Rossi, Corinna (Dr.)

Corinna Rossi (Napoli, Italy, 1968) obtained an MA in Architecture at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Egyptology under the supervision of Barry J. Kemp at Cambridge University (UK). She was Junior Reserach Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (UK) and is currently Associate Professor of Egyptology at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She was the Co-Director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey and is the Director of the Italian Mission to Umm al-Dabadib. She works as a consultant for Museo Egizio, Torino on the subjects of digitisation and digitalisation. She published extensively on the subject of architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt and on the Kharga Oasis in the Late Roman Period.

Rothstein, Mikael (Dr.)

Mikael Rothstein is Associate Professor of comparative religion at the University of Southern Denmark. He also holds the title of Visiting Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania and Research Professor at Museum Lolland-Falster. His research primarily deals with issues of new religions, religion in the Hellenistic-Roman ages, religion among hunter-gatherers and other indigenous peoples, and religion in the Mesolithic and Neolithic.
Mikael studied comparative religion at the university of Copenhagen, where he also finished his PhD in 1993. After many years as tenured there, he became Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark in 2013.

Roymans, Nico (Prof. (em.) dr.)

Nico Roymans is Emeritus Professor of West-European Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on Iron Age and Roman societies, with a special interest in the study of social identities, conflict archaeology, landscape archaeology, and Iron Age material culture. He has directed many large, externally funded research projects.

Rud, Vitalii (Dr.)

Vitalii Rud (1990) is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Eneolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology. He has worked there since he was awarded his Master’s degree in Ancient History and Archaeology of Ukraine in 2012 at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. In 2018 he was awarded a PhD for his thesis concerning Trypillia communities in the Dniester and Southern Bug interfluve in Ukraine in the beginning of IV mill. BC. Rud is also a researcher at the Department of Archaeology at Kyiv Borys Grinchenko University, and in 2018 he briefly worked at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany.

Rutter, Anja MA (MA)

Holding an MA in medieval history (Universität Bielefeld) and another in maritime archaeology (University of Southampton), Anja Rutter has been an interdisciplinary researcher from the outset. After gaining experience as a research diver and a field archaeologist, she is now writing her PhD on Bronze Age networks in the Levant at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Her main research focusses on networked identities, mental maps and the question of continuitiy in societies during and after upheaval and forced change.
As Anja Rutter also has long-time experience in museum didactics and citizen science, she has a special interest in making research accessible and understandable to the public and in the role the humanities can play in shaping our ideas of the future.

Sabbahy, Lisa (Prof. dr.)

Lisa Sabbahy studied at Bryn Mawr College, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Toronto. She is Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and Program Director of the MA in Egyptology and Coptology.