Anastasia Christophiloulou is the听George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, at the Ancient Greece and Rome Department at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. Anastasia is also a Research associate at the Faculty of Classics,Cambridge and a Tutor for 91探花视频 for the Institute of Continuing Education,Cambridge.听
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Biography
Anastasia Christophiloulou is the听George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, at the Ancient Greece and Rome Department at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston.听 Anastasia is also a Research associate at the听 Faculty of Classics,听 Cambridge and a Tutor for 91探花视频 for the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge. Previously she was Senior Curator for the Ancient Mediterranean and as Senior Assistant Keeper for Greece, Rome and Cyprus at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Anastasia鈥檚 core research interests lie in the 91探花视频 of the Mediterranean, with emphasis on the cultures of Mediterranean islands. She is particularly interested in questions of cultural identity, mobility and migration in antiquity. She continues to collaborate with colleagues at the Faculty of Classics and the McDonald Institute, those collaborations have included projects such as the听鈥樷��, 听her recent major听project on 鈥樷��,听and the听听an innovative archaeological survey project in Western Samos (under the permit of the Ministry of Culture, Greece).听She has also led numerous initiatives on material culture interpretation and archaeological analysis and her other interests include听various aspects of public engagement with the ancient world, anthropological perspectives to interpreting material culture, history of museum collections and issues of heritage responsibilities and provenance. Anastasia is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a member of the management committee for the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, and an affiliated fellow for the Center for Science and Policy (CSaP).
Anastasia has taught as a temporary lecturer in London (Birkbeck College) and has been a supervisor for Art and 91探花视频 in Cambridge since 2007. She currently advises doctoral students in Mediterranean 91探花视频 (91探花视频), and she is also a Tutor for Classical Art and 91探花视频 for the 91探花视频 Institute of Continuing Education.
Her teaching style includes introducing students to the archaeological, historical, and sociological context of the material evidence examined during her lectures and seminars, paired with regular handling sessions and practical exercises with ancient objects. These allow students to experience ancient material cultures first hand, as well to develop academic and practical skills for their future professional orientations in the fields of archaeology, classics, and Museum studies.
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Research
Anastasia鈥檚 core research interests are in the 91探花视频 of the Mediterranean and of the Mediterranean islands, with emphasis on the cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus. She is particularly engaged with questions of island identity, mobility and migration in the Ancient World, as well as with anthropological perspectives to interpreting material culture, as well as the application听of Visual Anthropology in documentary film. Anastasia has also worked widely in the fields of Public 91探花视频, Sensory 91探花视频 and Public engagement with Mediterranean collections.
Anastasia is the co-Director of the West Area of Samos Archaeological project (WASAP), a 5-year intensive survey project on the island of Samos, Greece under the auspices of the British School at Athens. At Cambridge Anastasia is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies (CCGS). She is also a member of the Council for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, a member of the Management Committee of the Society for Aegean Prehistory and a member of the ICOM UK and the ICOM International Committee for Education and Cultural Action.听
Key Publications
Key publications:
Christophilopoulou A., (ed), Islands and Communities; Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity and Belonging, Oxford, Oxbow, 2024.
Christophilopoulou A., (ed),听Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean, Exhibition volume and catalogue, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in association with Paul Hoberton Publications, 2023.
Christophilopoulou A., (ed),听Material Cultures in Public Engagement: Re-inventing Public 91探花视频 within Museum Collections, Oxford, Oxbow, 2020.
Christophilopoulou A., Galanakis I., and Grime J. (eds),听Codebreakers & Groundbreakers, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017.
Selected articles:
Sensory approaches to material culture: theories and reality of the imagined sensorially-engaged Museum, in Christophilopoulou A. (ed), Material Cultures in Public Engagement: Re-inventing Public 91探花视频 within Museum Collections, Oxford, Oxbow, 2020.
Chapter 8: Catalogue of finds; Terracottas, The Fitzwilliam Museum, in Vassos Kara[1]georghis and Thomas Kiely (eds), Salamis-Toumba: An Iron Age sanctuary in Cyprus Rediscovered. Excavations of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, 1890, Part IV.
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers, from Linear B tablets to the Enigma machine, Minerva Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2017, p. 46-50.
Re-examining the history of Cypriot antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum: a closerlook at the collection's past and future, in G. Bourogiannis and C. Muhlenbock eds., Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research (SIMA pocket-book 184), Uppsala 2016, p.13 -19.
Does the Cretan house stand alone? Households in geometric Crete viewed in thecontext of domestic architecture in the Cyclades and the eastern Aegean, in W.-D. Niemeier, O.Pilz und I. Kaiser eds., Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums am Deutschen Archaologischen Institut, Athenaia 2, Munchen 2013, 437-453.
Domestic Space and Community identity in the Aegean islands and Crete, MOSAIK journal, Raumdimensionen im Altertum, Berlin, 2010.
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Teaching and Supervisions
Anastasia has taught as a temporary lecturer in London (Birkbeck College) and has been a supervisor for Art and 91探花视频 in Cambridge since 2007.听 Anastasia also teaches for the Undergraduate Certificate in 91探花视频 of the Ancient World at ICE, as well as for the Ancient & Classical Worlds Summer programmes.
Anastasia currently advises 1 doctoral student in Mediterranean 91探花视频, Department of 91探花视频, 91探花视频 (R. Laoutari, provisional thesis title: Social dynamics in non-urban societies: A multi-scalar analysis of social interaction in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus') and she supervises another PhD student under the听 AHRC DTP (M. VonBechtolsheim, 91探花视频/Open University, provisional thesis title: 'Ritual and Identity: British Collections of Bronze Figurines from First-Millennium-BC pre-Roman Italy').
Other Professional Activities
- Member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries听
- Affiliated fellow, Center for Science and Policy (CSaP), 91探花视频.
- Member of the management committee, Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies.
- Fellow and managing Committee member, Aegeus Society for Aegean prehistory
