Dr Katharina Ulmschneider

Dr Katharina Ulmschneider, FSA
Senior Research Fellow & School of Archaeology Archivist
+44 (0)1865 278240
katharina.ulmschneider@worc.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests
•    Archaeological archives and the history of European archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries; Lantern slide and glass plates images: the evolution of landscapes, monuments and places; Early medieval archaeology of northwest Europe: economy, markets, towns, coinage, minting, and the development of settlement hierarchies; Metal-detector finds and archaeology: interpreting metal-detector finds and sites in the landscape.

 

Primary Geographical area
Northern Europe

 

Research Profile
Research Profile

Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology, Worcester College, Oxford
Associate Member of the Archives and Records Association
Member of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
Member of the Oxford University Heritage Network
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Blogs

Archaeology Archives Oxford

HEIR Oxford

Current Activities

•    Co-Director, HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource): interdisciplinary image database. Scanning, crowd-sourcing and re-photographing historic images of sites, monuments and landscapes all over the world to track global change. Based on Oxford University’s early lantern slide and glass plate collections. Funded by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the Fell Fund, and Citizen Science Alliance

•    Researcher: Scoping Survey of Visual and Material Cultures archives in the Humanities and Social Science Divisions. Funded by the Fell Fund.

•    Co-Director, Jacobsthal Project: investigating the life and work of German wartime refugee archaeologist Professor Paul Jacobsthal. Funded by the Heritage Lottery and Reva and David Logan Foundation.

Exhibitions

Dec 2018-2020 – Iannou Classics Centre Oxford – Monumental Change? Classical Sites
and Landscapes ‘Then’ and ‘Now’
Sep. 2017- Jan. 2018  - OCAT Centre, Beijing, China – Sites and Images - the Archaeological
Object, in collaboration with the University of Chicago USA
Nov. 2014 – Ashmoleum Museum Oxford - National Festival of the Humanities –
HEIR: From London to Constantinople
Jan-March 2012 – Oxford Town Hall - Persecution and Survival: a wartime refugee story:    Exhibition of archives, artefacts, film, and oral histories

Publications

  • Refugees, networks, politics, and east-west connections in Early Celtic art: Paul Jacobsthal’s ‘History of a Monster’ in context

    CRAWFORD, S, ULMSCHNEIDER, K
    Edited by:
    NIMURA, C, Chittock, H, HOMMEL, P, GOSDEN, C
    February 2020
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    Chapter
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    Art in the Eurasian Iron Age Context, Connections and Scale
    This volume explores Iron Age art at different scales and specifically considers the long-distance connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of seeing’ that link Celtic Art to other art traditions across northern Eurasia.
    Art

  • Gazing on the Past (and Being Photobombed by Children)

    Crawford, S, Ulmschneider, K
    June 2018
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    Chapter
    <p>Archaeologists often ignore the presence of children as a contributing factor in the archaeological record. However, recent analysis of a number of glass plate and film photographs taken by archaeologists at the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century shows that children were often incorporated into the photograph, either deliberately or inadvertently. These images provide not just a record of ancient sites and monuments, but also of the many local children who appear in the photographs. The children recorded by archaeologists offer an insight into children, their childhoods, their freedoms, and their place in society across a range of cultures in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, as well as raising questions about how archaeologists ‘saw’ the human subject in photographs where monuments and sites were the object.</p>

  • Oxford's ark: Second World War refugees in the arts and humanities

    CRAWFORD, SEE, ULMSCHNEIDER, K, ELSNER, J
    Edited by:
    CRAWFORD, S, ULMSCHNEIDER, K, ELSNER, J
    March 2017
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    Chapter
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    Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University , 1930-1945

  • Ark of Civilization Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945

    Crawford, S, Ulmschneider, K, Elsner, J
    March 2017
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    Book
    ... action are initiated in unrecorded histories and casual meetings, often facilitated by meals in college, which were, and remain, part of Oxford&#39;s social and academic fabric. In this volume, we explore the theme of Oxford as an ark of civilization,&nbsp;...

  • Archaeologists, Early Photography, and the Search for Time

    Ulmschneider, K, Crawford, S
    Edited by:
    Wu, H, Guo, W
    January 2017
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    Chapter
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    Sites and images: two research projects of Oxford University and the University of Chicago
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