Ursula Rothe

Ursula Rothe is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Roman dress.^[1]

Ursula Rothe PhD
Occupation	Classicist
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Academic work
Institutions	Open University, University of Sheffield, University of Edinburgh, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen

Career

Ursula Rothe gained her doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2007 and then worked at the University of Edinburgh, first as a teaching associate,^[2] then as a Leverhulme postdoctoral research fellow with a project titled 'Dress and identity in the Danube provinces: ideal vs reality'.^[1] After working at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Germany, in 2012 she moved to the Open University as the Baron Thyssen lecturer.^[3] Rothe has been a co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Archaeological Textiles Review since 2014.^[4] She is a member of the Archaeology Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.^[5]

Rothe is also a contributor to The Conversation news outlet and has written articles comparing modern immigration policies to the ancient world.^[6][7]

Rothe has her own website 'Doctor Toga' which features information and advice regarding Roman dress, alongside information about her work and publications.^[8]

In September 2019 Rothe featured on the Scott Mills radio show as 'Dr. Toga', advising the hosts on how to wear a toga to a toga party.^[9]

Selected publications

• Rothe, U. 2009. Dress and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire (BAR International Series S2038). Oxford, Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-4073-0615-5
• Rothe, U. 2011. "Der Grabstein der Severina Nutrix aus Köln: eine neue Deutung", Germania 89, 191–214.
• Rothe, U. 2012. "The “Third Way”: Treveran women's dress and the “Gallic Ensemble”", American Journal of Archaeology 116(2), 235-252.
• Rothe, U. 2013. "Die norisch-pannonische Tracht: gab es sie wirklich?" in Grabherr, G. et al. (eds) Relations Abroad: Brooches and Other Elements of Dress, Innsbruck, 33-48.
• Rothe, U. 2013. "Dress in the middle Danube provinces: the garments, their origins and their distribution" in: Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 81, 137-231.
• Rothe, U. 2013. "Whose fashion? Men, women and Roman culture as reflected in dress in the cities of the Roman north-west", in Hemelrijk, Emily and Woolf, Greg (eds.) Women and the Roman City in the Latin West (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity). Brill. 243–268. ISBN 9789004255951
• Rothe, U. 2014. "Ethnicity in the Roman north-west", in McInerney, J. (ed.) A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Wiley-Blackwell.ISBN 9781444337341
• Rothe, U. 2017. "Ethnicity", in Harlow, M. (ed.) A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion 1: Antiquity, London, 119-34.
• Rothe, U. 2018. "Veiling in the northern Roman provinces", in Ivleva, T. et al. (eds.) Embracing the Provinces, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 93-100.
• Rothe, U. 2019. The Toga and Roman Identity. London: Bloomsbury Academic.