Since 2007, Emily Hemelrijk is professor of Ancient History at the UvA. Her research interests comprise the history of women and gender in Roman society, Roman family history and, more broadly, the social and cultural history of the Roman Principate. Emily Hemelrijk studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam with a Master in Ancient History and one in Classical Archaeology. Her PhD thesis at the Radboud University (Nijmegen): Matrona docta. Educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna was published by Routledge (1999 hb; 2004 pb). Before her appointment as a professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a lecurer, assistent-professor and associate professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, and at the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht. She also taught Ancient History, Archaeology and European History at the University of Professional Education in The Hague. Until 2009, she was editor of the Dutch periodical for classical studies Lampas and until 2017, she was a member of the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and of the international scientific committees of Eugesta, Journal on Gender studies in Antiquity and L'Antiquité Classique. In 2015 she has been awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Göteborg (Sweden).

In 2007, she started working on her NWO VIDI research-project Hidden lives - public personae. Women in the urban texture of the Roman Empire. This research project discusses women’s participation in civic life in the cities of Italy and the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire from the late first century BC to the late third century AD (roughly the Roman Principate). Excluding empresses and other women of the imperial family, it focusses on the civic roles of non-imperial women in Italian and provincial towns on the basis of a corpus of approximately 1,400 inscriptions and, to a lesser extent, honorific portrait statues. Separate chapters of her concluding monograph deal with women’s activities as priestesses, benefactresses, and patronesses or ‘mothers’ of cities and civic associations and with the public honour they received. In comparison to women’s virtual absence from public life in the city of Rome, inscriptions show that, in the local cities, women fulfilled important civic roles for which they were honoured with statues and inscriptions and, more rarely, public funerals. The concluding monograph Hidden lives, public personae. Women and civic life in the Roman West, which is published by Oxford University Press in 2015, discusses the reasons and motives for women’s civic participation, their spread (both regionally and over time) and numbers in comparison to those of their male counterparts. By presenting a fresh and detailed view of women’s civic roles in the towns outside Rome, the book aims to provide a better understanding of women’s integration into their communities and to contribute to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire.

She has recently completed a sourcebook of inscriptions: Women and Society in the Roman World. A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West, published by Cambridge University Press . She also participates in "Anchoring Innovation", the Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies, the Netherlands, http://www.ru.nl/oikos/anchoring-innovation/ In August 2020 she retired.

Selected Books

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2020) Women and Society in the Roman World. A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West, Cambridge University Press. ISBN online 9781316536087

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-and-society-in-the-roman-world/FF8F8BC865F3E681352B3DC234E382C0

By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the social lives, occupations, family belonging, mobility, ethnicity, religious affiliations, public honour and legal status of Roman women ranging from slaves and freedwomen to women of the elite and the imperial family, both in Rome and in Italian and provincial towns. They thus shed light on women who are largely overlooked by the literary sources. The wide range of inscriptions and graffiti included in this book show women participating not only in their families and households but also in the social and professional life of their cities. Moreover, they offer us a glimpse of women's own voices. Marital ideals and problems, love and hate, friendship, birth and bereavement, joy and hardship all figure in inscriptions, revealing some of the richness and variety of life in the ancient world.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2015) Hidden lives – public personae. Women and civic life in the Roman West, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hidden Lives – Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West discusses women’s participation in civic life in the cities of Italy and the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire from the late first century BC to the late third century AD (roughly the Roman Principate). Excluding empresses and other women of the imperial family, it focusses on the civic roles of non-imperial women in Italian and provincial towns on the basis of a corpus of approximately 1,400 inscriptions and, to a lesser extent, honorific portrait statues. Separate chapters deal with women’s activities as priestesses, benefactresses, and patronesses or ‘mothers’ of cities and civic associations and with the public honour they received. In comparison to women’s virtual absence from public life in the city of Rome, inscriptions show that, in the local cities, women fulfilled important civic roles for which they were honoured with statues and inscriptions and, more rarely, public funerals. The book discusses the reasons and motives for women’s civic participation, their spread (both regionally and over time) and numbers in comparison to those of their male counterparts. By presenting a fresh and detailed view of women’s civic roles in the towns outside Rome, the book aims to provide a better understanding of women’s integration into their communities and to contribute to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire.

Hemelrijk, E.A. and Woolf, G. (eds) (2013)  Women and the Roman City in the Latin West, Leiden and Boston: Brill (Mnemosyne Supplements, subseries  History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, vol. 360). The volume was selected for the ‘Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title award for 2014.

Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume – which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire – show, women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in urban economies, and a few were prominent public figures, celebrated for their generosity and for their priestly eminence, and commemorated with public statues and grand inscriptions. Drawing on archaeology and epigraphy, on law and art as well as ancient texts, this multidisciplinary study offers a new and more nuanced view of the gendering of civic life. It asks in how far the experience of women of the local cities in Italy and the provinces resembled that of women in the capital, how they were represented in sculptural art as well as in inscriptions and what kind of power or influence they exercised in the societies of the Latin West.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1999) Matrona docta. Educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna, Londen and New York: Routledge (paperback edition 2004).

Matrona Docta presents a study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235. It studies women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. It also examines the role of women as patronesses of literature, learning and Roman women's writing.

Selection of Publications

Books and edited volumes:

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2020) Women and Society in the Roman World. A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West, Cambridge University Press.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2015)  Hidden Lives, Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hemelrijk, E.A. and Woolf, G. (eds) (2013)  Women and the Roman City in the Latin West, Leiden and Boston: Brill (Mnemosyne Supplements, subseries  History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, vol. 360).

PLINIUS Mijn lieve Calpurnia. Romeinse vrouwenportretten, Amsterdam (2020): Athenaeum, vertaald en toegelicht door Vincent Hunink,  ingeleid door Emily Hemelrijk

Hemelrijk, E.A. (ed.) (2009)  Lampas special on ‘Romanisering’,  Lampas 42.3 (together with G. Boter).

Hemelrijk, E.A. (ed.) (2007)  Lampas special on ‘Antieke herinneringsplaatsen’,  Lampas40.4 (with G. Boter en R. Nauta).

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2005)  Lampas special on ‘Hellenisme’,  Lampas 38.3 (with G. Boter).

De Ligt, L., Hemelrijk, E.A. and Singor, H.S. (eds) (2004)  Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives (Proceedings of the fourth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire, Leiden, June 25-28, 2003), Amsterdam: Gieben.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (ed.) (2003)  Lampas special on ‘Griekse lyriek’,  Lampas 36.4.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (ed.) (2001)  Lampas special on ‘de  Laudatio Turiae’,   Lampas 34.1.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1999)  Matrona docta. Educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna, Londen and New York, 1999 (hb) and 2004 (pb): Routledge.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (ed.) (1998)  Lampas special on ‘antieke economie',   Lampas 31.4.

Selected articles:

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2020) ‘Op weg naar vrijheid en burgerschap. Beelden van vrouwelijke vrijgelatenen’, Lampas 53.3 (2020) 319-341.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2018) “Slaap je, Brutus?’ Graffiti en politiek in Rome en Pompeii’, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131.1 (2018)  35-50.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2016) ‘Women’s daily life in the Roman West’ in Budin, S. and Turfa, J.M. (eds)  Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 895-904.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2015) ‘The Education of Women in Ancient Rome’, in W. M. Bloomer (ed.)  A Companion to Ancient Education, London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 292-304.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2014) ‘Women and public space in the Latin West’, in Eck, W. and Funke, P. (eds),  Offentlichkeit – Monument – Text.  Akten des  XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, 27. – 31. Augusti MMXII, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 701-703.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2014) ‘Roman citizenship and the integration of women in the local towns of the Latin West’, in de Kleijn, G. and Benoist, S. (eds) (2014)  Integration in Rome and in the Roman World, Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Lille, June 23-25, 2011), Leiden, Boston: Brill (Impact of Empire vol. 17), pp. 147-160.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2013) ‘Female Munificence in the Cities of the Latin West’, in Hemelrijk and Woolf (2013) 65-84.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2013) ‘Inscribed in the city: how did women enter ‘written space’?’, in Laurence, R. and Sears, G. (eds) (2013)  Written Space in the Latin West: 200 BC to AD 300, London and New York: Continuum, pp. 135-151.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2012) ‘Fictive motherhood and female authority in Roman cities’, EuGeStA, Journal on Gender Studies in Antiquity 2: 201-220.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2012) ‘Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West’ in James, S.L. and Dillon, S. (eds) (2012)  A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, London: Blackwell, pp. 478-490.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2010) ‘Fictive kinship as a metaphor for women’s civic roles’,  Hermes138.4 (2010) 455 - 469.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2010) ‘Women’s Participation in Civic Life: Patronage and “Motherhood” of Roman Associations’ in Mustakallio, K. and Krötzl, C. (eds) (2010) De Amicitia: Friendship and Social Networks in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Rome (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae; AIRF 36) pp. 49-62.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2009) ‘Women and sacrifice in the Roman Empire’, in Hekster, O., Schmidt-Hofner, S. en Witschel, Ch. (eds) (2009)  Ritual Dynamics and  Religious Change in the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007), Leiden, Boston: Brill (Impact of Empire vol. 9), pp. 253-267.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2008) ‘Patronesses and “mothers” of Roman  collegia’,  Classical Antiquity 27.1 (2008) 115-162.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2007)  ‘Local empresses: priestesses of the imperial cult in the cities of the Latin West’,  Phoenix 61.3-4: 318-349.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2006)  ‘Priestesses of the imperial cult in the Latin West: benefactions and public honour’,  Antiquité Classique 75: 85-117.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2006) ‘Imperial priestesses: a preliminary survey’ in De Blois, L., Funke, P. en Hahn, J. (eds) (2006)  The impact of imperial Rome on religions, ritual and religious life in the Roman Empire, Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 179-193.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2005) ‘Octavian and the introduction of public statues for women in Rome’,  Athenaeum 93.1: 309-317.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2005) ‘Priestesses of the imperial cult in the Latin West: titles and function’,  Antiquité Classique 74: 137-170.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2004) ‘Patronage of cities: the role of women’ in De Ligt, L., Hemelrijk, E.A. and Singor, H.S. (eds) (2004)  Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives (Proceedings of the fourth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire, Leiden, June 25-28, 2003), Amsterdam: Gieben pp. 415-427.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2004) ‘City patronesses in the Roman Empire’,  Historia 53.2: 209-245.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2004) ‘Masculinity and femininity in the  Laudatio Turiae’,  Classical Quarterly 54.1: 185-197.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2002) ‘Ambiguity of status: educated women in the Roman élite’, in PRAKTIKA.  Proceedings of the 11th  international congress of the FIEC (Kavalla 24-30 August 1999), Athens, Vol. II pp. 473-486.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2001) ‘Literary patronage and the ambiguous social position of educated women in the Roman élite,’  The Journal of Classical Studies 9: 79-98.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2001) ‘Inleiding: de  Laudatio Turiae’, Lampas 34.1 (2001) 5-17.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (2001) ‘De  Laudatio Turiae. Grafschrift voor een uitzonderlijke vrouw?’ Lampas 34.1: 62-80.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1989-90) ‘A Homeless Billy Goat in Missouri’,  MUSE 23-4 (1989-90) 30-47 (together witht J.M. Hemelrijk).

