Ria Berg is Director of the

Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Rome) Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, also known as The Finnish Institute in Rome, is an academic institution that supports research in the humanities, particularly in relation to ancient history and Italy. The institute was inaugurated on 29 April 1954, ...

, also known as The Finnish Institute in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

. The Finnish Institute is an academic institution that supports research in the

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

, particularly in relation to

Ancient History Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

and

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. Berg is a Professor of Archaeology. She specialises in Pompeii, material domestic space and objects, Roman mirrors, and gender archaeology.

Education

Berg received her PhD from the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

in 2010. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, Il mundus muliebris ''nelle fonti latine e nei contesti pompeiani''.

Career

Berg was appointed as Director of the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae in August 2021. She was previously assistant (2001-5) and then deputy director (2012-16) of the Institute.

Bibliography

* ''Tangible Religion. Materiality of Domestic Cult Practices from Antiquity to Early Modern Era'', ed. by Ria Berg, Antonella Coralini, and Anu Kaisa Koponen (Quasar, 2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Ria Finnish academics Finnish women academics Women classical scholars Finnish classical scholars 21st-century archaeologists Historians of antiquity Year of birth missing (living people) Living people