Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, Hendrik Dey received his Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan in 2006, and joined the Hunter College faculty in August, 2010. He held residential fellowships at the American Academy in Rome (2005-07), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Air and Space Museum, DC (2009-10), and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC (2016-17). Dey currently serves as Associate Editor for Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and sits on the editorial board of Speculum (2017-21). He is specialized in Architecture and Urbanism in Europe and the Mediterranean basin between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Among his publications, his books include: The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855 (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Western monasticism ante litteram. The spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (Brepols Press, 2011) ; The Afterlife of the Roman City. Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Fifty Early Medieval Things. Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2018). With The Making Of Medieval Rome Hendrik Dey wins the Bridge Book Award 2022 for the American Non Fiction category.