Curriculum vitae
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
BA, MA, Ph.D. Cantab.
University of Virginia, Lindner Center for Art History
Fayerweather Hall, PO BOX 400130
Charlottesville VA 22903
Tel.: 434-9824717; Fax.: 434-9243647
Email: [email protected]
Updated 7/9/14
Education
1998-2004
1997-1998
1992-1997
University of Cambridge, U.K., Faculty of Classics and Christ’s College; Ph.D. in Greek
Archaeology (Levy-Plumb Scholarship, Christ’s College). Dissertation: Value and values in a
Mycenaean society: production and consumption of commodities in Late Bronze Age East
Boeotia.
University of Durham, U.K., Department of Classics; M.A. in Greek Archaeology
(departmental bursary). Dissertation: The 'House of Kadmos' at Mycenaean Thebes, Greece: a
preliminary re-examination of the architecture.
University of Athens, Greece, Department of History, Art History and Archaeology; B.A. in
Archaeology and Art History (magna cum laude).
Appointments
20102006-2010
2006-2008
2002-2006
Lecturer, Aegean and Near Eastern archaeology, McIntire Department of Art, University of
Virginia.
Visiting assistant professor, Aegean and Near Eastern archaeology, McIntire Department of
Art, University of Virginia.
Assistant director for research, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia.
Visiting scholar, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia.
Fellowships
2014
2009-2010
2008-2009
2002-2006
Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures fellowship, University of Virginia.
SHANTI cohorts program fellowship, University of Virginia.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 12-month faculty fellowship.
Network associate fellowship, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia.
Publications
Books
Edited volumes
(ed.), Public Archaeologies of the Ancient Mediterranean, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and
Heritage Studies Special Issue (in prep/under contract).
With M. Boyd (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Ancient
Mediterranean, DeGruyter: Berlin (in press).
With B. Frischer (eds.). Beyond illustration: 2D and 3D Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology,
Archaeopress: Oxford, and ACLS Humanities E-Book (2008).
With S. Sherratt (eds.). Autochthon: Papers Presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his
Retirement, Archaeopress: Oxford (2005).
Monographs
The House of Kadmos at Thebes, Greece: the Excavations of Antonios D. Keramopoullos (1906-1929). Vol. I:
Architecture, Stratigraphy and Finds, Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Collana di Filologia e Antichita Egea 8, Istituti
Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali: Rome and Pisa (in prep.).
Book contributions
“Introduction”, in A. Dakouri-Hild (ed.), Public Archaeologies of the Ancient Mediterranean, Journal of Eastern
Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Special Issue (in prep).
With A. Papadaki, “Perceptions of the past among contemporary Thebans”, in A. Dakouri-Hild (ed.), Public
Archaeologies of the Ancient Mediterranean, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage
Studies Special Issue (in prep).
With M. Boyd, “Introduction”, in A. Dakouri-Hild & M. Boyd (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance,
Architecture and Landscape in the Ancient Mediterranean, DeGruyter: Berlin (in press).
“Getting to funerary place in a fairly short stretch of time: death and performance in the prehistoric Aegean”, in
A. Dakouri-Hild & M. Boyd (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the
Ancient Mediterranean, DeGruyter: Berlin (in press).
“The most discouraged Mycenaeans: performing emotion and death through gesture in Late Bronze Age
Tanagra, Greece”, in C. Walsh & A. Gardner (eds.), Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily
Communication, Oxbow: Oxford (in press).
“Craft and sensory play in Late Bronze Age Boeotia”. In J. Day (ed.), Making Senses of the Past: Toward a
Sensory Archaeology, Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper no. 40, Center for
Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University: Carbondale, IL (2013).
“Theban workshops and the construction of prestige”. In V. Aravantinos & E. Kountouri (eds.), A Century of
Archaeological Work at Thebes (1900-2000), Greek Ministry of Culture, T.A.P.: Athens (2013).
“Making a difference: production and consumption of prestige artifacts in Late Bronze Age Boeotia”. In M. L.
Nosch & R. Laffineur (eds.), Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age, PASP: Liège
(2012).
“Thebes”. In M. Finkelberg (ed.). The Homer Encyclopedia, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford (2011), vol. III:
859-861 .
“Hypothebes”. In M. Finkelberg (ed.). The Homer Encyclopedia, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford (2011), vol. II:
386-387.
