Ursula Rothe is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Roman dress.

Career

Ursula Rothe gained her doctorate from the

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in 2007 and then worked at the

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, first as a teaching associate, then as a

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postdoctoral research fellow with a project titled 'Dress and identity in the Danube provinces: ideal vs reality'. After working at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Germany, in 2012 she moved to the

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as the Baron Thyssen lecturer. Rothe has been a co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal ''

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'' since 2014. She is a member of the Archaeology Committee of the

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interest ...

. Rothe is also a contributor to

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news outlet and has written articles comparing modern immigration policies to the ancient world. Rothe has her own website 'Doctor Toga' which features information and advice regarding Roman dress, alongside information about her work and publications. In September 2019 Rothe featured on the Scott Mills radio show as 'Dr. Toga', advising the hosts on how to wear a

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to a

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Selected publications

*Rothe, U. 2009. ''Dress and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire'' (BAR International Series S2038). Oxford,

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. *Rothe, U. 2011. "Der Grabstein der Severina Nutrix aus Köln: eine neue Deutung", ''Germania'' 89, 191–214. *Rothe, U. 2012. "The “Third Way”: Treveran women's dress and the “Gallic Ensemble”", ''

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'' 116(2), 235-252. *Rothe, U. 2013. "Die norisch-pannonische Tracht: gab es sie wirklich?" in Grabherr, G. et al. (eds) ''Relations Abroad: Brooches and Other Elements of Dress'', Innsbruck, 33-48. *Rothe, U. 2013. "Dress in the middle Danube provinces: the garments, their origins and their distribution" in: ''Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts'' 81, 137-231. *Rothe, U. 2013. "Whose fashion? Men, women and Roman culture as reflected in dress in the cities of the Roman north-west", in Hemelrijk, Emily and Woolf, Greg (eds.) ''Women and the Roman City in the Latin West'' (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity). Brill. 243–268. *Rothe, U. 2014. "Ethnicity in the Roman north-west", in McInerney, J. (ed.) ''A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean'',

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. *Rothe, U. 2017. "Ethnicity", in Harlow, M. (ed.) ''A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion 1: Antiquity,'' London, 119-34. *Rothe, U. 2018. "Veiling in the northern Roman provinces", in Ivleva, T. et al. (eds.) ''Embracing the Provinces'', Oxford, Oxbow Books, 93-100. *Rothe, U. 2019. ''The Toga and Roman Identity.'' London: Bloomsbury Academic''.''

References

External links

Classics Confidential: Exploring Roman Dress, with Ursula RotheDoctor Toga website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rothe, Ursula Living people Academics of the Open University Australian archaeologists Australian women archaeologists Women classical scholars Year of birth missing (living people)