The dynamics of life : demography and the history of Roman Italy (201 BC - AD 14)
Hin, S.C.
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Hin, S. C. (2009, May 14). The dynamics of life : demography and the history of Roman Italy (201 BC - AD 14). Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13797
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Saskia Hin was born June 19, 1980 in Amsterdam. After her graduation at the gymnasium (KSH) in Hoofddorp in 1998, she started studying Classics in Leiden, where she majored in Ancient History. Following her interest in political science, she made some excursions into the Political Science Department, where she acquired a propedeutics with distinction. In 2004, she graduated with distinction as an MA in Classics on a thesis which evaluated the role of the post-classical
‘ephebeia’ as a social and educational institution for teenage boys in the cities of the Greek East.
In 2004 also, she started her PhD at the Leiden Department of History and shifted her focus from the Greek East to the Roman West. Focusing on Roman demography, she spent part of her time as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Currently, she is working as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Demography in Germany where she continues her research into ancient demography.
