CONTACT

University of Colorado Boulder
Department of Classics
Boulder, Colorado 80309–0248
Office: (303) 492–8184, Fax: (303) 492–1026
dimitri.nakassis@colorado.edu

EMPLOYMENT

2016–present University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Classics, Professor

2013–2016 University of Toronto, Department of Classics, Associate Professor

2014–2015 University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Classics, Visiting Associate Professor

2008–2013 University of Toronto, Department of Classics, Assistant Professor

2007–2008 The Florida State University, Department of Classics, Visiting Assistant Professor

2006–2007 Trinity University, Department of Classical Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

Degrees

2006                     Ph.D., Classics, The University of Texas at Austin
2000                     M.A., Classics, The University of Texas at Austin
1997                     B.A., Classical Archaeology and Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Non-degree courses

2019 Field School Program on Site Formation, Stratigraphy, and Geoarchaeology, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2003–2004 Regular member, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

RESEARCH

Awards and honors

2024 College Professor of Distinction, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellow

Books

E. L. Bennett, Jr., J. L. Melena, D. Nakassis, J.-P. Olivier, and T. G. Palaima. 2025. The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Volume IV: The Inscribed Documents (Columbus, Georgia: Lockwood Press for the University of Cincinnati). Pp. lxxii, 746. EBook

Reviews: Dickey, CR

D. Nakassis. 2013. Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos, Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 358 (Leiden/Boston: Brill). Pp. xviii, 448.

Edited books

D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James, editors. 2014. KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine. Prehistory Monographs 46 (Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press). Pp. xxii, 314.

Reviews: H. Whittaker, AJA | V. Petrakis, BMCR

Edited journal issues

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson, editors. 2016. “Discussion and Debate: Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1, 61–132.

W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty, editors. 2013. “Forum: Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece,” American Journal of Archaeology 117.3, 413–459.

M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson, editors. 2011. “Forum: Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies,” American Journal of Archaeology 115.2, 175–244.

Journal Articles

J. Hanink and D. Nakassis. 2026. “Rethinking Modern Language Requirements: The Case of Modern Greek,” TAPA 156.2, 239–251.

S.A. James, D. Nakassis, W.R. Caraher, S.C. Gallimore, G. Erny, R. Fernandez, J. Frankl, A. Friedman, M. Godsey, and M. Gradoz. 2024. “Landscape Histories and Terrestrial Networks in the Peloponnese: Results from the Western Argolid Regional Project,” Hesperia 93.1, 145–190.

L. Heath-Stout, G. Erny, and D. Nakassis. 2023. “Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology,” American Journal of Archaeology 127.2, 151–165.

W. Caraher, S. Gallimore, D. Nakassis, and S.A. James. 2020. “Survey and the 7^th century in the Western Argolid,” Journal of Greek Archaeology 5, 377–405.

P.E. Tetford, J.R. Desloges, and D. Nakassis. 2018. “The Potential Relationship Between Archaeological Artifact Exposure and Surface Geomorphic Processes: Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece,” Journal of Field Archaeology 43.7, 538–550.

Caraher, W., R.S. Moore, D. Nakassis, and D.K. Pettegrew. 2017. “Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project: Recent Work at the Site of Pyla-Vikla,” Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyrus 2011–12, 443–459.

P.E. Tetford, J.R. Desloges, and D. Nakassis. 2017. “Modelling surface geomorphic processes using the RUSLE and specific stream power in a GIS framework, NE Peloponnese, Greece,” Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 3.4, 1229–1244.

M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2016. “Introduction,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1, 61–70.

W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty. 2013. “Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction,” American Journal of Archaeology 117.3, 413–422.

D. Nakassis. 2012. “Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King in Mycenaean Pylos,” Hesperia 81.1, 1–30.

D. Nakassis. 2011. “Athens, Kylon, and the Dipolieia,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 51.3, 363–381.

M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2011. “Introduction: Why Redistribution?” American Journal of Archaeology 115.2, 175–176.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson. 2011. “Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective,” American Journal of Archaeology 115.2, 177–184.

T. F. Tartaron, T. E. Gregory, D. J. Pullen, J. S. Noller, R. M. Rothaus, J. L. Rife, L. Diacopoulos, R. L. Schon, W. R. Caraher, D. K. Pettegrew, and D. Nakassis. 2006. “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape,” Hesperia 75.4, 453–523.

W. Caraher, D. Nakassis, and D. Pettegrew. 2006. “Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-Rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 19.1, 7–43.

