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Sissel Undheim

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Sissel Undheim (born 1974[1]) is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen. She is an expert on gender and sexuality in the late Roman period, New Age religion, and the didactics of religion.

Education

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Undheim received her PhD from the University of Bergen in 2011. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Sanctae virginitates: Sacred and Consecrated Virginities in Late Roman Antiquity.[2]

Career and research

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Undheim published a monograph with Routledge in 2018, Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity.[3] She edited a collection of translated texts on Roman religion (Romersk religion) for the Norwegian series Verdens Hellige Skrifter (Sacred Texts of the World), published in 2010.[4] With Marie von der Lippe, she edited the volume Religion i skolen: Didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget, published in 2017.[5]

Undheim was a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study at the University of Oslo, 2020–21, for the project 'Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries'.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Norsk Religionshistorisk Forening (NRF)". Brønnøysundregistrene. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Doctoral Thesis - Sanctae virginitates : sacred and consecrated virginities in Late Roman Antiquity - Sissel Undheim (1974-) 2011". bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  3. ^ "Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  4. ^ "Romersk religion - Sissel Undheim". Bokklubben (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  5. ^ "Religion i skolen". www.universitetsforlaget.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  6. ^ "Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries". CAS. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2022-09-08.