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CURRICULUM VITAE

Eleni Hatzaki
eleni.hatzaki@uc.edu
Assistant Professor of Classics
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0226
Tel. (513) 556-3204; Fax (513) 556-4366

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Aegean Prehistory; Bronze Age Crete; the archaeology of Prehistoric Knossos; burial customs, ritual and society; identity, representation and material culture; the archaeology of urban complexity; household archaeology; elite and vernacular architecture; building techniques, design and craftsmanship; pottery production and consumption; pottery and its relationship to food production and consumption; ceramic chronology and typology (Knossos, Palaikastro, Myrtos-Pyrgos, Kythera); early 20th century scholarship and its impact on understanding the archaeology of the Prehistoric Aegean.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2007-present Assistant Professor – University of Cincinnati

2006-2007 Acting Director – British School at Athens (November 2006 – April 2007, while Director on study leave)

2003-2007 Assistant Director – British School at Athens

1999-2003 Knossos Curator – British School at Athens

1997 Lecturer - College Year in Athens

1996 Contract Archaeologist for BSA projects at Knossos & Palaikastro (Crete)

1995 Contract Archaeologist for BSA projects at Knossos & Palaikastro (Crete), Phylla Vrachos (Euboea)

1995 Contract Archaeologist – Lefkandi Toumba (Euboea) study season.

1995 Contract Archaeologist (23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities -November-January 1995): Contract archaeologist in rescue excavation and restoration work in the Knossos Palace; excavation of Neolithic and Bronze Age levels. Archival work on the organisation of the Museum’s Archives dating from the early 1900s

EDUCATION

1989-1994 D.Phil. in Classical Archaeology. St. Hilda’s College, Oxford (under the supervision of Mr. M. R. Popham).
Dissertation topic: The Little Palace at Knossos. A Re-examination. Now published as a British School at Athens Supplementary Volume Series no. 38 (2005).

1988-1989 M.St. in Archaeology (The Late Bronze Age in the Aegean).  St. Hilda’s College, Oxford (under the supervision of Mr. M. R. Popham).

1985-1988 B.A. in History. Deree College, Athens.

GRANTS FOR FIELDWORK

2007  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2006  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2004  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2003  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2003  BSA Fieldwork Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2002  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2002  BSA Fieldwork Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2002  INSTAP Fieldwork Grant – Knossos: the Nicolaos Platon Boxes (with N. Momigliano and D. Wilson)

2001  INSTAP Research Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

2001  BSA Fieldwork Grant – Knossos Little Palace North Project.

1997-1999  The White – Levy Program for Archaeological Publications

1997  INSTAP Research Grant towards the study and publication of the Temple Tomb at Knossos

1995  Knossos Donated Fund towards the study for publication of the Little Palace at Knossos

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2003-2004 Senior Research Fellow (Visiting Scholar) – Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford

1997-8 Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Fellowship Award towards the study and publication of the Temple Tomb at Knossos.

1995  The Hellenic Foundation 10th Annual Award for the best doctoral thesis in the UK (Ancient/Classical Period, Archaeology and History category).

1994  Michael Ventris Memorial Award. Supplementary Award for the study of the LM III occupation at the Queen’s Megaron and Bathroom in the Domestic Quarter of the Palace at Knossos.

1992-4 T. W. Greene Scholarship, University of Oxford.

1992  Oxford University Hardship Fund

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

Hatzaki E. M., 2005a. Knossos: the Little Palace (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume Series no. 38) London. Accepted for publication in 1998.

SECTIONS OF BOOK

Hatzaki, E., 2007a. ‘Neopalatial (MM IIIB-LM IB): KS 178, Gypsades Well (Upper Deposit), and SEX North House Groups’ in N. Momigliano (ed.), Knossos Pottery Handbook. Neolithic and Bronze Age (British School at Athens Studies volume 14), 151-196.

Hatzaki, E., 2007b. ‘Final Palatial (LM II-IIIA2) and Postpalatial (LM IIIB-LM IIIC Early): MUM South Sector, Long Corridor Cists, MUM Pits (8, 10-11), Makritikhos ‘Kitchen’, MUM North Platform Pits, and SEX Southern Half Grousps’ in N. Momigliano (ed.), Knossos Pottery Handbook. Neolithic and Bronze Age (British School at Athens Studies volume 14), 197-251.

Hatzaki, E., 2007c. ‘Well 576: the pottery deposits and ceramic sequence’ in J. A. MacGillivray, L. H. Sackett and J. M. Driessen (eds), Palaikastro. Two Late Minoan Wells (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume No. 43), 15-94.

