Effie Athanassopoulos

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Effie Athanassopoulos

Associate Professor School of Global Integrative Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
OLDH 805
Lincoln NE 68588-0368
Phone
402-472-2411 On-campus 2-2411
Email
eathanassopoulos1@unl.edu

I am a historical archaeologist with interests in landscape, identity formation, material culture, and the role of digital technologies in teaching and research.

Research and Current Projects

Currently, I am working in Greece, with the medieval deposits from the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, a collaboration with the Nemea Center, University of California, Berkeley. I use 3D laser scanning to document the collection, and develop a digital library where the 3D objects can be archived and shared. I am also working with archaeological collections from historic sites in Nebraska, creating new digital resources to facilitate research and public access to Nebraska’s material past.

Nemea Center, University of California, Berkeley

Education

  • Ph.D., 1993, Anthropology Department, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1980-82, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.A.1979, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece

Courses

  • Introduction to Anthropology (Anthropology 110)
  • Archaeology of World Civilizations (Anthropology 252-Classics 252)
  • The Medieval World: Byzantium (Classics 315-History 315)
  • The Classical World: Archaeology and Texts (Classics 320)
  • Old World Prehistory: Archaeology of Europe (Anthropology 438/838-Classics 438/838)
  • Historical Archaeology: Current Topics (Anthropology 431/831)
  • Analysis of Archaeological Materials: Historic Material Culture (Anthropology 487E/887E)
  • Seminar: Archaeology and Cultural Identity (Anthropology 935)
  • Archaeological Field School
  • Archaeological Lab Work

Selected Publications

Monograph

“Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Results of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project.” Nemea Valley Archaeological Project Volume II. American School of Classical Studies Publications, Princeton, NJ. 2016.

Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: An Interview with Effie Athanassopoulos
January 5, 2017 Moira Lavelle

Peer Reviewed Papers

“Medieval Coarse Wares from the Nemea Stadium.” Effie Athanassopoulos and Kim Shelton. Proceedings of the12th International AIECM3 Congress on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics. In Press.

“Archaeological Research in Nemea in the 1970s.” Effie Athanassopoulos and Kim Shelton. Power & Place in the Prehistoric Aegean & Beyond: Festschrift to honor James C. Wright, Bryn Mawr College. Allen, E. Susan, Mireille M. Lee, R. Angus Smith, and Robert Schon (eds.). The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP). In Press.

“The Medieval Countryside: An Archaeological Perspective.” Effie Athanassopoulos. Invited editor, special section in the Journal of Greek Archaeology 5. 2020. http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp? id=%7BB4880A38-CA31-4803-807F-F547326D4EEE%7D

“Introduction: The Medieval Countryside: An Archaeological Perspective.” Effie Athanassopoulos. Journal of Greek Archaeology 5, pp. 366-375, 2020.

“The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project: Late Antique and Medieval Landscapes.” Christian Cloke and Effie Athanassopoulos. Journal of Greek Archaeology 5, pp. 405-424. 2020.

“Archaeological Practice and 3D Modeling: A Medieval Ceramic Assemblage from Nemea, Greece” Effie Athanassopoulos. Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present), edited by Jeffrey B. Glover, Jessica Moss and Dominique Rissolo. Tubingen University Press, pp. 299-307, 2020. https://repositorium.ixtheo.de/xmlui/handle/10900/101779

“UNL Campus Archaeology: Building Digital Resources.” Effie Athanassopoulos, Sara Anderson, Catherine Elliott, Cole Juckette, Amy Neumann, Erik Schultz, Kami Ahrens and Aaron Pattee.

Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) 22, 2017. Published 2019. https://www.chnt.at/unl-campus-archaeology-building-a-digital-resource/ https://www.chnt.at/wp-content/uploads/eBook_CHNT22_Athanassopoulos_.pdf

“3D Modeling applications to terracotta figurines from Plakomenos, Greece.” Dimitra Sarri and Effie Athanassopoulos. Digital Cultural Heritage, Horst Kremers, ed. Springer, pp. 169-182, 2019. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15200-0_12

“Coroplastic Studies Through 3D Technology: The Case of Terracotta Figurines from Plakomenos, Greece” Dimitra Sarri and Effie Athanassopoulos. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation and Protection, Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Brumana, R., Patias, P., Doulamis, A., Martins, J., Wallace, M. (Eds.). Springer, pp. 498-508, 2018.

“The Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, Greece: The Medieval Deposits (12th-13th Centuries A.D.)” Effie Athanassopoulos and Kim Shelton. XIth Congress AIECM3 on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics, 19-24 October, EKIM Antalya 2015, Volume 2, pp. 241-247, 2018. 

“Medieval Glazed Pottery: Archaeological Evidence from Rural Greece.” Invited paper for edited volume Glazed Pottery of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea Region, 10th-18th Centuries. Stratum Publishing House in series “Archaeological Records of Eastern Europe.” Sergei Bocharov and Véronique François, co-editors. Stratum, Archaeological Records of Eastern Europe, Volume 2, pp. 71-90, 2017.

“Ceramics and 3D Technology: A Medieval Assemblage from Nemea, Greece.” Effie Athanassopoulos and Kim Shelton. Digital Heritage 2015 International Conference Proceedings. IEEEXplore Digital Library. 2015.

“Byzantine Monuments and Architectural Cleansing in Nineteenth-Century Athens.” In Héritages de Byzance en Europe du Sud-Est à l'époque moderne et contemporaine. Olivier Delouis, Anne Couderc et Petre Guran, eds. Ecole Française d'Athènes. Pp. 195-218. 2013.

“Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Resettlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Special issue on the “Abandonment and (Re) Settlement of the Post-Classical Countryside in Greece and Albania.”  IJHA 14: 255-270. 2010.

 “Medieval Archaeology in Greece: A Historical Overview.” In Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, W. Caraher, L. Jones Hall, and S. Moore, eds., pp. 15-35. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing. 2008.

Athanassopoulos, Effie and LuAnn Wandsnider, eds. “Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues.” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications. 2004.

 “Historical Archaeology of Medieval Mediterranean Landscapes.” In Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues, E. F. Athanassopoulos and L. Wandsnider, eds., pp. 81-98. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications. 2004.

Athanassopoulos, Effie and LuAnn Wandsnider
“Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology Past and Present.” In Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues, E. F. Athanassopoulos and L. Wandsnider, eds., pp. 1-13. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications. 2004.

“An Ancient Landscape: European Ideals, Archaeology and Nation Building in Early Modern Greece.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 20:273-305. 2002.

Review of “Fauvel: The First Archaeologist in Athens and his Philhellenic Correspondents” by Christoph W. Clairmont, Akanthus, 2007. Published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 131, pp. 301-302. 2011.

Review of “Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground” edited by Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll, 2000, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY. American Antiquity 67(1):182-3. 2002.