Ditte Kvist Johnson received her Master’s degree in Classical Archaeology from Aarhus University in June 2019. In her Master’s thesis, she examined the late Classical and Hellenistic honorific statues from the Athenian Agora by collecting and organizing the available, surviving material, published in the Agora-volumes, into a catalogue. She used this material to discuss how the statues from the Agora both physically and figuratively assisted in constructing space and how these functioned as social objects, using material culture and reception theories.

Ditte has worked as a student assistant for three years at UrbNet where she, amongst other things, administered and edited UrbNet’s webpages, managed travel expense claims, and collected material for and edited various project status reports, annual reports, and book chapters. As a Research assistant, Ditte will primarily work within the framework of the Palmyra Portrait Project in which she will collect and manage data sets consisting of tombs, portraits, and bones, intended for studies of Palmyrene demographics. Ditte will also continue some of her work with the administration at UrbNet.