Fleur Kemmers

Fleur Kemmers (born 1977) is the Lichtenberg Professor for Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Education 

Kemmers undertook her undergraduate degree in archaeology in 1996 at the University of Amsterdam, and following her MA moved to Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000 to work on her PhD. Kemmers' doctoral work focused on Roman coins found at the legionary fortress of Nijmegen, examining the use and supply of coins in the Lower Rhine region in the first century AD. Kemmers completed her PhD in 2005 and the work was published as Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds from the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen in 2006.

Career 
During her PhD work at Radboud University Nijmegen, Kemmers worked as a Junior Researcher. In 2003, Kemmers also worked at the Royal Dutch Museum of Coins and Medals in Leiden, publishing coins from the auxiliary fort of Albaniana. Following her PhD, Kemmers continued to work at  Radboud University Nijmegen as a postdoctoral researcher working on Roman coins in the Severan period military, and as a university lecturer from 2008-9. In 2010, Kemmers joined the Classical Archaeology department at Goethe University Frankfurt as Lichtenberg Professor for Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World, becoming a full professor in 2016.

In Frankfurt, Kemmers has continued to work on Roman coins, including an exhibition of coins in the collection of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2014.

Between 2016-2019 Kemmers directed a project Syria Antiqua: objects and their stories in numismatics to digitise the Graeco-Roman coins of Syria in the collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, examining circulation, provenance, and imagery.

In 2017 Kemmers presented research co-led with Dr Katrin Westner on the analysis of Roman silver coins proving a change in metal composition and the spread of silver from Spain following the defeat of Hannibal.

Kemmers has also appeared as a specialist on documentaries concerning Roman history and archaeology.

Awards and honours 

 2005 Van-Es Prize for outstanding dissertation in Dutch Archaeology
 2006 Quadrennial award of the Koninklijk Belgisch Genootschap voor Numismatiek
 2007 X-ray Research Masterclass winner at the WISER (Women in Science, Education and Research) Festival, Maastricht

Publications 
 Kemmers, Fleur. Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds from the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 2007.
 Kemmers, F., & Myrberg, N. (2011). Rethinking numismatics. The archaeology of coins. Archaeological Dialogues, 18(1), 87-108.
 Kemmers, Fleur. Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds from the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 2007.
 Kemmers, Fleur. "Out of the shadow: Geta and Caracalla reconsidered." Repräsentationsformen in severischer Zeit 77 (2011): 34.

References 

Category:1977 births
Category:Dutch academics
Category:Dutch archaeologists
Category:Goethe University Frankfurt faculty
Category:Living people