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I was born and educated in Denmark, where I completed my PhD on Pompeii. I came to Britain in 1991 to do postdoctoral research at Cambridge and UCL, and after a period of teaching at the University Leicester, I was appointed to a lectureship at King’s in 1999. In 2008 I became Professor of Roman History and since January 2010 I have been the Head of the Classics Department. 2005-8 I held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

• Roman social and political history
• Slavery and manumission
• Historiography
• Reception of antiquity
• Latin epigraphy

My research has focused on Roman social and political history, including late republican politics, Rome and Italy during the republic, local politics and social structure in Roman Italy, especially Pompeii and Ostia, and slavery and manumission. In addition I am interested in historiography, ancient as well as modern, the reception of antiquity, and in Latin epigraphy.

• H Mouritsen (2010) 'Lottery and elections: containing elite competition in Venice and Rome', in Competition in the Ancient World pp. 221-238
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2010)  'Remembering the Roman People. Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature' CLASSICAL REVIEW, 60 (2), pp. 522-524.
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• H Mouritsen (2010)  'The Power of the People: New Approaches to the Roman Constitution' Journal of History for the Public, 7, pp. 90-109.
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• H Mouritsen (2010) 'The families of Roman slaves and freedmen', in A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds pp. 130-144
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• H Mouritsen (2009) 'Modern nations and ancient models: Italy and Greece compared', , Ashgate pp. 43-49
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• H Mouritsen (2008)  'Senatus Populusque Romanus' GNOMON-KRITISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE KLASSISCHE ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFT, 80, pp. 280-282.
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• H Mouritsen (2008) 'The Gracchi, the Latins and the Italian allies', , pp. 471-483
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• H Mouritsen (2007)  'CIL X 1403: The album from Herculaneum and the nomenclature of the Latini Iuniani' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 161, pp. 288-290.
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• H Mouritsen (2007)  'The civitas sine suffragio: Ancient concepts and modern ideology' Historia-Zeitschrift Fur Alte Geschichte, 56 (2), pp. 141-158.
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2006)  'Honores Libertini: Augustales and Severi in Italy' Hephaistos, 24, pp. 237-248.
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• H Mouritsen (2005)  'Freedmen and decurions: Epitaphs and social history in imperial Italy' JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES, 95, pp. 38-63.
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2004)  'Freedmen and freeborn in the necropolis of imperial Ostia' Zeitschrift fuer papyrologie und epigraphik, 150, pp. 281-304.
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2004)  'Pits and Politics: interpreting colonial fora in republican Italy' Papers of the British School at Rome, 72, pp. 37-67.
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• Henrik Mouritsen Mouritsen (2001) 'Freedmen and the urban economy: Pompeii in the first century AD', , pp. 1-27
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• H Mouritsen (2001)  'Lintott, A., The Constitution of the Roman Republic' JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES, 91, 221
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2001) 'Ostie imperiale - une revolution sociale?', in Ostia. Port et porte de la Rome Antique pp. 30-35
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• Henrik Mouritsen (2001) Plebs and politics in the late Roman Republic Cambridge, U.K. ;; New York: Cambridge University Press [Authored Book in print]

Undergraduate

• 4AACAHC1 The Ancient City
• 4AACFY21Democracy & Oligarchy in the Ancient World
• 5AACAHC2 Writing History
• 5AACHI02 Roman History down to 31BC
• 5AACHI06 Roman Britain     
• 6AACHI09 Rome in the Age of Cicero     

Postgraduate

• 7AACM560 Pompeii & Herculaneum: History, Society & Afterlife   
• 7AACM731 Latin Epigraphy