Louise Blanke

Louise Blanke is Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD from University of Copenhagen in 2015 and has held postdoctoral positions at Aarhus, Oxford and Cambridge before joining Edinburgh.

She is specialised in the archaeology of late antiquity and the early middle ages in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Egypt and Jordan, looking in particular at the emergence of Christianity and Islam and their impact on economy, built environment and material culture in both urban and rural settings.