Ursula Rothe

Ursula Rothe gained her doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2007 and has since worked at the University of Edinburgh, first as a teaching associate involved in project titled 'Dress and identity in the Danube provinces: ideal vs reality', then as a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow. After working at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Germany, in 2012 she moved to the Open University as the Baron Thyssen lecturer. Rothe has been a co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Archaeological Textiles Review since 2014.

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

• 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. 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. 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