Roman Shiroukhov

Historian, archaeologist, writer

PhD in history and archaeology, specialist in Baltic archaeology, science communicator, writer and music critic. Since 2003 he has taken part in archaeological research in the Baltic region and Eastern Europe, above all in historical Prussia and Western Lithuania. In 2006 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Kaliningrad State University, defending his diploma thesis “The Gods of the Balts in the Context of Indo-European Polytheism”.
He continued his studies in archaeology at Klaipėda University in 2007. In 2012 he defended his doctoral dissertation at Klaipėda University on contacts between the Prussians and the Curonians in the 11th–13th centuries (supervised by Prof. Vladas Žulkus). From 2008 to 2014 he worked at the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art, and from 2013 to 2017 on research projects at Klaipėda University and Vilnius University, where he studied the social, economic and cultural development of the Western Balts in the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. Since 2017 he has worked at research institutions in Northern Germany (Schleswig, Hamburg), taking part in and initiating international research projects devoted to innovative methods of archaeological chronology and to the study of Late Iron Age migrations in Eastern Europe. Together with German and Ukrainian colleagues, he currently leads an international project investigating an 11th-century colony of Prussians and other Western Balts in Kievan Rus’ (Ostriv). He teaches the course “Introduction to Baltic Archaeology” and is working on his habilitation research at the University of Hamburg. He is the author of numerous academic and popular science publications in Russian, English, Lithuanian, Polish and German.

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