement sites of the northern Netherlands. From 2015 to 2021 she worked as a PhD candidate and as a lecturer at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen. In 2021, she started as Archaeological Researcher at ADC ArcheoProjecten.
de Vries, Nynke (MSc.)
Nynke de Vries studied Northwest European prehistory at the University of Groningen with main focus on the neolithic, mainly Funnelbeaker culture. After graduating in 2015 she now works in the field of archaeology in the Netherlands. After working for Transect bv and Salisbury bv as a project leader, as well as a period in Germany for Salisbury Gmbh, she is currently working at RAAP.
De Waal, Maaike S. (Dr.)
Maaike S. De Waal (PhD, Leiden University) is assistant professor and head of the Field Research and Education Centre at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (the Netherlands). She is also a partner in ARGEOgraph, an archaeological company specializing in geoinformatics in archaeology. Previously, she was lecturing in archaeology at the University of the West Indies (Barbados). Her research interests include archaeological heritage management, applied archaeology, landscape archaeology, and Caribbean archaeology and heritage. ‘Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: past, present and future research directions’ (De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K., Sidestone Press, 2019) is one of her recent publications.
Depaermentier, Margaux L. C. (Dr.)
Margaux L. C. Depaermentier’s academic career began with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Archaeology at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), followed by a Master of Arts degree in Early Medieval and Medieval Archaeology at the Alberts-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Germany). She obtained her PhD at the University of Basel (Switzerland), where her dissertation, “Late Antique and Early Medieval Social Structure in Basel from an Archaeological and Scientific Perspective,” advanced our understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval societies in this border region.
Dézsi, Attila (Dr.)
Attila Dézsi, an archaeologist, studied Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology in Hamburg and Vienna. Since 2020, he has been a research associate at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments at the Regional Council of Stuttgart, where he is involved in the inventory project “KZ-Komplex-Natzweiler: Denkmalfachliche Evaluierung der Außenlager und Arbeitsstätten in Baden-Württemberg.”
Additionally, he conducts research as a research associate at the University of Tübingen in the Collaborative Research Center 1070 “RessourcenKulturen” on the German immigrant colony Nueva Germania in 19th century Paraguay. In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Contemporary Archaeology at sites of protest, which included investigations of the anti-nuclear protest village “Republik Freies Wendland”. The dissertation was awarded three academic prizes: Studienpreis der VGH Stiftung für Archäologie 2024, the Deutschen Studienpreis für Archäologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, and the Barbara-Scholkmann-Förderpreis für Historische Archäologie.
His research focuses on the democratization of archaeology, methodology and theory of Historical Archaeology, as well as sites of Nazi terror and alternative movements.
Dijkstra, Menno (Dr.)
Menno Dijkstra (1971) is senior staff member of the ‘field projects department’ of the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre. He specializes in Medieval and Post-Medieval archaeology, especially the Early and High Medieval Period of north-west Europe (AD 450-1250). His PhD research is completed in 2011, containing a study of the Late Roman and Early Medieval habitation history of the estuaries of the Rhine and Meuse.
