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Pieter Houten
Honorary Research Fellow,
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Dr. Pieter Houten (Ancient History) obtained his BA (2011) and Research MA (2013) degrees in History at Utrecht University. His PhD-dissertation Civitates Hispaniae was carried out at Leiden University between 2013 and 2018 within the ERC-funded project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities'. After his doctoral studies he has been working as a lecturer for the History departments at Leiden and Utrecht University, in addition he taught Academic Skills at the Humanities faculty of Leiden University. In 2019 he joined the LatinNow project at the University of Nottingham and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford. The focus of his research within the LatinNow project was on Latinization during the Imperial period, especially on those who learn to speak and write Latin after the initial contact. During the pandemic he joined the ANR-DFG ATLAS project (2021-2024) at the Universität Hamburg, where he studied epigraphy and late antique urbanism in Southern Spain and Northern Tunisia. Currently he is a secondary school Classics teacher in Culemborg (The Netherlands). Within this role he continues to work on the outreach activities developed by the LatinNow team for schools.