CO-EDITED VOLUME

Cadogan, G., E. Hatzaki and A. Vasilakis (eds), 2004. Knossos: Palace, City, State. Proceedings of the Conference in Herakleion organised by the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Herakleion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans’s Excavations at Knossos (British School at Athens Studies 12) [For a Bryn Mawr Classical Review by D. J. Muhly (University of Pennsylvania), see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-09-17.html] .

BOOK IN ADVANCED STAGE OF PREPARATION

Hatzaki, E., (in preparation). Knossos: the Temple Tomb (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume Series).

ARTICLES PEER REVIEWED

Hatzaki, E., 2007. ‘Pottery groups of the early Neopalatial period at Knossos in the context of Crete and the South Aegean’ in F. Felten, W. Gauss and R. Smetana (eds) Middle Helladic pottery and synchronisms. Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 – Aegina conference, Salzburg October 2004. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 273-294.

Hatzaki, E., 2005b. ‘Postpalatial Knossos: town and cemeteries from LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC’ in A. -L. D’Agata and J. Moody (eds) Ariadne’s Threads. Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in the Postpalatial Period (LM IIIA2 to SM) (Italian School at Athens): 65-95 [Reviewed by A. Kotsonas in Journal of Hellenic Studies 126 (2006) 188-9] .

Hatzaki, E., 2004. ‘From Final Palatial to Postpalatial Knossos: a view from the Late Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIB town’ in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki and A. Vasilakis (eds) Knossos: Palace, City, State. Proceedings of the Conference in Herakleion organised by the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Herakleion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans’s Excavations at Knossos (British School at Athens Studies 12): 121-6.

ARTICLES IN PRESS (PEER REVIEWED)

Hatzaki, E. (in press). ‘Defining domestic architecture and household assemblages at Late Bronze Age Knossos’ in K. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds) The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete. Hesperia Supplement, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Hatzaki, E. (in press). ‘Structured deposition as ritual action in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Palace at Knossos’ in A.-L. D’Agata, A. Van de Moortel and M.B. Richardson (eds) Archaeologies of Cult. Essays on Ritual Cult and Religion in Crete and the Aegean. Hesperia Supplement. Princeton School of Classical Studies at Athens.

ARTICLES IN ADVANCED STAGE OF PREPARATION (PEER REVIEWED)

Hatzaki, E. (in preparation).‘Pots, frescoes, textiles and people. The social life of decorated pottery at Late Bronze Age Knossos, Crete’ (Paper presented at the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology Round Table 2008: Technologies of Representation).

Hatzaki, E. (in preparation). ‘The palatial past in a post-palatial present. Strategies of re-occupation, abandonment, and new settlement in post-palatial Knossos’ (Paper presented at the 108th Joint AIA/APA Annual Meeting January 3-6, 2008 in Chicago, IL. Session 4A: Transformation and change in palatial and post-palatial Crete).

Hatzaki, E. (in preparation). ‘ Spatial and Temporal Variability in Identity and Representation within the Final and Postpalatial (LM II-LM IIIB) Cemeteries of Crete’ (paper presented at the 108th Joint AIA/APA Annual Meeting January 4-7, 2007 in San Diego, CA; Colloquium on ‘Regional and Diachronic Studies on Prehistoric Crete: Mortuary Systems’).

Hatzaki, E. (in preparation). ‘Mortuary Practices and Ideology in Bronze-Early Iron Age Crete and Cyprus: Comparative Perspectives’ (in collaboration with Dr. P. Keswani for the comparable discussion of Cyprus) (paper presented at the University of Cyprus, University of Crete, and the BSA, Conference, Nicosia November 2006 ‘Parallel lives: ancient island societies in Crete and Cyprus’).

Hatzaki, E. (in preparation). ‘Ceramic production and consumption at the Neopalatial settlement of Myrtos-Pyrgos: the case of the ‘in & out’ bowl’ (Paper to be submitted to the Annual of the British School at Athens).

OTHER ARTICLES

Hatzaki, E., 2005c. ‘The BSA in the field – Crete’ in J. Whitley and E. Calligas (eds) A History of the British School at Athens: 68-87. Athens: Motibo.Coldstream, J. N. and E. Hatzaki, 2003. ‘Knossos 2000: Villa Dionysos Viridarium Test’ Annual of the British School at Athens 98: 279-306.

Hatzaki, E., 2001. ‘Construction, repairs and re-occupation in the Knossos town: the architectural history of the Little Palace’ in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Cretan Studies, Herakleion, 1: 553-62.

Hatzaki E., 2000. ‘The Post-palatial period in Crete’ in D. Huxley (ed.) Cretan Quests: British Explorers, Excavators and Historians: 151-61. London: British School at Athens.

