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Emily Hemelrijk is a Dutch classicist, known for her work on Roman social and cultural history, in particular the history of women in ancient Rome. She is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Career
Hemelrijk studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam, receiving Masters degrees in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. She completed her PhD at Radboud University in 1998, with a thesis on the education of women in ancient Rome, which was published in 1999 as ''Matrona docta. Educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna''.

After taking up posts at VU Amsterdam, the University of Leiden, the University of Utrecht, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences, she was appointed as Professor in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam in 2007.

From 2007 to 2011, she was project leader for an NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) research project entitled Hidden lives – public personae: Women in the urban texture of the Roman Empire. This project focused on highlighting the roles of women in social, civic and public life throughout the Roman Empire, in order to provide new insights into both the public life of cities in the Roman Empire and the working of gender in Roman society. As a result of this project, Hemelrijk produced a monograph entitled ''Hidden Lives, Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West'' published in 2015 by OUP.

Until 2009, she was editor of the Dutch journal for classical studies, Lampas. She is currently 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 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg.

Select Bibliography
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. (1999) Matrona docta. Educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna, London and New York: Routledge (paperback edition 2004).