EDUCATION
2003 – 2007
University of Oxford, St John’s College, DPhil in Classical Archaeology
Dissertation: “Villae expolitae on the bay of Naples: aspects of the architecture and culture of Roman country houses (c. 100 BCE – 79 CE)”
2002 – 2003
University of Oxford, St John’s College, MSt in Classical Archaeology
2000 – 2002
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, MA Design Studies (with distinction) in History and Theory of Architecture
1993 – 2000
National Technical University of Athens, BA/MA in Architecture and Engineering
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2018 –
University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman architecture and urbanism
2015 – 2018
University of Birmingham, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Birmingham Fellow and Lecturer in Classical Archaeology
2007 – 2008
University College London, Institute of Archaeology
Temporary Lecturer in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
2006 – 2007
European College of Liberal Arts, ECLA of Bard College in Berlin
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
2002
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Teaching Fellow
FELLOWSHIPS
Spring 2026
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
NEH Fellow (funding rescinded by the government, funded by ASCSA)
01.2023 – 05.2023
Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study
Member
11.2023 – 12.2023
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Wissenschaftliche Abteilung der Zentrale
Invited Research Scholar
06.2013 – 05.2015
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquity (ΚΕΡΑ)
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF)
01.2013 – 05.2013
Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies
09.2012 – 12.2012
Getty Research Institute
Getty Scholar
06.2010 – 05.2012
Universität zu Köln, Archäologisches Institut
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
06.2009 – 05.2010
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Visiting Research Scholar
06.2008 – 05.2009
Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI Excellence Cluster
TOPOI Junior Research Fellow
06.2006 – 07.2007
Herculaneum Society
Research Fellow
03.2005 – 04.2005
UCLA, Experiential Technologies Centre
Research Fellow
— last updated on January 12, 2025 —
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