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1987) ‘Women's demonstrations in republican Rome', in Blok. J. en Mason, P. (eds)  Sexual Asymmetry. Studies in Ancient Society, Amster­dam: Gieben, pp. 217-240.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1987) ‘A Group of provincial East-Greek Vases from South Western Asia Minor’,  BABesch 62 (1987) 33-57. 

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1986) ‘A hunting scene on a Fikellura oinochoe', in H.A.G. Brijder  et al. (eds),  Enthousiasmos, Essays on Greek and Related Pottery presented to J.M. Hemelrijk, Amsterdam 1986 (Allard Pierson Series, vol. 6) pp. 23-28.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1984) ‘Vrouwenprotestdemonstraties in Rome',  Lampas 17.1: 63-80.

Hemelrijk, E.A. (1984) ‘"Who knows not what monsters demented Egypt worships?" Opinions on Egyptian animal worship in antiquity as part of the ancient conception of Egypt’, in Temporini, H. and Haase, W. (eds) (1972- )  Auf­stieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung,  Berlijn en New York, deel 17.4 (1984) pp. 1852-2000 and 2337-2357 (with K.A.D. Smelik).

Reviews of:

‘Romeinse grafcultuur’, recensie van Barbara Borg, Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE, (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2019) TvG 132.4 (2019) 671-673.

‘Romeinse lichaamstaal’ recensie van Glenys Davies, Gender and Body Language in Roman Art (Cambridge University Press; New York, 2018) in TvG 132.2 (2019) 302-304.

Recensie van Navarro Caballero, Milagros. Perfectissima femina. Femmes de l'élite dans l'Hispanie romaine, 2 Vols. Scripta Antiqua, 101. Bordeaux, 2017 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.05.10 (4 pp.)

‘De antieke stad’; recensie van Arjan Zuiderhoek (2017) The Ancient City, Cambridge UP (Key Themes in Ancient History) in TvG 131.1 (2018) 168-170.

 ‘Bescheidenheid moet je doen’; recensie van Wilkinson, K. (2015) Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, in TvG 130.1 (2017) 110-112.

-‘Romeinse graffiti’; recensie van Milnor, K. (2014) Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii, Oxford en New York: Oxford University Press, in TvG 128.3 (2015) 483-484.

Levick, Barbara M. (2014)  Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age, Oxford: UP (Women in Antiquity) in  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.07.32 (4 pp.).