“Thebes”. In E. H. Cline (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, OUP: Oxford: 690-711
(2010).
“Boeotia”. In E. H. Cline (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, OUP: Oxford: 614-630
(2010).
With S. Sherratt, “Introduction”. In Dakouri-Hild & Sherratt (eds.), Autochthon: Papers Presented to O.T.P.K.
Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement, Archaeopress: Oxford: 4-8 (2005).
“Breaking the mould? Production and economy in the Theban state”. In Dakouri-Hild & Sherratt (eds.),
Autochthon: Papers Presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement, Archaeopress:
Oxford: 207-24 (2005).
With E. Andrikou, V. Aravantinos & E. Kountouri (main author), “A Geographic Information System (GIS) in
Boeotian Thebes: taking measures for heritage management, archaeological research and public outreach". In
R. Laffineur & K. Foster (eds.), Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, PASP: Liège: 49-56 (2003).
“Plotting fragments: a preliminary assessment of the Middle Helladic settlement in Boeotian Thebes”. In K.
Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age, Sheffield UP: Sheffield: 103-18 (2001).
“An update on the House of Kadmos: the latest study campaigns”. In V. Aravantinos (ed.), Proceedings of the
5th International Conference on Boeotian studies, Society of Boeotian Studies: Athens (in press).
Articles
With V. Aravantinos & Y. Fappas, “The Theban cemeteries republication project: funerary topography,
architecture and finds (1897-1919)”, American Journal of Archaeology (in prep.)
“Something old, something new: current research on the ‘Old Kadmeion’ of Thebes”, Bulletin of the Institute of
Classical Studies 48 (2006): 173-186.
“A fragmented landscape and the Digital Thebes project”, Boeotika Analekta 2002: 110-14.
“The House of Kadmos in Mycenaean Thebes reconsidered: architecture, chronology and context”, Annual of
the British School of Archaeology 96 (2001): 81-122.
“Research note: the House of Kadmos (Kadmeion archaeological site)”, Teiresias 32/2 (2001): 12.1.04.
“Work in progress”, Teiresias 28 (1998): 98.1.03.
“The origin of the tholos tomb”, Archaeology and Art 68 (1998): 60-68.
Reviews
C. Wiersma, Building the Bronze Age: Architectural and Social Change on the Greek Mainland, Journal of
Greek Archaeology 1 (in prep.).
S. German, Performance in the Aegean Bronze Age, American Journal of Archaeology 112/2 (2008), online.
N. Papalexandrou, The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths and Tripods in Early Greece, Classical
Review 57/1 (2006): 204-205.
I. Malkin (ed.), Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, American Journal of Archaeology 109/2 (2005):
305-307.
J. Siapkas, Heterological Ethnicity: Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece, American Journal of
Archaeology 109/2 (2005): 304-305.
Awards
2015
2014
2011
2008
2007
2004
2002
2001-2003
2001
A&S Teaching and Technology grant (Flowerdew Hundred Plantation simulation)
Buckner W. Clay award, University of Virginia (archaeology fair).
Mediterranean Archaeological Trust award, University of Oxford.
Society outreach grant, Archaeological Institute of America (archaeology fair).
AHSS research grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia.
INSTAP research award (with P.I. Vassilis Aravantinos).
Research grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia.
Faculty grant as part of the Double Hoo student award
Faculty 12-month fellowship, ACLS (see above, fellowships).
Research grant, College of Arts and Sciences and Office for Research and Graduate Studies,
University of Virginia.
Institute for Aegean Prehistory (Philadelphia) printing subvention, for Dakouri-Hild & Sherratt
2005 (eds.).
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Three-year research grant from the Semitic Museum, Harvard University.
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Michael Ventris Memorial award, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, in
2000
1999
1998-2000
1998
1997-1998
recognition of significant new research in the field of Aegean prehistory.
Research grant from the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, University of Oxford.
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Levy-Plumb Discretionary research grant, Christ’s College.
Garrod award, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Henry Arthur Thomas research grant, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Levy-Plumb Discretionary research grant, Christ’s College.
Three-year Levy-Plumb scholarship for Ph.D. awarded on the basis of academic merit, Christ’s
College, University of Cambridge.
Offered departmental scholarship by the Department of Classics, University of Durham, to
cover tuition cost for Ph.D.
