Kalliopi Nikita | Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports (original) (raw)

My archaeological expertise lies in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, with special focus on the Aegean and Cyprus, covering the chronological range from the Aceramic Neolithic to the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, c. 10,000/7,000-700 BC. As a professional archaeologist I have supervised several excavations and field surveys across Greece and in Cyprus undertaken by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Society at Athens - Attica, Boeotia, Crete, Messenia - and the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (see my CV).

My research specialism is on the archaeology and technology of inorganic materials by applying science-based methods to investigation and culture-based approaches to interpretation. My principal research area is glass and vitreous materials. I have been investigating systematically glass of Mycenaean Greece, its technology, production, and provenance (during my PhD funded by the Hellenic Foundation-London, and then by holding a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship and an AHRC Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, Department of Archaeology, see my CV).

Glass beads have been the epicenter of this long-term research. I am focusing on reconstructing their manufacturing technology and on interpreting their function and use within given archaeological and cultural contexts (in a synchronic and a diachronic perspective). Through this work further interests have been developed in beads of precious/semi-precious stones, gems, jewellery (aspects beyond their making, such as their aesthetics, their role in personal adornment as well as in burial and religious practices). I am also working on Roman/Early Byzantine glass vessels, glass tesserae and window glass from Eleutherna-Sector I (Roman/Early Byzantine Crete) and the outcome of this research is the full publication of the glass finds in the form of a monograph. Recently, I have expanded to the study of pottery from Early Helladic sites of the south-eastern Peloponnese (see my CV).

Further to my long experience in teaching archaeology and archaeological materials/science at undergraduate and postgraduate level, also evinced from my PGCHE, I am qualified in Greek philology and history (teaching Modern Greek as a second/foreign language). For thirteen years I have been teaching Greek from pre-GCSE to GCSE & A-Levels (Greek Supplementary Schools of East Midlands, UK). I joined the Language Centre (School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies, University of Nottingham) as an adjunct lecturer in autumn 2013 where I am teaching Modern Greek from Beginners to Advanced Learners. Currently, I am working on the lingual education and cultural traditions of the Hellenic diaspora, especially in the UK - on a series of seminars, workshops and public events with the Greek and Cypriot Educational Mission, UK, London, and the Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain, London (see my CV).
Address: Athens, Greece

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