Anique Hamelink is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Her project "Dress, gender and cultural identity in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire" is part of the Anchoring Innovation project of the national research school OIKOS. The project investigates how people perceived, shaped and presented their ethnic, cultural and gender identity through dress in the changing world of the Roman provinces of Britannia, Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior in the period from 150 BC and AD 400 .