Lovisa Brännstedt

Lovisa Brännstedt

Researcher, PhD, Associate Professor

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Research

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.

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

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