Dean’s award, University of Durham, Dean’s Office.
Rosemary Cramp award, University of Durham, Department of Archaeology.
Departmental bursary from the Department of Classics, University of Durham to cover part of
tuition, awarded on the basis of academic promise.
Teaching and other instructional activities (University of Virginia)
Courses (2006-to date)
Undergraduate
ARTH 1500
ARTH 3559
ARTH 3591
ARTH 4591
ARTH 4591
ARTH 4591
ARAH 4591
ARTH 2051
ARTH 2052
ARTH 2056
Exploring the visual (seminar)
Intro to ceramic analysis (lab)
Antiquity and film (colloquium)
Politics of the past (seminar)
Art and cognition (seminar)
Akrotiri: Pompeii of the prehistoric Aegean (seminar)
Minoans and Mycenaeans (seminar)
Art and archaeology of the Near East (lecture course)
Ancient Egypt (lecture course)
Aegean art and archaeology (lecture course)
Graduate
ARAH 9505
ARAH 916
ARAH 7505
ARAH 713
ARAH 592-1
ARAH 592-2
ARAH 9999
Politics of ancient art (seminar)
Minoans and Mycenaeans (seminar)
Aegean art and archaeology (lecture course)
Ancient Egypt (lecture course)
Advanced readings in the archaeology of the Levant
Advanced readings in gender and feminism
Advanced readings in ethnoarchaeology
Field work-based instruction
2011
Thebes, Katherine Napora (Ingrassia Echols award, undergraduate)
Thebes, Alicia Dissinger (Double Hoo award, graduate)
Thebes, Taylor Murtishaw (Double Hoo award, undergraduate; and Marker, Childs, Pugsley
award in archaeology)
Independent studies
Undergraduate
ARCY 3993
ARTH 3993
ARCY 3993
ARTH 3993
ARTH 3993
Chryssi Cook, Archaeology (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
Chryssi Cook, Archaeology (Spring 2015)
Marien Villaman, William Pedrick (Spring 2015)
Katherine Napora, Archaeology/Echols (Spring 2011)
Taylor Murtishaw, Classics (Spring 2011)
Graduate
J. Benton, PhD candidate, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology (Fall 2009)
R. Gondek, PhD, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology (Spring 2008)
R. Motta, PhD, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology (Spring 2008)
Dissertations (University of Virginia)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
-Supervisor, T. Murtishaw, The Ishtar Gate and Processional Way in Babylon, DMP thesis, Art
History/Anthropology (Fall 2012-Spring 2013). Distinction.
-Doctoral committee, S. Layton, Liminality and Performance in Etruscan Art (defended 2013)
-Doctoral committee, J. Benton, Bakeries and Societies in Pompeii (defended 2014).
-Doctoral committee, C. Sulosky, Depositing the Dead: Material Culture and Funerary Practices in
Kamarina, Sicily, ca. 5th to 3rd Century BC (defended 2013).
-Reader, K. Becker, Hephaistos and Disability, DMP thesis, Art History (Spring 2011).
-Supervisor, K. Accetta, Utopia: Memory, Landscape and Agency in the Amarna era, 1353-1336 BCE,
DMP thesis, Archaeology (Fall 2009-Spring 2010). High distinction.
-Reader, H. Urso, The Perplexity of Prostitution: Hetairai and Pornai in Classical Athenian
Red-Figure Vase-Painting, DMP thesis, Art History (Spring 2010).
Supervisor, A. Diamond, Cultural and Religious Transformations during the Amarna Period, DMP
thesis, Art History (Fall 2008-Spring 2009). Distinction.
-Reader, R. Gondek, Weddings, Dress and Gender in Ancient Athens, MA thesis, Art History (Spring
2007).
-Reader, M. Pitts, Transporting Liquid, Transforming Culture: the Askos in Cypriot Ritual and
Archaeology, DMP thesis, Archaeology/Anthropology (Spring 2007).
Miscellaneous instructional activities
INST 1550
Egyptomania (Spring 2010; undergrad student-initiated course by Christina Hunt; supervision)
Service
To the University of Virginia
2015- Director of diversity and inclusion, Art department.
Director, DMP program in Archaeology.
