Aron Ouwerkerk (MA, MAEd) is interested in the reception of classical antiquity, gender history, textual criticism and intellectual history. His doctoral research focuses on women of the early modern period who communicated in Latin. This research is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Aron studied Classical Languages at the Academia Vivarium Novum (Frascati) and the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam. He completed his Research Master in Early Modern History at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 in 2022. For his Master's thesis on the learned Latinist Elizabeth Koolaart-Hoofman (1664-1736), he received both the Thijssen-Schoute thesis prize and the Johanna Naber Prize, for the best thesis in the field of early modern Dutch intellectual history and women's history.
In 2022, Aron worked as a researcher on the ERC project 鈥楽KILLNET鈥� (鈥淪haring Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks - The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society鈥�), for which he conducted research on early modern scholarly networks in Europe. From 2022 to 2024, he taught Classics at St. Bonifatius College in Utrecht.
Aron is on the editorial board of Jaarboek De Zeventiende Eeuw and KLEOS: Amsterdam Bulletin of Ancient Studies and Archeology. He has published in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Humanistica Lovaniensia, Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, and The Classical Review, among others. Also forthcoming is a chapter in An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Women 1350-1800 (Bloomsbury).