Hella Eckardt is an archaeologist who specialises in Roman archaeology and material culture and a professor at the

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. Since 2018 she has been the Editor of the journal ''

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''.

Career

Eckardt studied for a bachelor's degree at the

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, a master's degree at the

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, before completing her doctorate at the

. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2006. In 2018, Eckardt was won the Archaeologist of the Year award, organised by ''

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''. Eckardt is currently the Editor of the journal ''

'', published by

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. Eckardt gave the keynote speech at the

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2017, entitled "Roman Objects, Migrants and Identities in the Age of Brexit and trump". Her paper discussed how developing technologies, such as aDNA, that affect how we see geography and race in the past will influence modern perspectives on those topics.

Romans Revealed

Along with Mary Lewis and

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, Eckardt led a project researching the archaeological evidence for immigration in

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and how these people interacted. The project was funded by the

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(£337,000) and the results were used to inform displays at the

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and create educational resources for Key Stage 2 pupils. The team produced the 'Romans Revealed' website (romansrevealed.com) aimed at school children to give more information on Roman Britain, broadening the history taught in schools which usually focuses on men from Italy. The AHRC provided additional funding (62,000) while the Runnymede Trust also supported the project to help the website addressed what children wanted to learn about. Front Cover Image of Hella Eckardt (editor), Roman diasporas- archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman empire

Front Cover Image of Hella Eckardt (editor), Roman diasporas- archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman empire

Select bibliography

*Eckardt, H. and Walton, P. 2021. ''Bridge over troubled water: The Roman finds from the River Tees at Piercebridge in context'' (Britannia Monograph 34). London, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. *Eckardt, H. 2018. ''Writing and power in the Roman world: literacies and material culture''. Cambridge University Press, New York. *Eckardt, H. 2014. ''Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the north-western provinces''. Oxford University Press, Oxford. *Eckardt, H., Muldner, G. and Lewis, M. 2014. "People on the move in Roman Britain". ''

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'' 46 (4). pp. 534–550. *Eckardt, H. and Crummy, N. 2008. ''Styling the body in late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a contextual approach to toilet instruments'' (Instrumentum Monograph No. 36). Instrumentum, Montagnac.

References

External links

Roman Revealed website
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