Else Roesdahl#
| Membership Number: | 6361 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor emerita (contract with and office at the Dept. of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University)
- 1996 - 2012 Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus University
- 1989 - 1996 Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus University
- 1989 - 1992 Academic Coordinator for the Council of Europe's and the Nordic Council of Ministers' Exhibition From Viking to Crusader. Scandinavia and Europe 800-1200 (Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen)
- 1989 - 1997, 2000 - 2003 Special Professor in Viking Studies, University of Nottingham (many visits)
- 1981 - 1989 Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus University
- 1970 - 1980 Research and teaching positions at the Department of Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus University
Fields of Scholarship
- Viking Age as an international phenomenon
- Danish Viking fortresses of the Trelleborg type
- Meaning of walrus ivory for the Norse settlement in Greenland
- Late pagan and early Christian burial customs and the conversion in Denmark
- Artefact studies; medieval vernacular culture and in particular housing culture
- Viking Age culture
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Erik Westerbyprisen
- 2012 Prize, Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien, Uppsala
- 2009 University of York Honorary Doctorate
- 2007 Knight of the Dannebrog Order, 1st degree
- 1995 Honorary Doctorate Trinity College Dublin
- 1993 Aarhus University Jubilæums Fond Prize
- 1992 Knight of the Dannebrog Order
- 1989 - 1997 Special Professor in Viking Studies, Nottingham University
- 1988 Søren Gyldendal Prisen
- 2000 - 2003 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1990
- Corr. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
- Honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin in 1995 and from the University of York in 2009
- Prizes include:
- 1988 The Gyldendal Prize 1988
- 1993 The Aarhus University Jubilee Foundation Prize
- 2012 Prize from the Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Academy, Uppsala 2012
- 2007 Knight of the Dannebrog Order 1992; Knight 1st degree of same Order