Lower division advisor, A&S
2015 COLA advising seminar, Fall 2015 (The visual and the everyday)
2011 Panel member, 11th Annual Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition.
2010 Harrison Awards Review Panel member.
Panel member, 10th Annual Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition.
Night of Virginia Archaeology, Virginia Archaeology Society talk (student-organized).
2009 Panel member, 9th Annual Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition.
2008
2007
Night of Classical Archaeology (Archaeology Major Group), contributor.
Panel member, Undergraduate Research Network Symposium, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Panel member, Undergraduate Research Network Symposium, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Metadata systematization for Rome Forum Project and IATH, sponsored by the A. W. Mellon
Foundation.
The Digital Documentation Project at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai (Egypt): concept paper and
proposal, IATH and A. W. Mellon Foundation.
To the discipline
2014- AIA, Charlottesville Chapter outreach officer
2011 -Archimedes Program (evaluation of research proposals, Humanities and Social Sciences), Greek
Ministry of Education (June 2011) reviewer
-Thalis Program (evaluation of research proposals, Humanities and Social Sciences), Greek Ministry of
Education (February 2011, and June 2011) reviewer
2010 -Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada reviewer
-Herakleitos II Program (evaluation of PhD proposals in Greek Universities, Humanities and Social
Sciences), Greek Ministry of Education (September 2010) reviewer
-Vice-President, Archaeological Institute of America (Charlottesville Society, 2010-)
2009 MacArthur Foundation reviewer
2007 International Evaluation Committee for MIDAS (English Heritage, National Monuments Records and
Data Standards Unit; February 2007)
Talks
Named lectures and series lectures
2013
2008
2006
2004
Archaeological Institute of America (Richmond Chapter, 11 April 2013): “Placing myth: recent
archaeological work in Thebes”.
New York Institute of Fine Arts, Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Lecture (October 17, 2008): “New
Fieldwork on the House of Kadmos”.
Archaeological Institute of America Quarterly Lecture (Charlottesville chapter, September 12):
“Recent archaeological fieldwork in Thebes, Greece”.
Annual Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, March
20): “Something old, something new: current research on the ‘Old Kadmeion’ of Thebes”. The lecture
concluded a conference celebrating 50 years of Mycenaean studies at the Institute.
Colloquia (organizer)
2015
2012
Public Archaeologies of the Ancient Mediterranean, 116th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological
Institute of America, New Orleans, 8-11 January, 2015.
Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture, and Landscape in the Aegean, 113th Annual
Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio, 2-5 January, 2012.
Conference and workshop talks
“Introduction”, in Public Archaeologies of the Ancient Mediterranean, 116th Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans), January 2015.
“The most discouraged Mycenaeans: performing emotion and death through gesture in Late Bronze Age
Tanagra, Greece”, in Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication, UCL, UK,
November 2014.
“A taste of prehistoric Greece: the E. Gilliéron replicas at the Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia”, in
Receiving and Visualizing the Past: Then and Now panel, 94th Anniversary Meeting of the Classical
Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, 16-18 October, 2014.
“Deathscape beyond: the Theban Cemeteries Republication Project”, 115th Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, 4 Jan 2014.
“Staging death: an introduction”, Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture, and Landscape in the
Aegean Colloquium, 113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio, 2-5
January, 2012.
“My life in ruins: recent archaeological work in Thebes”, Department of Classics, University of Texas at
Austin, 8 March 2011.
“A mythical landscape unearthed: recent archaeological work in Thebes, Greece”, UNC Greensboro, February
18.
“Ceramic production in LBA Thebes’, with Maury Morgenstein & M. Johnson, Archaeological Institute of
America Annual Meeting, San Antonio, January 2011.
“Making a difference: production and consumption of prestige artifacts in Late Bronze Age Boeotia”,
Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-23 April 2010 (in
absentia due to Icelandic ash).
“Craft and sensory play in Late Bronze Age Boeotia”, Making Senses of the Past: Towards a Sensory
Archaeology, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, 26-27 March 2010.
“Lives in chains: artifact biographies and craft processes in LBA Thebes”, Archaeological Institute of America
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2009.
“The House of Kadmos workshop material: a report on the 2001 study season”, in Thebes Centenary
Conference, Thebes Cultural Centre, 16-17 November 2002.
“The Boeotian GIS pilot project”, in Metron Conference, Yale University, 18-21 April 2002.
