Dr Katharina Ulmschneider FSA
Senior Research Fellow
School of Archaeology Archivist
Education
DPhil (Oxford)
Dr Katharina Ulmschneider is a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology at Worcester College Oxford, acting archivist at the School of Archaeology, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and an Associate Member of the Society of Archivists. She has published widely on archaeological refugee scholars, medieval archaeology and economy, and on the impact of metal-detecting in archaeology. Her co-edited books Markets in Early Medieval Europe won the British Archaeology Book award in 2004, and Celtic Art in Europe was shortlisted Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2016. She is Director of the Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR), an interdisciplinary photographic database set up to rescue endangered historic image collections and make them available to researchers and the public for free. She is currently finishing a book on Second World War refugee archaeologist Prof. Paul Jacobsthal.
Selected books:
- Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 (co-edited), 2017.
- Celtic Art in Europe: Making Connections (co-edited), 2014.
- Persecution and survival: the Paul Jacobsthal story (co-authored), 2012.
- Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and Productive Sites, 650-850 (co-edited), 2003 reprint 2019.
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