Gender in de oudheid’; Holmes, B. (2012)  Gender. Antiquity and its Legacy, Londen en New York: I.B. Taurus (Ancients and Moderns) en Foxhall, L. (2013)  Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge: UP (Key Themes in Ancient History) in  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 127.4 (2014) 703-704.

Langford, J. (2013)  Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in  Classical World 108.1 (2014) 142-143.

‘De Romeinse stad’; Ray Laurence, Simon Esmonde Cleary and Gareth Sears,  The City in the Roman West c. 250 BC – c. AD 250 (Cambridge UP 2011), in  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 125.2 (2012) 257-258.

Dasen, V. and Späth, Th. (eds) (2010)  Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture, Oxford: UP, in  Mnemosyne 65.3 (2012) 522-524.

‘De Romeinse identiteit’ recensie van Louise Revell,  Roman Imperialism and Local Identities, Cambridge UP: 2009,  in  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 124.1 (2011) 122-123.

R.R.R. Smith,  Aphrodisias II. Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Mainz: Von Zabern, 2006, in  BABesch 83 (2008) 195-196.

A. Alexandridis,  Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna, Mainz : Philipp von Zabern 2004,  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006 (BMCR, 2006-08-21)  bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu (7pp.); http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr.

Hoffmann, G. en Sartre-Fauriat, A. (eds.)  Les Pierres de l’Offrande autour de l’ Oeuvre de Christoph W. Clairmont, Kilchberg / Zürich : Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie, 2 vols., 2001 and 2003, in  BABesch 81 (2006) 233-235 (wih J.M. Hemelrijk).

P. Stewart,  Statues in Roman Society. Representation and Response. Oxford (Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation), University Press, 2003 in  Mnemosyne 59.4 (2006) 621-624.

K.M.D. Dunbabin,  The Roman Banquet. Images of Conviviality. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 in  Mnemosyne 59.3 (2006) 473-477.

Sharon L. James,  Learned girls and male persuasion. Gender and reading in Roman love elegy. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 2003 in  Antiquité Classique 74 (2005) 338-339.

Beth Severy,  Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire, New York and London, Routledge, 2003 in  Antiquité Classique 74 (2005) 537-539.

“Leven in het Romeinse gezin”; Cokayne, K. (2003)  Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome, Londen: Routledge, Dixon, S. (red.) (2001)  Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World, Londen: Routledge, Harlow, M. en Laurence, R. (2002)  Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome. A Life Course Approach, Londen: Routledge, Parkin, T. G., (2002)  Old Age in the Roman World: a cultural and social history, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP en Rawson, B. (2003)  Children and Childhood in Roman Italy, Oxford UP, in Lampas 37.4 (2004) 326-329.

“Wat is de positie van een ‘first lady’?” recensie van Barrett, Anthony A. (2002)  Livia. First Lady of Imperial Rome, Londen: Yale UP, in  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (2003) 416-18.

Diana E.E. Kleiner en Susan B. Matheson (eds) (2000)  I Claudia II. Women in Roman Art and Society, Austin: University of Texas Press, in  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001 (BMCR 2001.11.18)  bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu (5pp.); http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr.

A.M. Keith, 2000,  Engendering Rome. Women in Latin Epic, Cambridge, University Press (Roman literature and its contexts) in  Antiquité Classique 70 (2001) 138-9.

B. Patzek, 2000,  Quellen zur Geschichte der Frauen, Bd. I: Antike, Stuttgart, Philipp Reclam in  Antiquité Classique 70 (2001) 256.

Susan E. Wood , 1999,  Imperial Women.  A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C. - A.D. 68,Leiden: Brill (Mnemosyne, Supplementum 194), in  Mnemosyne 54. 2 (2001) 246-250.

Beryl Rawson and Paul Weaver (eds), 1997,  The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space, Canberra: Humanities Research Centre en Oxford: Clarendon Press (The OUP/HRC series) in  Antiquité Classique 69 (2000) 336-7.

Setälä, P. and Savunen, L. (eds.), 1999,  Female networks and the public sphere in Roman society, Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, Vol. 22) in  Bryn Mawr Classical Review (10-3-2000)  bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu (BMCR 00.03.11) 5pp. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr

Fantham, E.  et alii, 1995,  Women in the Classical World: Image and Text (Oxford: Oxford University Press), Hawley, R. en Levick, B. (eds), 1995,  Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (London: Routledge) en McAuslan, I. en Walcot, P. (eds), 1996,  Women in Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press,  Greece & Rome Studies 3) in  Lampas 31.4 (1998) 351-355.

