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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Dr Stefan Krmnicek

Stefan KrmnicekResearch Associate, 'Tracing Networks' Project

MA (Vienna), MA (Vienna), PhD (Frankfurt)

Tel: 0116 252 2101

Email: sk423@le.ac.uk

Stefan studied Classical Archaeology and Numismatics in Vienna, Padova, Frankfurt and Cambridge. After receiving his Masters degrees at the University of Vienna he worked as a research assistant for the project ‘Fundmünzen der Antike’ of the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz. He received a PhD at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, where he was subsequently employed as ‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences. In March 2010 he joined the Tracing Networks programme as a research associate to work with Colin Haselgrove in the project ’Mint condition: coinage and the development of technological, economic and social networks in the Mediterranean’.

Research

Teaching

Stefan has contributed lectures and seminars to the following modules (Undergraduate Courses and MA Programme) since 2010:

  • AR7005 - ‘Theory and Method in Roman Era Studies'
  • AH2023 - ‘The Roman Principate’
  • AH2026 - 'Roman Imperialism and its Consequences'

Selected Recent Publications

Krmnicek, S. 2010. Münze und Geld im frührömischen Ostalpenraum: Studien zum Münzumlauf und zur Funktion von Münzgeld anhand der Funde und Befunde vom Magdalensberg. Kärntner Museumsschriften 80 = Archäologische Forschungen zu den Grabungen auf dem Magdalensberg 17. Klagenfurt: Verlag des Landesmuseums Kärnten.