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'''Astrid van Oyen''' is currently an assistant professor in Classics at [[Cornell University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2020-07-09|title=Astrid Van Oyen|url=https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/astrid-van-oyen|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Cornell Research|language=en}}</ref> She is a leading archaeologist studying the social, economic and cultural aspects of empire, rural economies, craft production, and storage in Italy and the western provinces.
'''Astrid van Oyen''' is currently professor of archaeology at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is a leading archaeologist studying the social, economic and cultural aspects of empire, rural economies, craft production, and storage in Italy and the western provinces.


== Education ==
== Education ==
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Van Oyen was a Junior Research Fellow at [[Homerton College, Cambridge|Homerton College]], University of Cambridge from 2013-2016.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Astrid Van Oyen {{!}} Homerton College|url=https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/people/AstridVanOyen|access-date=2021-08-27|website=www.homerton.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> In 2016 Van Oyen joined [[Cornell University]] as an Assistant Professor in Classics.<ref name=":0" /> In 2019, she was a External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Centre at [[Stanford University|Stanford]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cable|first=Robert|date=2019-03-12|title=Storage and Empire|url=https://shc.stanford.edu/news/stories/storage-and-empire|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Stanford Humanities|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
Van Oyen was a Junior Research Fellow at [[Homerton College, Cambridge|Homerton College]], University of Cambridge from 2013-2016.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Astrid Van Oyen {{!}} Homerton College|url=https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/people/AstridVanOyen|access-date=2021-08-27|website=www.homerton.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> In 2016 Van Oyen joined [[Cornell University]] as an Assistant Professor in Classics.<ref name=":0" /> In 2019, she was a External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Centre at [[Stanford University|Stanford]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cable|first=Robert|date=2019-03-12|title=Storage and Empire|url=https://shc.stanford.edu/news/stories/storage-and-empire|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Stanford Humanities|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />


Van Oyen has published a series of books. ''How Things Make History,'' published in 2016, traces the historical trajectories of tera sigillata pottery in the Roman empire, and was described as "a very welcome study opening up new approaches to the analysis of ancient ceramics, or material culture in general."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Leitch|first=Victoria|date=2018|title=A. VAN OYEN, HOW THINGS MAKE HISTORY: THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS TERRA SIGILLATA POTTERY (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 23). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 174, illus. isbn 9789462980549. €79.00.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0075435818000163/type/journal_article|journal=Journal of Roman Studies|language=en|volume=108|pages=246–247|doi=10.1017/S0075435818000163|issn=0075-4358}}</ref> In 2017, she co-edited ''Materialising Roman Histories''with Martin Pitts, exploring how historical narratives are constructed through artefacts, which was described as having "a coherence that one rarely finds in volumes resulting from seminars...".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eck|first=Caroline van|date=2018|title=Objects, Romans, materialities|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/objects-romans-materialities/31EBB5E037BE41C5D901C5CBBFA5A989|journal=Antiquity|language=en|volume=92|issue=364|pages=1115–1117|doi=10.15184/aqy.2018.130|issn=0003-598X|doi-access=free}}</ref> Her 2020 publication'' The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage'' examined the practice and implications of storage in the western Mediterranean and in a review Caroline Cheung described it as "a book that offers so much food for thought that will inspire new avenues of research for years to come."''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-07|title=The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family|url=https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/4345|access-date=2021-08-27|website=American Journal of Archaeology|language=en}}</ref>'' Conor Trainor in ''The Classical Review'' praised its accessible writing, despite a complex topic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Trainor|first=Conor P.|date=2021|title=ASPECTS OF STORAGE AT ROME - (A.) Van Oyen The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage. Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Pp. xviii + 284, ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-108-49553-0.|url=|journal=The Classical Review|language=en|volume=71|issue=1|pages=152–154|doi=10.1017/S0009840X20002085|issn=0009-840X}}</ref>
Van Oyen has published a series of books. ''How Things Make History,'' published in 2016, traces the historical trajectories of terra sigillata pottery in the Roman empire, and was described as "a very welcome study opening up new approaches to the analysis of ancient ceramics, or material culture in general."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Leitch|first=Victoria|date=2018|title=A. VAN OYEN, HOW THINGS MAKE HISTORY: THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS TERRA SIGILLATA POTTERY (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 23). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 174, illus. isbn 9789462980549. €79.00.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0075435818000163/type/journal_article|journal=Journal of Roman Studies|language=en|volume=108|pages=246–247|doi=10.1017/S0075435818000163|issn=0075-4358}}</ref> In 2017, she co-edited ''Materialising Roman Histories''with Martin Pitts, exploring how historical narratives are constructed through artefacts, which was described as having "a coherence that one rarely finds in volumes resulting from seminars...".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eck|first=Caroline van|date=2018|title=Objects, Romans, materialities|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/objects-romans-materialities/31EBB5E037BE41C5D901C5CBBFA5A989|journal=Antiquity|language=en|volume=92|issue=364|pages=1115–1117|doi=10.15184/aqy.2018.130|issn=0003-598X|doi-access=free}}</ref> Her 2020 publication'' The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage'' examined the practice and implications of storage in the western Mediterranean and in a review Caroline Cheung described it as "a book that offers so much food for thought that will inspire new avenues of research for years to come."''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-07|title=The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family|url=https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/4345|access-date=2021-08-27|website=American Journal of Archaeology|language=en}}</ref>'' Conor Trainor in ''The Classical Review'' praised its accessible writing, despite a complex topic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Trainor|first=Conor P.|date=2021|title=ASPECTS OF STORAGE AT ROME - (A.) Van Oyen The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage. Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Pp. xviii + 284, ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-108-49553-0.|url=|journal=The Classical Review|language=en|volume=71|issue=1|pages=152–154|doi=10.1017/S0009840X20002085|issn=0009-840X}}</ref>


