Curriculum Vitae
Name: Dijkstra, Jitse H.F.
Address: Department of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Ottawa
70 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1N 6N5
tel.: + 1(613) 562 5800 (ext. 1325)
fax: + 1 (613) 562 5991
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Education and Positions Held
1995-1999 Classics, University of Groningen: MA, 1999
1997-2000 Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Groningen
2000-2004 Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen: PhD, 2005
2001- Member of the excavations at Aswan & Elephantine by the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research Cairo
2002 Assistant Researcher, Dutch-Flemish Institute, Cairo
2003 ASP Summer Institute for Papyrology, Yale University
2004-2005 Lecturer in Greek and Latin, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen
2005- Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
Academic Honours and Rewards
2002 Scholarship Stichting Philologisch Studiefonds
2003 Scholarship Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven
2004 Reward Dutch Research Institute for Classical Studies (OIKOS) for finishing dissertation within 4 years
2007 Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute, Leiden
Professional Offices and Service
Member editorial board Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie (TMA) (1998-1999);
President (2000-2003)
Organiser PhD-Masterclass ‘Portraying the Public’, Athens (2003)
Guest editor of Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 30 (2003), with the theme ‘Egyptian
Archaeology’
Organiser workshop ‘The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval
West’, Groningen, with Dr. M. van Dijk (2005)
Vice-President Ottawa Society, American Institute of Archaeology (2005-)
Member Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies, Ottawa (2005-)
University and Related Service
Member Education Committee Classics, Groningen (1996-1997); vice-President (1998)
PhD student member of the board of the national Dutch Research Institute for Classical
Studies (OIKOS: 2001-2003)
Member Committee Internationalisation, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies,
Groningen (2003-2004)
Member Committee Research, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen
(2003-2004)
Co-ordinator Top Master ‘Theology and Religious Studies: Symbols and Traditions’,
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen (2004)
Member Faculty Council, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa (2005-2006)
Member Ontario Graduate Scholarship Selection Panel (2005-2006)
Library representative Classics, Ottawa (2005-)
Memberships
Member Association Internationale de Papyrologues (AIP; 2001-)
Associate Member Dutch Research Institute for Classical Studies (OIKOS; 2005-)
Member American Institute of Archaeology (AIA; 2005-)
Member Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux (2005-)
Member Société des Études Anciennes du Québec (2005-)
Member Association pour l’Antiquité Tardive/Association for Late Antiquity
(2005-)
Member of the Classical Association of Canada (CAC; 2005-)
Member American Society of Papyrologists (ASP; 2007-)
Excavation Experience
Uffington Castle (England, 1995)
Halos (Greece, 1996)
Satricum (Italy, 1997)
Nijmegen (The Netherlands, 1998)
Francavilla Marittima (Italy, 2000)
Aswan & Elephantine (Egypt, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Public Lectures
XXIII. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie (Vienna, 2001)
Knowledge, Learning and Cultural Change (Groningen, 2001)
Seminar for Eastern Christianity (Leiden, 2002)
10th International Congress for Nubian Studies (Rome, 2002)
Dutch-Flemish Institute (Cairo, 2002)
Cultures of Conversion (Groningen, 2003)
XXIVth International Congress of Papyrology (Helsinki, 2004)
7th Egyptological Tempeltagung (Leuven, 2005)
Scholar’s Symposium of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Toronto,
2005)
American Institute of Archaeology/Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Ottawa, 2006)
Select Publications
Books
- Religious Encounters on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in Late Antiquity (AD 298-642) (PhD-thesis Groningen, 2005)
- (with M. van Dijk, eds), The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West (Leiden, 2006)
Articles
- ‘Horus on His Throne. The Holy Falcon of Philae in His Demonic Cage’, Göttinger Miszellen
189 (2002) 7-10
- ‘A World Full of the Word. The Biblical Learning of Dioscorus’, in A.A. MacDonald, M.W. Twomey, G.J. Reinink (eds), Learned Antiquity. Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West (Leuven, 2003) 135-46
- (with J. van der Vliet), ‘“In Year One of King Zachari”. Evidence of a New Nubian King from the Monastery of St. Simeon at Aswan’, Beiträge zur Sudanforschung 8 (2003) 31-9
- ‘Late Antique Inscriptions from the First Cataract Area Discovered and Rediscovered’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 33 (2003) 55-66
- ‘A Cult of Isis at Philae after Justinian? Reconsidering P.Cair.Masp. I 67004’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) 137-54
- (with K.A. Worp), ‘The Administrative Position of Omboi and Syene in Late Antiquity’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 155 (2006) 183-7
- (with C. von Pilgrim, K.-C. Bruhn, J. Wininger), ‘The Town of Syene. Preliminary Report on the 3rd and 4th Season in Aswan’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 62 (2006) 215-77
- ‘“Une foule immense de moines”. The Coptic Life of Aaron and the Early Bishops of Philae’, in B. Palme (ed.), Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses. Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001 (Vienna, 2007) 191-8