Schultrich, Sebastian MA (MA)
Sebastian Schultrich obtained the master degree in 2017. For his master thesis ‘Das Jungneolithikum in Schlewsig-Holstein’ he received the archaeology award of the Archaeological Society Schleswig-Holstein (AGSH) in 2018. In 2018 he started as a PhD student at the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ at Kiel University with a project entitled ‘Maritime networks: Formation, development and significance of Neolithic networks in areas adjacent to the North Sea’.
Schumann, Robert (Dr.)
Robert Schumann is currently substitute professor at Heidelberg University. Prior to that, the worked and researched in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich after receiving his PhD from Munich in 2014. His research interests include Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, social archaeology and social organisation, contemporary archaeology and the history of archaeology.
Schuuring, A.E.I. MA (MA)
Ilse Schuuring studied archaeology at Leiden University and has worked in the archaeological and heritage sector since 2002. She is currently a heritage advisor and archaeologist at the Province of Gelderland. Previously, she worked as municipal archaeologist and heritage advisor for the Municipality of Tiel. Earlier in her career, she held various positions at VU-HBS Archaeology, the archaeological research unit of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her professional interests include heritage management, archaeological policy, public engagement, and the communication of archaeological knowledge to broader audiences. For this volume, she contributed to the editorial process, with a particular focus on clarity, readability, and the translation of specialist knowledge into accessible language.
Schwedler, Gerald (Prof. Dr.)
Gerald Schwedler studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, English and philosophy at the universities of Salzburg, Oxford, Rome and Heidelberg. In 2006, he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation “Herrschertreffen des Spätmittelalters”. He completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 2016 with a habilitation thesis titled: “Vergessen, Verändern, Verschweigen und damnatio memoriae im frühen Mittelalter”. He has been teaching at the Universities of Zurich, Constance and Heidelberg. Since 2018, he has been awarded full Professor of Late Medieval History and Economic and Social History at Kiel University.
Sciuto, Claudia (Dr.)
Claudia Sciuto is a research fellow in environmental archaeology at the University of Pisa, Italy. She works on the transformations of quarrying landscapes, looking at different environmental proxies. Her focus is on the relationships between geologies and human communities as manifested through the development of technical and social characters. Her work is transdisciplinary since it entails a methodological and theoretical reflection as well as morphological/archaeometric analysis of materials, and ethnographic fieldwork. She currently leads a research team for the project “Forsaken ecologies” which aims at investigating the metamorphoses of cultural landscapes in the Apuan Alps.
Scott-Smith, Giles (Prof. dr.)
Giles Scott-Smith holds the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. In 2017, as one of the organisers of the New Diplomatic History network (www.newdiplomatichistory.com), he became one of the founding editors of Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society published with Brill.
Segschneider, Martin (Dr.)
Dr. Martin Segschneider (1966) specialises in coastal and maritime archaeology and works as a senior researcher at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) in Wilhelmshaven/Germany. He has published various articles and books about the archaeology of the North Frisian Islands and Heligoland, including the topics of the historic role of Heligoland red flint and prehistoric seafaring.
Schultrich, Sebastian MA (MA)
Sebastian Schultrich obtained the master degree in 2017. For his master thesis ‘Das Jungneolithikum in Schlewsig-Holstein’ he received the archaeology award of the Archaeological Society Schleswig-Holstein (AGSH) in 2018. In 2018 he started as a PhD student at the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ at Kiel University with a project entitled ‘Maritime networks: Formation, development and significance of Neolithic networks in areas adjacent to the North Sea’.
Schumann, Robert (Dr.)
Robert Schumann is currently substitute professor at Heidelberg University. Prior to that, the worked and researched in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich after receiving his PhD from Munich in 2014. His research interests include Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, social archaeology and social organisation, contemporary archaeology and the history of archaeology.
Schuuring, A.E.I. MA (MA)
Ilse Schuuring studied archaeology at Leiden University and has worked in the archaeological and heritage sector since 2002. She is currently a heritage advisor and archaeologist at the Province of Gelderland. Previously, she worked as municipal archaeologist and heritage advisor for the Municipality of Tiel. Earlier in her career, she held various positions at VU-HBS Archaeology, the archaeological research unit of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her professional interests include heritage management, archaeological policy, public engagement, and the communication of archaeological knowledge to broader audiences. For this volume, she contributed to the editorial process, with a particular focus on clarity, readability, and the translation of specialist knowledge into accessible language.
Schwedler, Gerald (Prof. Dr.)
Gerald Schwedler studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, English and philosophy at the universities of Salzburg, Oxford, Rome and Heidelberg. In 2006, he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation “Herrschertreffen des Spätmittelalters”. He completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 2016 with a habilitation thesis titled: “Vergessen, Verändern, Verschweigen und damnatio memoriae im frühen Mittelalter”. He has been teaching at the Universities of Zurich, Constance and Heidelberg. Since 2018, he has been awarded full Professor of Late Medieval History and Economic and Social History at Kiel University.
Sciuto, Claudia (Dr.)
Claudia Sciuto is a research fellow in environmental archaeology at the University of Pisa, Italy. She works on the transformations of quarrying landscapes, looking at different environmental proxies. Her focus is on the relationships between geologies and human communities as manifested through the development of technical and social characters. Her work is transdisciplinary since it entails a methodological and theoretical reflection as well as morphological/archaeometric analysis of materials, and ethnographic fieldwork. She currently leads a research team for the project “Forsaken ecologies” which aims at investigating the metamorphoses of cultural landscapes in the Apuan Alps.
Scott-Smith, Giles (Prof. dr.)
Giles Scott-Smith holds the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. In 2017, as one of the organisers of the New Diplomatic History network (www.newdiplomatichistory.com), he became one of the founding editors of Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society published with Brill.
Segschneider, Martin (Dr.)
Dr. Martin Segschneider (1966) specialises in coastal and maritime archaeology and works as a senior researcher at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) in Wilhelmshaven/Germany. He has published various articles and books about the archaeology of the North Frisian Islands and Heligoland, including the topics of the historic role of Heligoland red flint and prehistoric seafaring.