Van Oyen co-directs the ''Marzuolo Archaeological Project'' with Gijs Tol and Rhodora Vennarucci, which is excavating the rural multi-craft site of Marzuolo, Tuscany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP) {{!}} CIAMS Cornell Arts & Sciences|url=https://archaeology.cornell.edu/marzuolo-archaeological-project-map|access-date=2021-08-27|website=archaeology.cornell.edu}}</ref>
Van Oyen co-directs the ''Marzuolo Archaeological Project'' with Gijs Tol and Rhodora Vennarucci, which is excavating the rural multi-craft site of Marzuolo, Tuscany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP) {{!}} CIAMS Cornell Arts & Sciences|url=https://archaeology.cornell.edu/marzuolo-archaeological-project-map|access-date=2021-08-27|website=archaeology.cornell.edu}}</ref>

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Astrid van Oyen is currently professor of archaeology at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is a leading archaeologist studying the social, economic and cultural aspects of empire, rural economies, craft production, and storage in Italy and the western provinces.

Education

Van Oyen gained her BA and MA in Archaeology at University of Leuven, Belgium.[1] She received a PhD in Classics in 2014 from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis titled 'Rethinking terra sigillata: an archaeological application of Actor-Network Theory', which was supervised by Martin Millett.[2][3]

Career

Van Oyen was a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge from 2013-2016.[1] In 2016 Van Oyen joined Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in Classics.[4] In 2019, she was a External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Centre at Stanford.[5][1]

Van Oyen has published a series of books. How Things Make History, published in 2016, traces the historical trajectories of terra sigillata pottery in the Roman empire, and was described as "a very welcome study opening up new approaches to the analysis of ancient ceramics, or material culture in general."[6] In 2017, she co-edited Materialising Roman Historieswith Martin Pitts, exploring how historical narratives are constructed through artefacts, which was described as having "a coherence that one rarely finds in volumes resulting from seminars...".[7] Her 2020 publication The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage examined the practice and implications of storage in the western Mediterranean and in a review Caroline Cheung described it as "a book that offers so much food for thought that will inspire new avenues of research for years to come."[8] Conor Trainor in The Classical Review praised its accessible writing, despite a complex topic.[9]

Van Oyen co-directs the Marzuolo Archaeological Project with Gijs Tol and Rhodora Vennarucci, which is excavating the rural multi-craft site of Marzuolo, Tuscany.[10]

In 2011, she was appointed as an associate editor of the Journal of Roman Archaeology.[11][12]

Selected publications

Books

Van Oyen, A. 2016. How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Van Oyen, A. and Pitts, M. 2016 (eds). Materialising Roman Histories. Oxford: Oxbow.

Van Oyen, A. 2020. The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles

Van Oyen, A. 2020. Innovation and investment in the Roman rural economy through the lens of Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy). Past & Present 248: 3-40.

Van Oyen, A. 2019. Rural time. World Archaeology 51(2): 191-207.

Van Oyen, A. 2016. Historicising material agency: from relations to relational constellations. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23: 354-378.

Van Oyen, A. 2015. The moral architecture of villa storage in Italy in the 1st c. BC. Journal of Roman Archaeology 28: 97-123.

Van Oyen, A. 2015. The Roman city as articulated through terra sigillata. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34: 279-299.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Astrid Van Oyen | Homerton College". www.homerton.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  2. ^ Van Oyen, Astrid (2014). Rethinking terra sigillata : an archaeological application of actor-network theory (Ph.D. thesis). University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Van Oyen, Astrid. How Things Make History : The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery. pp. x. ISBN 978-90-485-2993-3. OCLC 1248758854.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cable, Robert (2019-03-12). "Storage and Empire". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  6. ^ Leitch, Victoria (2018). "A. VAN OYEN, HOW THINGS MAKE HISTORY: THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS TERRA SIGILLATA POTTERY (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 23). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 174, illus. isbn 9789462980549. €79.00". Journal of Roman Studies. 108: 246–247. doi:10.1017/S0075435818000163. ISSN 0075-4358.
  7. ^ Eck, Caroline van (2018). "Objects, Romans, materialities". Antiquity. 92 (364): 1115–1117. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.130. ISSN 0003-598X.
  8. ^ "The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family". American Journal of Archaeology. 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  9. ^ Trainor, Conor P. (2021). "ASPECTS OF STORAGE AT ROME - (A.) Van Oyen The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage. Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Pp. xviii + 284, ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-108-49553-0". The Classical Review. 71 (1): 152–154. doi:10.1017/S0009840X20002085. ISSN 0009-840X.
  10. ^ "Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP) | CIAMS Cornell Arts & Sciences". archaeology.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  11. ^ Trimble, Jennifer; Russell, Ben; Oyen, Astrid Van; Leidwanger, Justin (2021). "Welcome from the new editors". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 34 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1017/S1047759421000398. ISSN 1047-7594.
  12. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
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