D. Nakassis. 2004. “Gemination at the Horizons: East and West in the Mythical Geography of Archaic Greek Epic,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 134.2, 215–233.

Book chapters

D. Nakassis. 2025. “The Linear B Tablets,” in The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece, ed. S. R. Stocker, C.L. Lyons, J.L. Davis, and E. Militsi-Kechagia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum), 290–317.

D. Nakassis. 2025. “Seeing Like a Pylian State,” in Power and Place in the Prehistoric Aegean and Beyond: Studies in Honor of James C. Wright, ed. S.E. Allen, R. Schon, and R.A.K. Smith (Philadelphia: INSTAP Press), 145–149.

D. Nakassis. 2025. “Reading Between the Lines: Textual Evidence for Socioeconomic Organization in the Late Bronze Age,” in Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies. Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 24-25 February 2023, ed. D. Pullen (Leiden: Sidestone Press), 21–34.

G. Erny and D. Nakassis. 2025. “Gender and Power in the Practice of Mediterranean Archaeology,” in Ethics in Archaeological Practice (The Annual of the American Society of Overseas Research Volume 78), ed. S.K. Costello and S. Lepinski (Alexandria: American Society of Overseas Research) 29–50.

J. Hruby and D. Nakassis. 2024. “Reduce, reuse, recycle? The clay of the Pylos tablets,” in KO-RO-NO-WE-SA: Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies, September 2021 (Ariadne: The Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete Supplement Series 5), ed. J. Bennet, A. Karnava and T. Meißner (Rethymnon: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete) 545–559.

A. Kanta, D. Nakassis, T.G. Palaima and M. Perna. 2024. “An archaeological and epigraphical overview of some inscriptions found in the Cult Center of the city of Knossos (Anetaki plot),” in KO-RO-NO-WE-SA: Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies, September 2021 (Ariadne: The Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete Supplement Series 5), ed. J. Bennet, A. Karnava and T. Meißner (Rethymnon: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete) 27–43.

D. Nakassis. 2024. “Time and the Other Greeks,” in The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory, ed. K. Blouin and B. Akrigg (London: Routledge) 251–264.

D. Nakassis. 2024. “Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age,” in Models, methods, and morality: Assessing modern approaches to the Greco-Roman economy, ed. S.C. Murray and S. Bernard (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 151–184.

D. Nakassis. 2023. “People like us? Individuals and individualism in the Late Bronze Age Aegean,” in Πολυμήχανος Man of Many Ways: Papers in Honour of Professor Jan Driessen (Aegis 25), ed. C. Langohr and Q. Letesson (Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain) 81–87.

D. Nakassis. 2022. “Communities, ‘houses’ and political organization in the Mycenaean world,” in From House Societies to States: Early Political Organization, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. J.C. Moreno García (Oxford: Oxbow Books) 123–140.

D. Nakassis. 2022. “Unpacking the State of Knossos in LM II-IIIA2,” in One State, Many Worlds: Crete in the Late Minoan II-IIIA2 Early Period (Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici nuova serie Supplemento 2), ed. A.L. D’Agata, L. Girella, E. Papadopoulou, and D.G. Aquini (Rome: Edizioni Quasar) 85–95.

D. Nakassis. 2022. “The Aegean in the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean World,” in The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume III: From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC, ed. K. Radner, N. Moeller, and D.T. Potts (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 623–706.

D. Nakassis. 2021. “Why the periphery should be central to Mycenaean studies,” in Γ’ Διεθνές Διεπιστημονικό Συμπόσιο Η Περιφερεια του Μυκηναικου Κοσμου. Πρόσφατα ευρήματα και πορίσματα της έρευνας. Λαμία, 18–21 Μαΐου 2018 / 3^rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium: The Periphery of the Mycenaean World: Recent discoveries and research results, ed. E. Karantzali (Athens: Ministry of Culture and Sports, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Ephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Evrytania) 21–26.

D. Nakassis. 2021. “The extractive systems of the Mycenaean world,” in Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, ed. J. Valk and I. Soto Marín (New York: NYU Press) 93–127.

W. R. Caraher, D. Nakassis, and I. Antoniadou. 2021. “Roads, Routes, and Abandoned Villages in the Western Argolid,” in Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. R.M. Seifried and D.E. Brown Stewart (Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota) 319–346.

D. Nakassis, K. Pluta, and J. Hruby. 2020. “The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Aegean scripts in the 21^st century,” in New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 27), ed. C.L. Cooper (Leiden: Brill) 161–171.

