Berit Hildebrandt
I'm a Classical Archaeologist (M.A.) and Ancient Historian (PhD and German Habilitation). My research interests span social structures in the Greek Dark Ages (PhD), women's roles in classical Greek funerary cult (M.A.) and in recent years especially trade and exchange along the Silk Roads in Antiquity in a cross-cultural perspective. I am particularly interested in the material that gave the Roads their name: silk. I am currently preparing the publication of a book on the terminology, use, modes of exchange and production of silk in Antiquity, with a focus on the written sources (based on my German Habilitation). Also, I am looking into the role that freedmen played in the long-distance-trade and in shaping consumption of luxury goods in ancient Rome. In addition, I am interested in how we communicate and use history in public discourses and have worked with and published on learning through heritage at museums and other heritage institutions.
Winter semester 2022/23: Interim Professor (Professurvertretung), Ancient History, Humboldt University Berlin
Since April 2022: Researcher (PI on the German side) and project coordinator at Göttingen University in the collaboration project „Revealing the Israeli Silk Road“, jointly conducted with Prof Guy Bar Oz, PI at Haifa University, and Dr Orit Shamir, Israel Antiquities Authority. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/688720.html
Summer semester 2021 Interim professor (Professurvertretung), Ancient History, Bremen University
Since 2018 (ongoing) University of Hannover/Germany: External lecturer (Privatdozentin) for Ancient History.
2019-20 University of Copenhagen/Denmark, SAXO Institute: External lecturer in Classical Archaeology.
June 2019 Hoersholm Museum/Denmark: Project team member in museum education.
2016-2019 Nordic Centre for Heritage Learning and Creativity, connected to Jamtli Museum, Östersund/Sweden: Project manager and researcher.
May-June 2016 Haslev Museum/Denmark: Project team member in museum education.
2015-2016 University of Copenhagen, SAXO Institute: Guest Researcher and external lecturer.
Feb 2015 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen/Denmark: Visiting scholar.
2013 –2015 University of Copenhagen/Denmark, Danish National Research Foundations’ Centre for Textile Research: Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow / Associate Professor (on leave at University of Hannover). Research project “The Emperors’ New Clothes. Power Dressing in the Roman Empire from Augustus to Honorius”
2007 –2015 (regular end of non-permanent contract) University of Hannover/Germany: Senior researcher (German: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for Ancient History.
2011 – 2012 (on leave at University of Hannover) Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center: Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
March-June 2011 (on leave at University of Hannover) Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen: Postdoctoral Fellow.
2005–2007 University of Munich/Germany: Postdoctoral Fellow from the German Research Foundation in the Graduate School “Forms of Prestige in Cultures of the Ancient World”.
2005 University of Greifswald/Germany: External lecturer in Classical Archaeology.
Winter semester 2022/23: Interim Professor (Professurvertretung), Ancient History, Humboldt University Berlin
Since April 2022: Researcher (PI on the German side) and project coordinator at Göttingen University in the collaboration project „Revealing the Israeli Silk Road“, jointly conducted with Prof Guy Bar Oz, PI at Haifa University, and Dr Orit Shamir, Israel Antiquities Authority. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/688720.html
Summer semester 2021 Interim professor (Professurvertretung), Ancient History, Bremen University
Since 2018 (ongoing) University of Hannover/Germany: External lecturer (Privatdozentin) for Ancient History.
2019-20 University of Copenhagen/Denmark, SAXO Institute: External lecturer in Classical Archaeology.
June 2019 Hoersholm Museum/Denmark: Project team member in museum education.
2016-2019 Nordic Centre for Heritage Learning and Creativity, connected to Jamtli Museum, Östersund/Sweden: Project manager and researcher.
May-June 2016 Haslev Museum/Denmark: Project team member in museum education.
2015-2016 University of Copenhagen, SAXO Institute: Guest Researcher and external lecturer.
Feb 2015 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen/Denmark: Visiting scholar.
2013 –2015 University of Copenhagen/Denmark, Danish National Research Foundations’ Centre for Textile Research: Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow / Associate Professor (on leave at University of Hannover). Research project “The Emperors’ New Clothes. Power Dressing in the Roman Empire from Augustus to Honorius”
2007 –2015 (regular end of non-permanent contract) University of Hannover/Germany: Senior researcher (German: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for Ancient History.
2011 – 2012 (on leave at University of Hannover) Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center: Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
March-June 2011 (on leave at University of Hannover) Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen: Postdoctoral Fellow.
2005–2007 University of Munich/Germany: Postdoctoral Fellow from the German Research Foundation in the Graduate School “Forms of Prestige in Cultures of the Ancient World”.
2005 University of Greifswald/Germany: External lecturer in Classical Archaeology.
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I suggest a reconstruction of the garment through philological analyses of Honorius’ terminology, archaeological jewelry finds as well as late antique ways of depicting and representing emperors. I argue that the intricately combined materials like jewels, gold, purple and pearls with their different proveniences can be read as a political programme (though a merely wishful one) that aimed at the unity of the Eastern and Western part of the Empire in a historically challenging time.