Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

This homepage is part of a research focus on late antique art and archaeology withinat the Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Aarhus. Funding for the project “Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity” (2007-2010) was provided 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 that project can be found here.

Current members:
Birte Poulsen, Associate Professor
Troels Myrup Kristensen, Assistant Professor
Stine Birk, Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellow

Visitors:
Georgios Deligiannakis, Erasmus Lecturer (September 2012)
David Parrish, Visiting Professor (August-December 2009)
Janet Huskinson, Visiting Research Fellow (November 2009)
Lea Stirling, Visiting Professor (August-December 2008)
Nejib Ben Lazreg, Visiting Research Fellow (November 2008)
Ari Saastamoinen, Visiting Postdoc (November 2008)

Former members:
Niels Hannestad, Professor Emeritus
Hendrik Dey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2008-2009)

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