How I got here: an interview with Dr. Hendrik Dey (IPCAA PhD, 2006)

by Jenny Kreiger

Dr. Hendrik Dey graduated from IPCAA in 2006. His dissertation, “The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855,” took him to Rome for several years of research and writing, and now he balances teaching and departmental service with an active field project in Caesarea Maritima (Israel). He has a new book out: The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which you can check out at the linkI interviewed him over e-mail about his time in IPCAA, what he does now, and his accomplishments in between.

JK: Please describe your current position. What is your institution like? What are your responsibilities?
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