2004 MA (cum laude) in Classics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2002 Propaedeutics (cum laude) in Political Science, Leiden University, The
Netherlands
Saskia Hin received her MA in Classics at Leiden University, specializing in ancient history. She started her PhD project at the History department of Leiden University and is currently a visiting PhD student at Stanford. Her research focuses on ancient demography. She tries to approach questions concerning population development during the Late Roman Republic in Italy from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Research InterestsRoman demography; social history and social sciences; the Hellenistic ephebeia. PublicationsHin, S. (forthcoming) 'Counting Romans', Proceedings of the conference Peasants, citizens and soldiers: the social, economic and demographic background to the Gracchan land reforms (Leiden, 28-30 June 2007), Brill, LeidenHin, S. (2007) 'Class and society in the cities of the Greek East: education during the ephebeia', Ancient Society 37, p. 141-166.