D. Nakassis. 2020. “Homeric Geography,” in The Cambridge Guide to Homer, ed. C.O. Pache (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 267–277.

D. Nakassis. 2020. “The Economy,” in A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, Volume 1, ed. I. Lemos and A. Kotsonas (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell) 271–291.

D. Nakassis. 2018. “Beauty in clay: Aesthetics and script in Mycenaean Greece,” in Οι Αμέτρητες Όψεις του Ωραίου στην Αρχαία Τέχνη (The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art), ed. Μ. Λαγογιάννη-Γεωργακαράκου (Αθήνα: Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων) 51–56.

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta. 2017. “Vorsprung durch Technik: Imaging the Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14^th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies. Copenhagen, 2–5 September 2015, ed. M.-L. Nosch and H. Landenius Enegren (Roma: Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico) 285–298.

S. Gallimore, S. James, W. Caraher, and D. Nakassis. 2017. “To Argos: Archaeological Survey in the Western Argolid, 2014–2016,” in From Maple to Olive: Proceedings of a Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens, 10–11 June 2016, ed. D.W. Rupp and J.E. Tomlinson. Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece 10 (Athens: Canadian Institute in Greece) 421–438.

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta. 2017. “The Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Odysseys, ed. M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakou (Athens: Archaeological Receipts Fund) 91–96. [=D. Nakassis and K. Pluta (2016) “Οι πινακίδες της Γραμμικής Β Γραφής της Πύλου,” in Οδύσσειες, ed. Μ. Λαγογιάννη-Γεωργακαράκου (Αθήνα – Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων) 91–96.]

D. Nakassis. 2015. “Labor and Individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos,” in Labor in the Ancient World, ed. P. Steinkeller and M. Hudson (Dresden: ISLET-Verlag) 583–615.

W. Caraher, D. Nakassis, and D.K. Pettegrew. 2014. “Intensive Survey,” in Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of An Ancient Coastal Town. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 21, ed. W. Caraher, R.S. Moore and D.K. Pettegrew (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research) 17–47.

J. Gulizio and D. Nakassis. 2014. “The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion,” in KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, ed. D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James (Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press) 115–128.

D. Nakassis. 2013. “Structuration and the State in Mycenaean Greece,” in Agency in Ancient Writing, ed. J. Englehardt (Boulder: University Press of Colorado) 231–247.

J. Englehardt and D. Nakassis. 2013. “Introduction: Individual Intentionality, Social Structure, and Material Agency in Early Writing and Emerging Script Technologies,” in Agency in Ancient Writing, ed. J. Englehardt (Boulder: University Press of Colorado) 1–18.

D. Nakassis. 2012. “Labor Mobilization in Mycenaean Pylos,” in Étudies mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII^e colloque international sur les textes égéens (Biblioteca di Pasiphae 10), ed. P. Carlier, C. De Lamberterie, M. Egetmeyer, N. Guilleux, F. Rougemont and J. Zurbach (Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra) 269–283.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty and W. Parkinson. 2010. “State and Society,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, ed. E. H. Cline (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 239–250.

D. Nakassis. 2010. “Reevaluating Staple and Wealth Finance at Mycenaean Pylos,” in Political Economiesof the Aegean Bronze Age, ed. D. J. Pullen (Oxford: Oxbow Books) 127–148.

D. Nakassis. 2008. “Named Individuals and the Mycenaean State at Pylos,” in Colloquium Romanum, Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di Micenologia, Roma, 20–25 febbraio 2006, ed. A. Sacconi, M. del Freo, L. Godart and M. Negri (Rome: Fabrizio Serra) 549–561.

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta. 2003. “Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling,” in Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, ed. K.P. Foster and R. Laffineur (Liège and Austin: Université de Liège/The University of Texas at Austin) 335–342.

Essays

D. Nakassis. 2024. “On Time, Archaeology, and Greece,” Vassilis Lambropoulos Essay on New Directions in Modern Greek Studies, University of Michigan. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/lambropoulosessays/

Encyclopedia entries

D. Nakassis. 2022. “Linear B,” in The Oxford Classical Dictionary online edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Reports

B. Burke, D. Athanasoulis, Z. Bonias, B. Burns, T. Carter, A. Charami, S. Gallimore, M.J. Haagsma, S. James, S. Karapanou, D. Nakassis, A. Papadimitriou, J.Y. Perreault, and L. Surtees. 2021. “Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in 2018,” Mouseion 18.2, 255–284.

