Dr. Carol van Driel-Murray

Carol van Driel-Murray (1950) obtained her PhD in 1987 at Amsterdam University where she taught the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces till 2012, when she joined the staff of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University to teach the same subject till her retirement in 2015 and beyond. She has published extensively on Roman military leatherwork, Roman and medieval footwear and her research interests include gender in material culture, military communities and military equipment. She is also preparing the report on the excavations of the Uruk period site Jebel Aruda, Syria for publication.