Berit Hildebrandt

Berit Hildebrandt received an M.A. in Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, Media and Communication Studies and a Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Goettingen (Germany). She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Hannover (Germany). From 2013-2015, she will work at the University of Copenhagen with a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship on a project that aims to shed new light on the political and institutional history of the Roman Empire through the study of imperial dress and representation. In 2011-2012, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University with a project on “Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity, with a Focus on Silk.” She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the German National Academic Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research. Her research interests include economic and social history, gender history, and ancient medicine.