"Moulds and ashes: workshops in Mycenaean Thebes”, in Workshop on Workshops, Faculty of Classics,
University of Cambridge, 6 July 2000.
“An update on the House of Kadmos: the latest study campaigns”, in Fifth International Conference on
Boeotian Studies, Thebes, 9-13 September 2000.
“Urbanism in Mycenaean Thebes”, in 5th Round Table on Aegean Archaeology, Department of Archaeology,
University of Sheffield, 14-17 January 2000.
“Legend, identity, interpretation”, in Annual Meeting of the European Assosiation of Archaeologists, Dorset,
Bournemouth University, 14-19 September 1999.
“New light on the stratigraphy and dating of the House of Kadmos: assessing the impact on Theban
chronology”, in Third Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Birmingham, 19-20 February
1999.
“Monumentality in LH III A2-B1 Mycenae as state propaganda”, in Second Symposium on Mediterranean
Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 17-20 February 1998.
Seminars
“Prospecting the past: geophysics in archaeology and survey”, Dept. of Geosciences seminar, Vtech, April
2015.
“The Thebes cemeteries project: an update”, Classics Department Tuesday Luncheon, Feb 4, 2014.
“Analyze this: ceramic production in LBA Thebes”, Brown Bag seminar, Department of Anthropology,
University of Virginia, April 2011.
“Building a cemeteries GIS in Thebes”, IATH brown bag talk, 6 December 2010.
“New work on the House of Kadmos”, Tuesday Luncheon, Department of Classics, University of Virginia,
October 13 2009.
“Art in progress: artifact biographies in Late Bronze Age Thebes”, Faculty seminar, Lindner Center for Art
History, University of Virginia, 19 November 2007.
“Mycenaean society: an archaeological and epigraphic update”, Department of Classics, University of Virginia,
7 April 2006.
“Remains of a day: molluscs, palaeodiet and elite consumption in Late Bronze Age Thebes”, Brown Bag
seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, 30 March 2006.
“Religion in Late Bronze Age Boeotia”, Tuesday luncheon, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, 18
October 2005 (also, American School of Classical Studies seminar, 28 April 2006).
“Palatial workshops in Late Bronze Age Greece”, Brown Bag seminar, Department of Anthropology,
University of Virginia, 24 September 2002.
“The House of Kadmos revisited”, Aegean seminar; Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 23 June
2000.
“The rediscovery of a mythical landscape”, Greek Archaeology seminar; Institute of Archaeology, University
of Oxford, 3 February 2000.
“Kadmos in context”, Brown Bag seminar; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, 13 December 2000.
“Space for national identity in archaeological interpretation?”, Interdisciplinary seminar; Faculty of Classics,
University of Cambridge, 5 November 1999.
“Reinventing Mycenaean Thebes: a century of archaeological exploration”, Department of Classics, State
University of New York at Buffalo, 9 April 1999.
Multimedia and poster presentations
With J. Mason & S. Schneiderwind, “Using Ground-Based LIDAR in Heritage Management: the Case of the
House of Kadmos, Thebes (Greece)”, poster session, 116th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of
America, New Orleans, 8-11 January, 2015.
“Archaeo-economics, ceramic technonogy and social uses of pottery in LBA Thebes, Greece”, Presidential
Inauguration competition, University of Virginia, April 2011.
“The Digital Thebes project”, in Thebes Centenary Conference, Thebes Cultural Centre, 16-17 November
2002.
“Digital applications in archaeology and the pilot GIS project of Thebes”, Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities introductory presentation and meeting, University of Virginia, September 2002.
“Digitizing the past”, in Metron Conference, Yale University, 18-21 April 2002.
"Computer-aided design in the presentation of archaeological remains from Thebes”, in Annual Meeting of
the European Assosiation of Archaeologists, Dorset, Bournemouth University, 14-19 September 1999.
Curatorial experience
1996-1997
1994-1996
1993
Archaeologist, Greek Archaeological Service; IX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical
Antiquities and Archaeological Museum of Thebes (general curatorial administration and
excavations).
Archaeologist, Greek Archaeological Service; II (now XVI) Ephorate of Prehistoric and
Classical Antiquities and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (general curatorial administration
and excavations).
