Dr. Maria Anastasiadou - Lebenslauf
Research Interests
Education and Training
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Teaching Experience
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Lebenslauf
Aegean Bronze Age and especially
- Political and cultural geography of the Aegean on the basis of material culture
- Aegean glyptic
- Aegean scripts, particularly the Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and the Phaistos Disc
- Aegean administration
- Searching for the human behind the objects; the way in which material culture can help understand the societies that created it
| 10/2003 –12/2009 |
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Title of doctoral thesis: "The Middle Minoan Three-Sided Soft Stone Prism. A Study of Style and |
| 09/2001 –09/2002 |
University College London (UCL), University of London, United Kingdom Core subjects: Issues in western Asiatic archaeology / Themes, thought and theory in world |
| 10/1996 –05/2001 |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece School of Philosophy, Department of History and Archaeology (Division: Archaeology and |
| Since 05/2023 | Institute of Classical Archaeology and Byzantine Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Curator of the archive of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (CMS) and lecturer |
| 03/2021 -02/2023 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Universität Wien, Austria, March 2021–February 2023 |
| 09/2019 -08/2020 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Scientific collaborator |
| 07/2016 -08/2019 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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| 07/2014 -01/2016 |
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Mini-Cluster Materialising Memories: Circuits of (Re-) configuration |
| 07/2012 -06/2014 |
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium FSR Incoming Post-doctoral Fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission 2012 |
| 01/2012 -06/2012 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Scientific collaborator |
| 10/2010 -12/2011 |
Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (CMS), Marburg, Germany Scientific collaborator |
| 10/2009 -05/2010 |
Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (CMS), Marburg, Germany Scientific assistant |
| 08/2007 -05/2009 |
Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (CMS), Marburg, Germany Scientific assistant |
| 03/2023 -09/2023 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Universität Wien, Austria Lecture (in German – for undergraduate students) "Graves and burial customs in the Aegean Bronze Age” |
| 09/2022 -01/2023 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Universität Wien, Austria Seminar (in German – for graduate and postgraduate students) “Seals and Sealing Practices in the Aegean Bronze Age” |
| 28/04/2021 | Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Invited meeting within the seminar course of Prof. Dr. Rebecca Müller / Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Dietrich “The Art of Seal Engraving in the longue durée. The Seals from Antiquity to the 16th Century” (video conference, in German) “Minoan and Mycenaean seal engraving: Introduction to the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel” |
| 21/04/2021 | Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Invited meeting within the seminar course of Prof. Sevasti Triantafyllou “Pre-Palace Societies of Crete” (video conference) “Seal Engraving and Sealing Practices in Prepalatial Crete” |
| 09/2020 -12/2020 |
Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. Postgraduate Seminar (for postgraduate and doctoral students, video conference) “Seals as a Tool for Understanding the Aegean Bronze Age” |
| Spring Semester 2018 |
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| Spring Semester 2018 |
Institute for Papyrology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Webinar (in English – for international undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers) “Understanding Bronze Age Aegean through Seals” |
| Winter Semester 2017/2018 |
Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Interdisciplinary seminar (in German – for elementary school classes) held in collaboration with colleagues from Assyriology, Egyptology, Papyrology, Pedagogy, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, and Material Culture Management “Children’s University 2017” |
| Winter Semester 2015/2016 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Exercise (in German – for undergraduate and postgraduate students) “Theoretical approaches to Aegean archaeology” |
| Spring Semester 2014 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Seminar (in German – for undergraduate students) “Introduction to Minoan architecture” |
| Spring Semester 2013 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Seminar (in German – for undergraduate students) “Introduction to the Aegean Glyptic” |
| 2012-2018 | Institute of Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Guided tours and tutorials on the CMS archive in Heidelberg (in German, English and Greek) for students of the Institute of Classical Archaeology of Heidelberg and academic and non-academic visitors (at least four times a semester) |
| Winter Semester 2010-2011 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Exercise (in English – for undergraduate and postgraduate American students on exchange programmes with the Institute of Classical Archaeology) “Introduction to archaeology” |
| Spring Semester 2010 |
Graduate Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Training seminar (in English – for postgraduate and doctoral non-German students) “Preparing a doctoral thesis in Germany” |
| Spring Semester 2010 |
Graduate Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Academic Career Day / One-day seminar (in German – for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students) “Minoan Art, Glimpses in the World of the First European Civilization” |
| 10/2021 -03/2022 |
Institute of Classical Archaeology, Universität Wien, Austria Doctoral dissertation title: “Dalle immagini ai segni: Geroglifico cretese e Lineare A in prospettiva paleografica” |
| 10/2019 -ongoing |
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Doctoral dissertation tile: “The ‘Cretan Popular Group’: The development of soft stone glyptic in the Late Minoan Period (16th-13th C. BCE) and its role as a signifier of social organisation” |
- Work on the publication of about 900 seals kept in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion in a new CMS catalogue volume (CMS II Suppl.)
- Direction for the creation of 750 drawing of seal faces for publication in the CMS volume (Funding INSTAP, Philadelphia), 15/06/2017–30/11/2020
- Permanent exhibition entitled “Aegean Glyptic and the CMS” in a showcase at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Universität Heidelberg
- Linking the digitised version of “A. Evans, 1921–1935, Palace of Minos I–IV, London” with the CMS databases at ARACHNE
URL: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/cms/otherNews/otherNewsOlder.html (cf. August 2013)
| 2021 -2023 |
Lise-Meitner-Stelle, FWF-Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austrian Funds for Science) Twenty-four month funding of the programme “Sealing with Images in Kato Zakros: Tracing the Administrative Fingerprint of a Minoan Neopalatial Town” |
| 2020 -2021 |
Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. Margo Tytus Fellowship Program |
| 2020 .2021 |
Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington Research scholarship |
| 2020 | INSTAP Study Center for East Crete Harriet Hawes-Boyd Fellowship |
| 2017 -2021 |
INSTAP Philadelphia Prize for financing the development of 750 seal face drawings |
| 2012 -2014 |
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium FSR 2012 (FSR Incoming Post-doctoral Fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission) |
| 2010 | Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, United Kingdom Research scholarship for postdoctoral study |
| 2010 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Research scholarship in the context of a doctoral dissertation with the aim of facilitating the study of material |
| 2009 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Research scholarship in the context of a doctoral dissertation with the aim of facilitating the study of material |
| 2004 -2007 |
Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation Three-year scholarship for doctoral dissertation |
| 2001 -2002 |
Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation One-year scholarship for postgraduate study abroad |
