Ursula Rothe Explained

Ursula Rothe
Honorific Suffix:	PhD
Occupation:	Classicist
Alma Mater:	University of Manchester
Workplaces:	Open University, University of Sheffield, University of Edinburgh, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen

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

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'. 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.
• 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.
• Rothe, U. 2014. "Ethnicity in the Roman north-west", in McInerney, J. (ed.) A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Wiley-Blackwell.
• 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.

External links

• Classics Confidential: Exploring Roman Dress, with Ursula Rothe
• Doctor Toga website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Authors: Ursula Rothe . 2012 . . 2017-07-21.
2. Web site: Dr Ursula Rothe . . 2017-07-21.
3. Web site: OU People: Ursula Rothe . . 2017-07-20.
4. Web site: Archaeological Textiles Newsletter/Archaeological Textiles Review . 2017-07-21.
5. Web site: About Us - Archaeology Committee . Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies . 1 November 2019.
6. Web site: Why Hungary's PM should read up on his history before shunning Syrian refugees . Rothe, Ursula . 5 October 2015 . The Conversation . 2017-07-17.
7. Web site: What the Romans can teach us on immigration and integration . Rothe, Ursula . 18 February 2015 . The Conversation . 2017-07-17.
8. Web site: Dr. Toga . 2023-01-17 . www.drtoga.org.
9. Calling Dr Toga . 26 September 2019 . Scott Mills Daily . BBC Radio 1 . 24 September 2019 . 7:30.