Prof. Dr. Constance von Rüden

Constance von Rüden is a professor of Pre- and Protohistory at Ruhr-University Bochum, with a special focus on Mediterranean prehistory and theory. Her previous professional experience includes postdoctoral positions at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens, the Centre for Mediterranean Studies in Bochum, and Heidelberg University. Additionally, she has held the position of Research Scholar at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles and served as a guest professor of Aegean Prehistory at the University of Bristol.

She has edited several volumes on Mediterranean archaeology and approaches to craft in archaeology, published the wall paintings from Tall Mishrife/Qatna with an investigation of their interregional relations (2011), and issued the book “Feasting, craft and depositional practice in Late Bronze Age Palaepaphos” together with Artemis Georgiou, Ariane Jacobs, and Paul Halstead. Since 2010, she has served as co-director of the Tell el-Dab’a wall painting project in the eastern Nile Delta in Egypt (alongside Manfred Bietak), and since 2017, she has also served as director of the “Making Landscape” project on the island of Sant’Antioco/Sardinia.