Hawley, R. en Levick, B. (eds), 1995,  Women in Antiquity: New Assessments, London en New York, in  Antiquité Classique 67 (1998) 171-2.

Krause, J.-U., 1995,  Witwen und Waisen im Römischen Reich III: Rechtliche und soziale Stellung von Waisen, Stuttgart (HABES 18) en  idem, 1995,  Witwen und Waisen im Römischen Reich IV: Witwen und Waisen im frühen Christentum, Stuttgart (HABES 19) in  Antiquité Classique 66 (1997) 627-9.

Watson, P.A., 1995,  Ancient Stepmothers. Myth, Misogyny and Reality, Leiden, New York etc. (Mnemosyne Supplement 143) in  Antiquité Classique 65 (1996) 402.

Krause, J.-U., 1994,  Witwen und Waisen im römischen Reich I: Verwitwung und Wiederverheiratung, Stuttgart (HABES 16) en  idem, 1994,  Witwen und Waisen im römischen Reich II: Wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Stellung von Witwen, Stuttgart (HABES 17) in  Antiquité Classique 65 (1996) 508-511.

Vidén, G., 1993,  Women in Roman Literature. Attitudes of Authors under the Early Empire, Göteborg, in  Antiquité Classique 64 (1995) 410-11.

Duby, G. en Perrot, M. (red.), 1992,  Geschiedenis van de vrouw, deel 1:  Oudheid, in Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies nr. 56, jaargang 14.4 (1993) 478-48

Popularising:

- ‘Romeinse weldoensters’, in  Geschiedenis Magazine 49.6 september 2014, pp. 24-27

- ‘Spelen met identiteiten. Gebruik en betekenis van Romeinse en inheemse kleding’, in Hupperetz, W., Kaper, O.E., Naerebout, F. en Versluys, M.J. (2014)  Van Rome naar Romeins, Amsterdam Allard Pierson Museum, pp. 136-140.

- ‘Onzichtbare vrouwen in de Romeinse provincies?’ in  Satricum (nieuwsbrief van Vereniging van Vriende van Satricum en de Stichting Nederlands Studiecentrum voor Latium) 15.2 (2008) 13-19.

-  ‘Verborgen levens, publieke gezichten: vrouwen in de steden van Italië en de westelijke provincies van het Romeinse rijk’,  Historica 31.3 (oktober 2008) 15-20.

- Nieuwe  Romeinsen, oratie bij de aanvaarding van het hoogleraarschap Oude Geschiedenis aan de UvA, 29-5-2008, Amsterdam: Vossius Pers (2008); eveneens opgenomen in  Amphora 28.4 (2008) 8-13.

- ‘Romeins Afrika: een contradictio in terminis?’,  Aanzet 22.3 (2007) 5-7 en 53 (inleiding themanummer over Africa Romana).

- ‘Kuise  matrona of wulpse Venus? Portretbeelden van vrouwen in het westelijk deel van het Romeinse rijk’,  Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 34 (2005) 14-20.

- ‘Kind zijn in de Romeinse oudheid’,  Spiegel Historiael 39.5 (2004) 190-196.

- ‘Een onbekende Romeinse vrouw’,  Gymnasium 21.3 (2002) 8-9.

- ‘Lofrede voor ‘Turia’,  Groniek 157 (2002) 531-539.

- ‘De zingende Memnonkolos’,  Hermeneus 73.2 (2001) 166-173.

- ‘ Matrona docta: geleerde vrouwen in het antieke Rome',  Spiegel Historiael 35.1 (2000) 15-21.

- ‘Geleerde vrouwen in de Romeinse elite’,  Kunst en Wetenschap 9.1 (2000) 7-8.

- ‘Roem, roddel en reputatie: de Romeinse dichteres Sulpicia',  Hermeneus 72. 2 (2000) 76-79.

-  ‘Geleerde Romeinse vrouwen: een vergeten groep belicht',  Historica 21.4 (1998) 9-10.

-  ‘Geleerde vrouwen in de Romeinse elite (2de eeuw v. Chr – 235 na Chr.)’ in  NWO Geesteswetenschappen. Jaarverslag (1996)  pp. 93-96.

- ‘Vrouwen in de Romeinse maatschappij: ideaalbeelden, rolpatronen en roldoorbrekingen’,  Tijdschrift voor Oudheidstudies 2 (1989) 4-16.

- ‘De Romeinse keuken',  Spiegel Historiael  22. 7/8 (1987) 344-351.

- ‘Vrouwen in Rome',  Spiegel Historiael  20. 9 (1985) 373-380.

- ‘Vrouwen in Rome', in  Vrouwen in oude culturen (Studium Generale R.U. Utrecht 1984) 21-35.