Network Members: Helle Hochscheid
Helle Hochscheid
Helle Hochscheid lectures at University College
Roosevelt, one of Utrecht University's Liberal Arts and Sciences colleges. Her research
takes a similarly broad approach to the role of craft and other occupations in
archaic and classical Greek societies. She is a guest researcher at Utrecht
University and member of the research group Sacrality and the Greek Polis. Her
book Networks of Stone (Peter Lang, 2015) investigates the networks of
crafts involved in the manufacture of sculpture in Athens in the sixth and
fifth centuries, with special attention for women or non-elite patrons of
sculpted monuments. With Ben Russell, she edited The Value of Making
(Brepols, 2021), in which the makers of craft objects across a wide range of
manufacturing specialisations take centre stage. Her recent work explores the
consequences of concentrated craft activity, by professional craftspeople or in
domestic settings, on the economies of ancient Greek cities, and whether the
formation of craft hubs in this context could be seen as an early form of
knowledge economy. If this is indeed the case, it changes the parameters of
societal influence of these craftspeople considerably, to include formally
disenfranchised groups like non-citizens and women.
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