Person
Researcher
- Classical archaeology and ancient history
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail lovisa.brannstedtklass.luse
Phone +46 46 222 69 20
Room LUX:A219
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I work as a researcher and associate professor (sw. docent) in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. In 2016, I defended my PhD thesis Femina princpes. Livia's position in the Roman state. It is a thorough study of the foundations of Livia's position as the first empress of Rome. The thesis was awarded with Hainska priset 2017. After having worked on the position of an empress, I was keen to find a way to study the opposite; female resistance to the imperial power, which led to the research project Roman Women on Trial, granted by the Swedish Research Council, and to an interest in legal history. In 2022 I received the Einar Hansen Prize for outstanding humanistic research.
My current project The animated nature, funded by RJ, approaches nature in the Roman world by looking at divination. The project is pursued in dialogue with the interdisciplinary paradigm of Environmental Humanities.
I have previously been director of Humtank and visiting researcher at Durham University, UK.
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My profile in Lund University research portalScientific advisor of the Nordic performing arts project Livia’s Room.
One of four coordinators of [HG] Humanioras gestaltningsformer, a seminar series on artistic and humanistic research in collaboration with Skissernas museum.
One of four coordinators of FokusRom, a collaborative project between LU and GU, and the disciplines of CAAH and Latin.
Member of the advisory group for Humanities in Transition, led by Linus Salö (SU) and funded by RJ.
Affiliated researcher at the Centre for the History of Knowledge (LU).
Member of Eugesta, the European Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity.
Selection of current board assignments:
- Member and secretary of the board of the Swedish Institute in Rome
- Representative of the HT Faculties in the steering group for Lund University’s Sustainability Forum
- Representative of the HT Faculties in the Swedish Research Council’s Electoral Assembly
I have previously served, among other roles, as a member of the board of Lund University and of the HT Faculties.
Researcher
- Classical archaeology and ancient history
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail lovisa.brannstedtklass.luse
Phone +46 46 222 69 20
Room LUX:A219
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30