Niels Bargfeldt - welcome back!

Niels Bargfeldt has written this presentation:

The overall focus of my research have been the constraints and the possibilities that society in the Roman world imposed on the individual. I have a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Aarhus University with a thesis titled Influential individuals: Legionary garrison communities on the northern Roman frontier. Among other topics, I have since then studied the material evidence for the families of Roman sailors, and the past three years I was part of a research group studying the Materiality of Incarceration in Mediterranean Antiquity – The Prison Project – at the Faculty of Theology at University of Copenhagen.

Throughout my career, I have taken part in several excavations and other field projects primarily in Italy, Greece, and Turkey where I have been responsible for 3D data-acquisition. Working from field data and archival records, I have extensive experience with recreating aspects of the ancient world in virtual environments for research endeavours and for public dissemination.

At present, I am a postdoctoral fellow at Classical Studies on the AUFF NOVA initiative Grounding Roman Sculpture in Pisidian Contexts: Digital Methods for Investigating Urban Experience and Resilience headed by PI Troels Myrup Kristensen in collaboration with Jane Fejfer from the University of Copenhagen.

I have taught courses on material culture and the relationship between texts and objects in research at classical studies at Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark, and University of Copenhagen.