Jorrit Kelder (Hoorn, 1980), is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian.
He is known especially for his work on Mycenaean political structures, and in particular his argument (first proposed in 2005 and elaborated on in a 2010 monograph) that the Mycenaean world was a single, unified state (rather than a patchwork of culturally similar, yet politically independent palace states, as had hitherto been proposed).
[1] Kelder’s professional career is in academic policy and administration, and he worked as a policy officer or adviser for various academic institutions, including the Netherlands Organisation to Scientific Research, the university of Amsterdam, and the university of Oxford.
For nearly 9 years, he worked as a Senior Grant Adviser for Leiden University, leaving his post in late 2023 to devote himself to research.
[8] Previously, he served as a member of the advisory committee of the Dutch Art and Heritage council, the Mondriaan Fonds.