E-Mail: kragkou(at)uni-koeln.de
Post address: Universität zu Köln, Archäologisches Institut, Graduiertenkolleg 1878, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| since 2014 | PhD Student at the DFG Research Training Group “Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies” |
| 2011 – 2013 | Master of Arts in Byzantine Studies at the University of Cyprus under the supervision of Dr Athanasios Vionis. Masters’ Thesis: “A Byzantine House at Corinth: Use of Space and Daily Life” (in Greek) (Distinction). |
| 2004 – 2009 | BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens, department of History and Archaeology. Major in Archaeology and Art History (Upper Second-Class Honours). |
Awards
| 2012 – 2013 | Student Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies aτ Athens for the completion of my Masters’ thesis (Harry Bikakis Fellowship). |
| 2013 | Fellow of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation to participate in the ‘Cappadocia in Context Workshop (2013)’ of Koç University OIP &RCAC (Dr R. Ousterhout and Dr T. Uyar). |
Museum Experience
| 2014 | Intern in the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia (Supervisor: D. Papanikola-Bakirtzi). |
| 2013 | Practice in the Coin Collection of the American School at Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth Excavations (Supervisor: G. D. R. Sanders). |
Professional Experience
| since 2014 | Research Assistant at the Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies Programme at the University of Cologne |
| 2013 | Research Assistant at the University of Cyprus within the framework of the “Byzantine and Post Byzantine Boetioa Digitisation Project”, (A. Vionis). |
Fieldwork Experience
| 2009 – 2014 | Field Assistant in the excavation sessions at the Heraion of Samos, German Archaeological Institute of Athens (W.-D. Niemeier) and University of Cyprus (O. Kouka). |
| 2009 – 2014 | Participation in the excavation sessions in Ancient Corinth, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (G. D. R. Sanders). |
| 2013 | Trench Supervisor in the excavation sessions of the “Kourion Urban Space Project”, Tandy Institute for Archaeology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas, USA (Th. W. Davis). |
| 2009, 2011 | Lab Assistant in the excavation sessions at the excavation of the Bronze Age settlement in Kirrha Fokis, the French School of Athens, (Z. Zurbac). |
| 2009 – 2010 | Supervisor for the 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the excavation sessions of the German Archaeological Institute of Athens at the Prehistoric-Roman Sanctuary at Kalapodi (W.-D. Niemeier). |
| 2009 – 2010 | Lab Assistant in the excavation sessions of a Late Antiquity Port at Portus in Fumicino, Italy, British School of Rome, the University of Southampton (S. Keay) and the University of Cambridge (M. Millet). |
| 2009 | Supervisor in rescue excavations in Central Greece, 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Greece. |
| 2008 | Participation in the Pilion Cave Project in Thessaly, Danish Institute of Athens (N. H. Andreasen). |
| 2008 | Lab Assistant in the excavation session of the Neolithic settlement at Avgi in Kastoria (Northern Greece), 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (G Stratouli). |
Research interests
• Byzantine/Medieval Archaeology and History
• Byzantine/Medieval Material Culture
• Economic Geography
• Economic Sociology
• Trade and Exchange Network
• Settlement patterns/Settlement Archaeology
• Historical Anthropology
• Landscape Archaeology
• Archaeological Method and Theory
• Computer-assigned archaeological research (GIS, Statistics, etc.)
Publications
- «A Cityscape of Change: from Byzantine to Frankish Corinth», in Lau Maximilian, Franchi Caterina , Di Rodi Morgan (eds), Landscapes of Power Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference, Oxford, Peter Lang Publications, 2014, pp. 231-252.
Dissertation project
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Sode, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schrenk, Dr. Athanasios Vionis