Gdańsk Decorated Armour Database (DAD)

People

Lead Researcher

Dr Cezary Kucewicz

Cezary is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History at the University of Gdańsk and Bye-Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He completed a PhD at University College London in 2018 and specializes in the social, cultural and military history of Archaic Greece. He is the author of The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom (Bloomsbury 2021), which won the Early Career Researcher prize awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and co-editor of the Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx (Brill 2021). Cezary is a native of Gdańsk.

Cezary Kucewicz

Collaborator

Dr Caroline Musgrove

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Caroline is a Classics Education Specialist from the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in late antique cultural history in 2017. She works closely with schools, charities, universities and exam boards to produce accessible and inclusive Latin and ancient history materials for schools in the UK and North America. She has worked as a Classics outreach professional at the Cambridge School Classics Project, and an historical and educational consultant for the Classical Association and Cambridge University Press’ Brighter Thinking platform.

Caroline Musgrove

Collaborator

Dr Sara Rawlinson

Sara Rawlinson Photography

Sara is a contemporary photographer specialising in heritage photography and abstract fine art. She has had a camera in her hands most days since she was six years old. Following a decade in academic earth sciences and natural hazards, she has been a full-time photographer since 2013. Nearly forty of her photographs and several books have won or been shortlisted for international awards. Her works are held in private collections around the world. Read more at HeritagePhotographs.com and SaraRawlinson.com.

Sara Rawlinson

Collaborator

Steve K. Simons

Panoply Vase Animation Project

Steve is a graphic artist specialising in animations and illustrations of ancient artefacts. Based in the UK, he is the co-creator with Dr Sonya Nevin of the Panoply Vase Animation Project, making modern artworks from real antiquities (www.panoply.org.uk). Steve has created vase, fresco, and relief animations, short documentaries, and illustrations for numerous projects, including the ERC-funded Our Mythical Childhood (Poland), Locus Ludi (Switzerland), and Galateo (USA-Italy). Steve has illustrated several ancient-world-themed books published by Bloomsbury Academic and the University of Warsaw Press. Steve is a member of The Past for the Present: International Research and Educational Programme.
Steve K Simons

Collaborator

Błażej Zabłotny

Design and creation of a website