Curatorial intern, Greek Archaeological Service; II (now XVI) Ephorate of Prehistoric and
Classical Antiquities and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
Field work
2014
2011
2010
Topographical study and geolocation/mapping of the Theban chamber tombs
Completion of finds study from the old cemeteries of Thebes
Perceptions of antiquity in Theban schools (data collection)
Study of the chamber tomb finds from the old excavations in the cemeteries of Thebes with Y.
Fappas & V. Aravantinos.
House of Kadmos pottery study, final campaign (prehistoric, Spring-Summer 2010); combined
study with T.J. Smith’s work on the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993-1994
material and L. Stylianopoulos’ study of the Medieval pottery; consulted the Greek
Archaeological Service on the museological and architectural enhancement of the Kadmeion
archaeological site.
HK pottery study (prehistoric, Spring-Summer 2009).
HK pottery study (prehistoric, and Medieval with Lucie Stylianopoulos, Spring-Summer
2008).
HK pottery study and re-excavation of the kiln, Spring-Summer 2007.
HK pottery analysis using X-ray fluorescence, with M. Morgenstein and M. Johnson
(University of Berkeley), Spring 2006.
HK study seasons, Spring and Fall (pottery).
HK study season (small artifacts, frescoes, faunal/floral remains).
HK study season (pottery, archivial work).
HK study season (workshop material).
Heidelberg excavations, Unterburg area of the Tiryns citadel, Peloponnese (with the German
Archaeological Institute and Prof. J. Maran’s team).
HK study season (pottery).
HK study season (pottery).
HK re-excavation (on behalf of the Archaeological Service) and architectural study.
Treasury Room excavation, Thebes (as an employee of the Archaeological Service).
Quartier Mu (workshop district) study season, Malia, Crete (with the French School of
Archaeology and A. Farnoux’s team).
Piraeus Agora excavation (as an employee of the Archaeological Service).
Zominthos homestead excavation, Crete (Y. Sakellarakis’ team).
Akrotiri, Thera/Santorini settlement excavation (with Athens University and Prof. C. Doumas’
team).
Traostalos peak sanctuary, Crete (S. Chryssoulaki’s team).
Kythera peak sanctuary study season (Y. Sakellarakis’ team).
Field projects
My main field project is the House of Kadmos in Thebes, a major center of prehistoric Greece equivalent to
Mycenae, Pylos, Knossos and Troy. The site, located on central mainland Greece and excavated in the early
1900s, yielded the first evidence for socially stratified, state society in central Greece. Among the finds are
unfinished prestige artifacts highlighting virtuoso craftsmanship and the monopolistic production of elite
goods. The building itself, which was decorated with pictorial wall-paintings, is the earliest Mycenaean palace
known to date; it features a unique plan and is key to understanding Theban topography and the evolution of
palatial architectural design. The associated pottery workshop illuminates the production of everyday
commodities (such as plain pottery) under the auspices of the palace. The site also affords glimpses into
long-distance trade in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.
I have recently undertaken the republication of the Late Bronze Age cemeteries of Thebes (with Vassilis
Aravantinos and Yiannis Fappas). A database and photographic archive from the 2011 fieldwork is complete;
ensuing a second field campaign in 2014, the catalog of finds is being finalized for conventional republication
and online dissemination.
Digital Thebes
The Digital Thebes project, the pilot phase of which was completed in 2002, aimed at the digital archiving,
mapping and visualization of antiquities and sites from Thebes in Boeotia using Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and more conventional digitization methods. Based on the
pilot project, I have able to discuss the value and potential of digital technologies in the dissemination of
specialized archaeological knowledge, and to ponder on the ability of digital cultural heritage to bridge the past
and the present in the context of a contemporary city.
Affiliations and memberships
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, visiting associate member (2014-)
SHANTI consortium (GIS, Kaltura, VisualEyes cohorts), University of Virginia (2009-)
European Association of Archaeologists (1999-2000)
American Philological Association (2000-2003)
Classical Association of Virginia (2005-)
American Anthropological Association and Archaeology Division (2005-2007)
Archaeological Institute of America, Charlottesville Chapter (2005-), vice-president (2010-)
Archaeological Institute of America (2000-2003)
Oxford and Cambridge Society of Central and Southern Virginia (founding member, 2008-)
Languages
Contemporary
Greek (mother tongue), English (fluent); Italian (good); German, Spanish, French (reading)
Ancient (working knowledge)
Greek, Latin, Mycenaean Greek