Dr. R.m.r. Van Oosten

Biography

Roos van Oosten has been assistant professor in Medieval and Urban Archaeology at Leiden University since 2011. After receiving MAs from Leiden University in Archaeology (2003) and History (2006), she worked as a contract archaeologist for several years. She earned a PhD from the University of Groningen in the Department of History and has since published a monograph on sanitation management in Dutch urban towns in the late medieval and early modern period. Whilst working on her PhD, she accepted a tenure-track position in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, where she lectures on urban and medieval archaeology (BA and MA levels), is an internship coordinator (BA and MA levels) and supervises theses (BA and MA levels). Together with Richard Jansen, she is a contact person for the Leiden Interactie Netwerk. This network stems from the late Professor Willem Willem’s Verbond van Leiden and aims to enhance knowledge exchange and collaboration between academia and professional archaeologists.

Research Interest

Her main interest is in socio-economic topics such as sanitation management, urban hygiene infrastructure and the phenomena of the urban revolution. A secondary research focus is pre-industrial ceramic distribution patterns and long-term economic trends in the Low Countries.