Curriculum

Eleftheria specialises in the archaeology of Iron Age Mediterranean. She received her doctorate in archaeology (DPhil) from the University of Oxford in 2010, under the supervision of Prof. Irene Lemos, following studies in Oxford (MPhil, Classical Archaeology) and Bristol (BA Archaeology), after finishing high school in her native Athens. In her doctorate, she treated mobility in Early Iron Age Mediterranean, with a special focus on the Phoenician expansion in the West. In 2010, Eleftheria was awarded a 3-year Veni research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, in the context of the ‘Innovational Research Incentive Scheme’, which was hosted by the VU University Amsterdam. She has also been a guest scholar or visiting assistant at other research institutes, including the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and the University of Ghent. She has taught modules in classical Greek and Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Oxford (as a tutor for various colleges of the university) and on Phoenician archaeology and classical antiquity at the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Groningen respectively. Eleftheria has published two single-authored books on aspects of Phoenician archaeology in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, as well as several articles in journals and books. Her current post-doctoral project, supervised by Prof. Critisna Kormikiari, is funded by the Fundação de Amparo do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). The aim is to understand better the mechanisms of commercial exchanges in the Early Iron Age Mediterranean, specifically in areas touched by Phoenician trade and settlement.

Email

eleftheria_pappa@usp.br

Projects

Commercial mechanisms, monetisation and literacy in the Mediterranean and the Near East: social innovation and institutional inhibition of Phoenician commerce post-doctoral project funded by the Fundação de Amparo do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)