Brigitte Röder (prehistoric)

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Brigitte Röder (* 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German-Swiss prehistorian and professor of prehistory at the University of Basel . Her focus is on prehistoric gender, social and childhood history, theory formation and method development as well as interactions between society and prehistoric archeology.

Scientific career

Brigitte Röder studied prehistory, ethnology and Roman provincial archeology in Freiburg and Aix-en-Provence from 1982 . In 1993 she received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the subject of springtime Latene ceramics from Breisgau . She then carried out various professional activities, including archaeological monument preservation in Germany, France and Switzerland. From 2000 to 2002 she was a research assistant in the Canton Archeology department in Zug . From 2002 to 2005 she worked as the national coordinator of the Swiss Graduate Schools Gender Studies at the University of Basel, of which she has been a member since 2005.

In 2004/05 she headed the interdisciplinary research project Theoretical and Methodological Approaches for Archaeological Childhood Research as part of the Swiss national research program Childhood, Youth and Intergenerational Relationships in Social Change .

From 2005 to 2012 she was a research professor at the Institute for Prehistoric and Scientific Archeology in Basel, responsible for the project New Foundations for Social History Research in Prehistoric Archeology . Under her leadership, the models of family and childhood in archaeological literature were critically analyzed and evaluated and the basis for the concept of an interdisciplinary archaeological research on childhood was developed.

From 2008 to 2012 she also represented the Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory. In 2011 she completed her habilitation. Brigitte Röder has been Professor (Extraordinaria) for Prehistory and Protohistory since August 2012 and heads the Department Prehistory and Protohistory and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Basel.

Brigitte Röder is the mother of one son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Spring Atène ceramics from Breisgau. Ethnoarchaeologically and scientifically analyzed. Darmstadt 1995.
  • with Juliane Hummel and Brigitta Kunz: Göttinnendämmerung. The matriarchy from an archaeological point of view. Munich 1996 and 2001.
  • with Renate Huber: Archeology in Steinhauses “Sennweid” (Canton Zug). Results of the investigations from 1942 to 2000. Basel 2007.
  • with Willemijn de Jong, Kurt W. Alt (Ed.): Age (n) think differently. Cultural and biological perspectives. (Böhlau series cultural history of medicine , volume 2) Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012.
  • Editor: Me man. You woman. Fixed roles since ancient times? Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7930-5114-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Basics for an archaeological research on childhood. Summary of the results
  2. ↑ Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello et al. (Ed.): Childhood and youth in Switzerland. Beltz Pedagogy, 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-25498-6 , pp. 25-26.
  3. ↑ New professor at the University of Basel.
  4. ↑ Bigitte Röder on the Integrative Prehistoric and Scientific Archeology (IPNA) website
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau