People

EST Team

Troels Myrup Kristensen, Director of Research (Aarhus University)
Anna Collar, Assistant Professor (Aarhus University)
Louise Blanke, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Aarhus University)
Wiebke Friese, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Aarhus University)
Nicola Daumann, PhD Fellow (Aarhus University)
Sanne Hoffmann, PhD Fellow (Aarhus University and National Museum of Denmark)
Philip Kiernan, Senior Research Associate (University at Buffalo)
Søren Handberg, Senior Research Associate (Danish Institute at Athens)
Erin Warford, Research Associate (University at Buffalo)
Heather Hunter-Crawley, Research Associate (University of Bristol)
Hedvig von Ehrenheim, Senior Research Associate (Stockholm University)

Network partners

Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford University (Peter Stewart)
Centre for Late Antiquity, Oxford University (Bryan Ward-Perkins and Jas Elsner)
Universität Hamburg, Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des antiken Mittelmeerraumes (Inge Nielsen)
Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz, "Für Seelenheil und Lebensglück. Studien zum byzantinischen Pilgerwesen und seinen Wurzeln" (Ina Eichen et al.).
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities, the National Museum of Denmark (Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen and John Lund)
Mechanisms of cross-cultural interaction: Networks in the Roman Near East (NeRoNe), University of Bergen (Eivind Heldaas Seland)

Part of an international network

The project is part of an extensive international network, consisting of scholars that work within the fields of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Art History.

Revised 03.03.2026