Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

This homepage is part of a new project on late antiquity based at the Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Aarhus. Funding comes primarily from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities with additional funds from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Aarhus, and the Aarhus University Research Foundation. A more detailed description of the scientific aims of the project can be found here.

Members of the project:
Niels Hannestad, Professor
Birte Poulsen, Associate Professor
Lea Stirling, Visiting Professor (August-December 2008)
David Parrish, Visiting Professor (August-December 2009)
Stine Birk, Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellow (2010-), PhD Student (2006-2009)
Hendrik Dey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2008-2009)
Troels Myrup Kristensen, PhD Student (2007-2009), Research Assistant (2009-2010), Assistant Professor (2010-)

Short-term guests of the project:
Janet Huskinson, Visiting Research Fellow (November 2009)
Nejib Ben Lazreg, Visiting Research Fellow (November 2008)
Ari Saastamoinen, Visiting Postdoc (November 2008)

Projects:
The House of Charidemos, Bodrum, Turkey (Birte Poulsen)
Studies in 3rd Century Sarcophagi (Stine Birk Toft)
Tradition and Continuity in Late Antique Sculpture (Niels Hannestad)
Late Antique Mosaics and Social Identity (Birte Poulsen)
Archaeologies of Response: Christian Destruction, Mutilation, and Transformation of ‘Pagan’ Sculpture (Troels Myrup Kristensen)