D.W. Rupp, T. Carter, D. Athanasoulis, A. Charami, B. Burke, B. Burns, A. Papadimitriou, S. Gallimore, D. Nakassis, S. James, Z. Bonias, J.Y. Perreault, S. Karapanou, and M.J. Haagsma. 2020 [2021]. “Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2017,” Mouseion 17.2, 395–416.

D.W. Rupp, Z. Bonias, J.Y. Perreault, A. Charami, B. Burke, B. Burnes, T. Carter, D. Athanasoulis, D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, S. James, S. Karapanou, M. Haagsma. 2019. “Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in 2016,” Mouseion 16.2, 343–364.

D.W. Rupp, Z. Bonias, J.Y. Perreault, A. Charami, B. Burke, B. Burnes, T. Carter, D. Athanasoulis, D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, S. James, S. Karapanou, M. Haagsma, L. Surtees. 2018. “Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in 2015,” Mouseion 15.2, 297–319.

D.W. Rupp, T. Carter, A. Charami, B. Burke, B. Burns, Z. Bonias, J.Y. Perreault, D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, S. James, S. Karapanou, M.J. Haagsma. 2017. “Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2014,” Mouseion 14.2, 173–195.

Manuals

W. Caraher, G. Erny, A. Friedman, S. Gallimore, M. Godsey, M. Gradoz, S. James, S. Steinke, and D. Nakassis. 2020. Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), Field Manual: 2014–2016 Seasons. (tDAR id: 458238); doi:10.6067/XCV8458238

Reviews

D. Nakassis. 2023. Anna Magdalena Blomley, A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC). Abdingdon: Archaeopress, 2022. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2023.05.12

D. Nakassis. 2023. Raphael Greenberg and Yannis Hamilakis, Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In The Journal of Modern Greek Studies 41, 149–151.

E. Mackil and D. Nakassis. 2018. Julien Zurbach, Les hommes, la terre et la dette en Grèce, c. 1400–c. 500 a.C. (2 vols.). Scripta antiqua, 95. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2017. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.08.06

D. Nakassis. 2016. Eric H. Cline, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. In Mouseion 13, 153–155.

D. Nakassis. 2015. Richard Hope Simpson, Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (Prehistory monographs 34). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2014. In The Journal of Hellenic Studies 135, 261–262.

D. Nakassis. 2015. Barbara A. Olsen, Women in Mycenaean Greece: The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos. New York/London: Routledge, 2014. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.03.45.

D. Nakassis. 2013. Walter Gauß, Michael Lindblom, R. Angus K. Smith, and James C. Wright, eds. Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. In American Journal of Archaeology 117.2.

D. Nakassis. 2012. Yannis A. Lolos, Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State. Hesperia Supplement 39. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. In Classical Journal Online 2012.11.06.

D. Nakassis. 2011. Bryan E. Burns, Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. In Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 1, 82–85.

D. Nakassis. 2010. Françoise Rougemont, Contrôle économique et administration à l’époque des palais mycéniens (fin du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.) (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 332). Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2009. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.09.14

D. Nakassis. 2010. Hedvig Landenius Enegren, The People of Knossos: Prosopographical Studies in the Knossos Linear B Archives (Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Easter Civilizations 30). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2008. In Journal of Hellenic Studies 130, 249–250.

D. Nakassis. 2009. R. Drew Griffith, Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Lanham, Maryland 2008). In Canadian Journal of African Studies 43.3, 593–596.

D. Nakassis. 2009. Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies, editors, A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 1, Louvain-la-Neuve 2008. In Classical Review 39.2, 327–329.

D. Nakassis. 2008. Philip Betancourt, The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory, Princeton 2006. In Mouseion 8.2, 290–293.

D. Nakassis. 2008. Michael Galaty and William Parkinson, editors, Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II. Revised and Expanded Second Edition, Los Angeles 2007. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.07.57

D. Nakassis. 2007. John Heath, The Talking Greeks, Cambridge 2005. In Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 17.1, 142–144.

D. Nakassis. 2002. Sofia Voutsaki and John Killen, editors, Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palace States, Cambridge 2001. In Minos 35–36 (2000–2001 [2002]) 499–502.