Hatzaki, E., 1998. ‘Test at Main Street’ in L. H. Sackett, J. A. MacGillivray and J. Driessen. ‘Excavations at Palaikastro, 1994, 1996’ Annual of the British School at Athens 93: 262-4.

Hatzaki, E. M., 1996. ‘Was the Little Palace at Knossos the ‘little palace of Knossos’?’ in D. Evely, I. S. Lemos and S. Sherratt (eds.), Minotaur and Centaur. Studies in the archaeology of Crete and Euboea presented to Mervyn Popham (BAR International Series 638): 34-45. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum.

Hatzaki, E. M., 1995. ‘The destruction date of the Little Palace at Knossos: LM IIIA or LM IIIB?’ Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 40: 251-2. (Summary of Mycenaean Seminar paper: November 1994)

OTHER ARTICLES SUBMITTED

Hatzaki, E., (forthcoming). ‘Under the floor: structured deposits from cists and pits at the Bronze Age palace at Knossos’ Proceedings of the 10^th Cretological Congress, Khania October 2006. Round Table: Feasting and Ritual Depositions in Prehistoric and Geometric Crete’.

Hatzaki, E. (forthcoming). ‘Prospects and limitations in the study of Late Bronze Age ceramics from Crete. The case of Knossos’ in K. Kopaka (ed.) Aegean Prehistory at the Start of the 21st Century (Proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Rethimnon, November 2003). University of Crete Press. [in Greek]

BOOK REVIEW

Hatzaki, E. 2007. ‘Review of Knossos: South House by P.A. Mountjoy (London 2003) ’American Journal of Archaeology 111.2 (April 2007).

ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS

Hatzaki, E., 2006. ‘Crete’ in ‘Archaeology on Greece 2005-2006’ J. Whitley, S. Germanidou, D. Urem-Kotsou, A. Dimoula, I. Nikolakopoulou, A. Karnava, and E. Hatzaki 2006. Archaeological Reports 52: 102-111.

Hatzaki, E., 2005. ‘Crete’ in J. Whitley, S. Germanidou, D. Urem-Kotsou, A. Dimoula, I. Nikolakopoulou, A. Karnava, and E. Hatzaki  2005. ‘Archaeological Reports for 2004-2005’ Archaeological Reports 51: 100-118.

‘Crete’ in J. Whitley 2004. ‘Archaeological Reports for 2003-2004’ Archaeological Reports 50: 77-92.

‘Crete’ in J. Whitley 2003. ‘Archaeological Reports for 2002-2003’ Archaeological Reports 49: 78-88.

‘Crete’ in D. Blackman 2002. ‘Archaeological Reports for 2001-2002’ Archaeological Reports 48: 104-14.

‘Crete’ in D. Blackman 2001. ‘Archaeological Reports for 2000-2001’ Archaeological Reports 47: 126-43.

‘Crete’ in D. Blackman 2000. ‘Archaeological Reports for 1999-2000’ Archaeological Reports 46: 127-51.

‘Crete’ in D. Blackman 1999. ‘Archaeological Reports for 1998-1999’ Archaeological Reports 45: 112-24.

FIELDWORK IN GREECE

Excavations & study seasons, directed

Knossos, Crete, Little Palace North Project (fieldwork 2001, 2002; study seasons 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Knossos, Villa Dionysos Viridarium Project (fieldwork 2000; study season 2001).

Excavations, trench supervisor

Knossos (1992, 1997)

Palaikastro (1990, 1991, 1996)

Phylla (1996).

Study seasons

Knossos, various projects (1989-95, 1994-5, 1997-9)

Palaikastro (1992, 1996, 1997)

Malia (1991)

Kythera (2002)

Lefkandi (1989, 1995)

Survey

Phylla, Euboea (1992)

Architectural recording

Dokos, Peloponnese (1992)

Conservation project

Knossos Little Palace and Unexplored Mansion (supervision of conservation work 1995)

CONFERENCES,EXHIBITIONS ETC. – ORGANIZED

  2001  John Pendlebury Exhibition for the British School at Athens shown at Knossos and Herakleion (May-July 2001).

  2000  Knossos: Palace, City, State. A five day conference (over 60 speakers; 300 attending) on  held at Herakleion, Crete November 15-19 2000 (54 papers published as British School at Athens Studies 12 (2004).

  2000  Frescoes: a passport into the past. Minoan Crete through the eyes of Mark Cameron transferred to Herakleion (October-November 2000).

  2000  Arthur Evans – Minos Kalokairinos Exhibition organised for the British School at Athens and held in Herakleion Museum (March-November 2000) for the Evans centenary.

  2000  Evans Centenary Events, Knossos and Herakleion (March – November 2000). I was principally responsible for the organisation of the other ‘Evans Centenary Events’ of the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in 2000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES (2003-present)

2008

Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology Round Table 2008: Technologies of Representation: ‘Pots, frescoes, textiles and people. The social life of decorated pottery at Late Bronze Age Knossos, Crete’ (in preparation for publication).

