dr. J. (Jeremia) Pelgrom

Jeremia Pelgrom is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. His research specializes in Roman Republican colonialism and imperialism, Roman rural history, and Hellenistic Italy. He completed his PhD with a thesis titled Colonial Landscapes: Demography, Settlement Organization, and the Impact of Colonies Founded by Rome (Leiden, 2012) and has since continued his research on early Roman colonization as co-director (with Tesse Stek) of the Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). From 2012 to 2018, he served as the Director of Ancient Studies at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, where he also co-directed the Mapping the Via Appia project (with Moorman and Mols), also NWO-funded. More recently, Pelgrom has developed a comparative research line that systematically examines colonial strategies across ancient empires and explores how ancient colonial models have influenced modern colonial practices and ideologies. He co-directs the Settler Colonial Paradigms research network (KNIR/UG), which investigates the long-term structures and ideological foundations of Western colonialism, focusing on the mechanisms that led to the eradication of indigenous communities and their enduring impact on the modern geopolitical order.