Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
B.A., Archaeology and Art History; University of Athens, Greece, 1997
Assistant Director for Research, IATH Anastasia Dakouri-Hild’s current research interests are in material culture and value: in particular, the mutual feedback between value, meaning and style articulation on one hand, and identity construction and negotiation on the other; the archaeological manifestations of value judgments in the realms of production and consumption (including hoarding and gift-exchange); and the intricate play between dominant/élite and non-élite beliefs and identities in shaping the ‘regimes of value’ that broadly characterize any given society. Ms. Dakouri-Hild’s field of specialty is Greek prehistory, located within the broader framework of prehistoric societies and material cultures of the Old World. She has a strong interest in the application of digital technologies in heritage management and archaeology, which has led to the GIS-based Digital Thebes pilot project. She has published extensively on the Mycenaean civilization and the site of Thebes, while she is the principal co-editor of Autochthon: papers presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement (2005) and co-editor of a second, forthcoming book (Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, expected 2007). She is currently formulating a book project, Visual cultures of antiquity, aiming to more fully integrate material culture and archaeological context in the study of ancient art. Alongside her teaching and research presence at the Lindner Center and IATH, Ms. Dakouri-Hild is an active field archaeologist in Greece. Formerly an employee of the Greek Archaeological Service (heritage management and excavation), she has fruitfully collaborated with the 9th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities since 1997 in the re-excavation and publication project of the House of Kadmos (or Old Palace of Thebes). The study is being written up in a monograph entitled The House of Kadmos at Thebes, Greece: the excavations of Antonios D. Keramopoullos (1906–1929). Her work on the House of Kadmos has recently earned her the prestigious Michael Ventris Award of the University of London (2001). In 2006-2007 Ms. Dakouri-Hild will be teaching an undergraduate seminar (Visual Culture of the Prehistoric Aegean, Fall 2006), an undergraduate survey course (The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Near East and Prehistoric Europe, Spring 2007), and a graduate seminar (Minoans and Mycenaeans, Fall 2007). Her complete c.v. can be found here.
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