School of Archaeology
Professor Maria Stamatopoulou
Doctoral supervision
I am happy to supervison topics on Greek archaeology and art, in particular funerary archaeology, archival archaeology, iconography, painting, terracottas, domestic space, material religion. I specialize on mainland Greece, in particular Thessaly and Macedonia during the first millennium BCE.
Current students
| Hellenistic Mouldmade Relief Bowls in Thessaly Anna Dalgkitsi | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
| Sacral Landforms in Western Anatolia (600 BC - AD 300) Serra Somersan | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Maria Stamatopoulou and Joshua Thomas |
| Conceptions of Childhood in Ancient Thessaly: A diachronic analysis of the funerary assemblages of children (Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic Period) Kristen Millions | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
| Thracian Chamber Tombs (5th-2nd Centuries BC) Blagovesta Atanassova | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
Past students
| The Hellenistic Terracottas from Demetrias Stylianos Ieremias (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
| Gilded wreaths from the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods Rosemary Jeffreys (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Maria Stamatopoulou and Chris Doherty |
| A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400-146 BC) Anna Blomley (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
| Macedonian Urbanism? Cities, public building, and the character of political space in Macedonia, ca. 350-150 BC Martin Gallagher (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
| The Making of Philip's Macedonia: the archaeology of the Macedonian kingdom from the Persian Wars to the fall of Perdiccas III (c.510-359BC) Laura Laslett (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou |
Key words: archives, domestic space, excavations, pottery, material, religion, gender and identity, Thessaly, Macedonia, Classical-Greek, eastern Mediterranean, Europe, mortuary practices, iconography