AIA/APA 108th Joint Annual Meeting January 3-6, 2008 in Chicago, IL.

 Session 4A: Transformation and change in palatial and post-palatial Crete: ‘The palatial past in a post-palatial present. Strategies of re-occupation, abandonment, and new settlement in post-palatial Knossos’ (in preparation for publication).

2007

BSA – the Annual General Meeting of Subscribers. London, February 2007. Keynote lecture: ‘Ritual action at the edge of town. The Temple Tomb within the context of Late Bronze Age Knossos and Crete’ (incorporated in monograph Knossos: the Temple Tomb).

University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology, February 2007. Seminar: ‘Spatial and Temporal Variability in Identity and Representation within the Final and Postpalatial (LM II-LM IIIB) Cemeteries of Crete’ (paper submitted for publication).

AIA/APA 108th Joint Annual Meeting January 4-7, 2007 in San Diego, CA.

 Colloquium on ‘Regional and Diachronic Studies on Prehistoric Crete: Mortuary Systems’. Paper: ‘Spatial and Temporal Variability in Identity and Representation within the Final and Postpalatial (LM II-LM IIIB) Cemeteries of Crete’ (in preparation for publication).

2006

University of Cyprus, University of Crete, and the BSA, Conference, Nicosia November 2006 ‘Parallel lives: ancient island societies in Crete and Cyprus’. Paper: ‘Mortuary Practices and Ideology in Bronze-Early Iron Age Crete and Cyprus: Comparative Perspectives’ [in collaboration with Dr. P. Keswani for the comparable discussion of Cyprus] (in preparation for publication).

BSA Upper House Seminar October 2006. Paper: ‘Fragmentation, feasting and structured deposition at the Late Bronze Age Palace at Knossos’ (paper submitted for publication).

10^th Cretological Congress, Khania October 2006. Paper: ‘Ceramic production and consumption at the Neopalatial settlement of Myrtos-Pyrgos’ (in preparation for publication).

10^th Cretological Congress, Khania October 2006. Paper at the Round Table: Feasting and Ritual Depositions in Prehistoric and Geometric Crete’. Paper: ‘Under the floor: structured deposits from cists and pits at the Bronze Age palace at Knossos’ (paper submitted for publication).

INSTAP Study Center for East Crete – Summer Lecture Series 2006. ‘The Temple Tomb within the Context of Palatial and Postpalatial Knossos and Crete’ (incorporated in monograph Knossos: the Temple Tomb)

Danish Institute Athens, Minoan Seminar – May 2006. Same lecture as above.

2005

American School of Classical Studies and the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Conference: STEGA. The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete. Paper: ‘Defining domestic architecture and household assemblages at Late Bronze Age Knossos’ (in press).

BSA – the Friends of the BSA. Lecture: ‘Celebrations of death at ‘Minoan’ and ‘Mycenaean’ Knossos’.

2004

University of Salzburg, SCIEM 2004 – Aegina conference, October 2004. Paper: ‘Pottery groups of the early Neopalatial period at Knossos in the context of Crete and the South Aegean’ (published Hatzaki 2007a).

2003

BSA Upper House Seminars. Paper: ‘Past, current and future directions in the study of Late Bronze Age ceramics from Knossos and Crete’ (in press).

University of Rethimnon, Workshop on ‘Aegean Prehistory at the Start of the 21st Century’, November 2003. Paper: ‘Prospects and limitations in the study of Late Bronze Age ceramics from Crete. The case of Knossos’ (in Greek) (in press).

Italian Archaeological School in Athens, Conference ‘Ariadne’s Threads. Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in the Postpalatial Period (LM IIIA2 to SM)’. Paper: ‘Postpalatial Knossos: town and cemeteries from LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC’ (published Hatzaki 2005b).

TEACHING

University of Cincinnati

• Clas 958 The Aegean: The Archaeology of Prehistoric Knossos. Winter 2008
• Clas 407 & 707 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology. Autumn 2007
• Clas 350 Palaces (and palatial societies) of the Bronze Age Aegean. Spring 2008
• Clas 222 The Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World: Ancient Greece. Winter 2008
• Clas 110 Classical Civilization (Early Greece). Autumn 2007

British School at Athens

• Undergraduate Course, Aegean Prehistory: summer 2004, 2005, 2006
• Undergraduate Course, Greek and Roman Archaeology: summer 2003

College Year in Athens

• The Archaeology of Crete: spring 1997  

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of Cincinnati

• Departmental library committee, 2007-08
• Slide collection committee, 2007-08