Teaching

As a Lecturer (2009-15) and Assistant Professor (2015 ff) at the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Undergraduate Courses

  1. ΙΑ 123: Introduction in the History and Archaeology of the Near East (3rd-1st mill. BC) (e-class: ARCH192). With an optional tutorial about the written sources of this period. Optional course, non seminar.
  2. IA 210: Introduction in the History and Archaeology of Syria and Mesopotamia (3rd-1st mill. BC) (e-class: ARCH268). Optional course, non seminar
  3. ΙΑ 42: Near Eastern Archaeology (e-class: ARCH275). Compulsory specialization course. From the Winter Term 2014/15 this course is going to be offered also as an "Open Course" thought the digital platform: http://opencourses.uoa.gr.
  4. SΑ 25: Acculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (e-class: ARCH207). Optional seminar course.
  5. SΑ 13: Burial customs and the beliefs about the Netherworld in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (e-class: ARCH351). Optional seminar course.
  6. SΑ 14: "State and Oikos". The public and private life in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (e-class: ARCH352). Optional seminar course. 
  7. SA 15: Years of Crisis: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean (e-class: ARCH639). Optional seminar course.
  8. SA 17: Ahhiyawa, Tanaja, Keftiu: The Aegean in Egyptian, Syrian and Hittite Sources (e-class: ARCH470). Optional seminar course.
  9. SA 55: The Palaces of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. (e-class: ARCH558). Optional seminar course.
  10. Introduction in the Hittite Language and Script. (e-class: ARCH642). Tutorial for the undergraduate and postgraduate students.

 Postgraduate Courses

  1. 0902: International Relations in the Near East through the Archives of Hattusha and Amarna (e-class: ARCH208).
  2. 1008: "Crisis Years" and "Dark Ages"? The Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the Near East and the Aegean (e-class: ARCH253).
  3. 1108: The palace of Ereshkigal and Persephone. The image of the Underworld and the burial customs in the Near East (3rd-1st mil. B.C.) (e-class: ARCH320).
  4. Ahhiyawa, Tanaja, Keftiu: The Aegean in the Egyptian, Levantine and Hittite Sources (e-class: ARCH407).
  5. Systems of Economic Administration in the Near East from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (e-class: ARCH522).
  6. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Mesopotamia (e-class: ARCH588).
  7. The "Dark Ages" in the Near East and Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (in cooperation with Dr I. Voskos, e-class: ARCH678).


Supervision of M.A. and Ph.D. students

A. Postgraduate Programme of the Department of History and Arhcaeology of the UoA

  1. Supervisor of 16 M.A. students.
  2. Member in 14 Committees for Master’s Degree Dissertations.
  3. Main supervisor in 8 PhD Dissertations.
  4. Main supervisor in 1 completed PhD Dissertation.
  5. Member in 3 PhD Dissertation Committees (co-supervisor).
  6. Member in 26 PhD Dissertation Examination Committees.
Β. In other Universities
  1. Member in 4 Committees for Master’s Degree Dissertations: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1), University of Crete (1), University of Aegean (2).
  2. Member in 2 PhD Dissertation Committees (co-supervisor): Philipps-Universität Marburg (1), University of Aegean (1)
  3. Member in 2 PhD Dissertation Examination Committees: University of Aegean (2).

Distance Learning

  1. Creation of the Distance Learning Course "Ancient Civilizations of the Ancient Near East" for the Vocational Learning Center of the University of  Athens (2016 ff).
  2. Creation of the Distance Learning Course "Hittite Language and Script" for the Vocational Learning Center of the University of  Athens (2016 ff).
  3. Teaching of the ELP10 module as Adjunct Academic Staff of the Hellenic Open University (2017 ff)

 Lifelong Learning Programme: Higher Education (Erasmus). Teaching Staff Mobility

  1. Teaching at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Cyprus (May 2018)
  2. Teaching at the Department of History of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (June 2010).

 Other Teaching Experience

  1. Lecture at the Diplomatic Academy of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the title: "The Archaeological Research of the University of Athens in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq" (1/6/16).
  2. Participation at the Postgraduate Programme "Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean: Greece, Egypt and the Near East" of the University of the Aegean with two 3-hour courses (January 2016).
  3. Open University Teaching Programme of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens "Trails in History, Archaeology and the History of Art" in two periods: with four 3-hour courses (April and May 2015) and 5 3-hour courses (November and December 2015).
  4. 33rd Training Programme of the Association of Licensed Tourist Guides "Archaeology: new evidence, new excacations, new perceptions in museology" with the lecture "Mycenaean Palacial Centers Throught the Prism of the Near Eastern Texts" (27/2/15).
  5. Training Programme of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens for High School Teachers "Ιστορίης Επίσκεψις", with the lecture: "The History of the Near East in Greek School Books" (2/11/13, 4/10/14 and 3/10/15).
  6. Educational excursion for the participants of course IA42 to the Near Eastern and Egyptian collections of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Department for Near Eastern Archaeology of the German Archaeological Institute and the Department for Near Eastern Archaeology of the Freie Universität (March 2013).
  7. Undergraduate courses as adjunct faculty at the University of Crete (4 semesters: 2006-2008)
  8. Seminar (Übung für Fortgeschrittene) at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Kiel in Germany: “Ex Oriente Lux? Griechenland und der Orient: Beziehungen und wechselseitige Einflüsse von der mykenischen bis zur archaischen Zeit” (winter term 2005/06).
  9. Tutorial courses offered during my post-doc research within the frame of the Programme "Pythagoras I" at the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens (4 semesters, 2004-2007)