Dr. Astrid Van Oyen

Astrid Van Oyen is Professor in Archaeology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy and the Western provinces, with a particular interest in the socio-economic history of non-elites, rural economies, and human-thing relations. She is author of How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery (Amsterdam University Press, 2016) and The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and she co-directs the Marzuolo Archaeological Project.