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS

“Imaging, analysis, and publication of the Linear B tablets from Pylos”

Institute for Aegean Prehistory (D. Nakassis and K. Pluta): $5,000 (2017), $15,000 (2015), $12,000 (2014), $10,000 (2013)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communication and Information grant (co-director of project; co-PIs K. Pluta and J. Newhard): $50,000 (2013)
Loeb Classical Library Foundation (D. Nakassis and K. Pluta), $34,376 (2013)

“Western Argolid Regional Project”

Institute for Aegean Prehistory: $4,000 (2017), $8,690 (2016), $10,800 (2015), $8,680 (2014)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (D. Nakassis and S. Gallimore): $160,842 CAD (2015)
Loeb Classical Library Foundation: $17,300 (2012)

“Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project”

Institute for Aegean Prehistory (D. Nakassis and W. Caraher): $5,960 (2010), $12,585 (2009), $10,632 (2008)
Mediterranean Archaeological Trust (D. Nakassis and R.S. Moore): £1,500 (2008)
Curtiss T. and Mary G. Brennan Foundation (D. Nakassis and W. Caraher): $3,000 (2007)

FELLOWSHIPS and INTERNAL GRANTS

2026 University of Colorado Boulder, Arts & Humanities Faculty Research, Creative Work, and Professional Development Award, $2,695

2025 University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Humanities and the Arts, Faculty Fellowship

2025 University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Humanities and the Arts, Small Grant, $1,569

2024 University of Colorado Boulder, Research and Innovation Office Arts & Humanities Grant, $5,898

2023 University of Colorado Boulder, Kayden Research Grant, $960

2023 University of Colorado Boulder, Research and Innovation Office Arts & Humanities Grant, $2,619

2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, $60,000

2015 University of Toronto, Archaeology Centre Summer Research Funds, $2,950 CAD

2014 University of Toronto, SSHRC Institutional Grant, $661.12 CAD

2014 University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science Bridge Funding, $5,000 CAD

2014 University of Toronto, SSHRC Institutional Grant, $1,183.32 CAD

2013 Michael Ventris Memorial Award, Institute of Classical Studies, £2,000 GBP

2013 University of Toronto, SSHRC Institutional Grant, $2,000 CAD

2012 University of Toronto, SSHRC Institutional Grant, $1,500 CAD

2011 University of Toronto, SSHRC Institutional Grant, $763.04 CAD

2009 University of Toronto, Norwood Travelling Fellowship, Department of Classics, $4,000 CAD

2008 University of Toronto, Start-Up Award, Department of Classics, $5,000 CAD

2008 University of Toronto, Connaught Start-Up Award, $10,000 CAD

2007 The University of Texas at Austin and University Co-op, Outstanding Dissertation Award, $3,000

2005–6 The University of Texas at Austin, William S. Livingston Fellowship, $19,000

2003–4 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Heinrich Schliemann Fellowship, $8,840

INVITED TALKS

2026 “The Mycenean World and the Homeric Epics,” An Epic Afternoon: The World of Homer Revealed, Royal Ontario Museum, 1 November

2026 “The temporality of the Mycenaean landscape: wanax ideology and settlement hierarchy revisited,” Annual meeting lecture of the Aigeus Society for Aegean Prehistory, 18 June

2026 Fordyce Mitchel Lectures, History, University of Missouri, “’At Mycenae the gods once walked the earth’: The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Age Civilization,” “Against bureaucracy: palace and community in Late Bronze Age Greece,” “Against periodization: the trap of Greek history,” and “Against culture: assemblages and the Mycenaean world,” 6–9 April

2025 “Aegean archaeology in North American Universities,” Centro di archeologia cretese, University of Catania, 24 October

2024 “New approaches to Linear B inscriptions: digital documentation and material analysis,” Aegean Bronze Age Seminar, University of York, 12 April

2024 “Towards a post-cultural archaeology of Late Bronze Age Greece,” Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), 6 March

2023 “Double tap? Deconstructing and refashioning our disciplinary categories,” Brown University, 1 February

2022 “Killing Mycenaean civilization and reassembling the Aegean Bronze Age,” New York University, 17 October

2022 “Broken ropes: the past and future of Mycenaean studies,” University of Cincinnati, 3 October

2022 “The emergence of the Hellenic race: Greek prehistory and modern scientific racism,” The Academy of Athens, 12 May

2022 “Time and the other Greeks: the problem of periodization in Greek (pre)history,” University of Vienna, 10 May

2022 “‘The most richly imagined fabrics of the past’: Breaking categories and reassembling ancient worlds,” David F. Grose Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 7 April

2022 “From the plain to the mountain: insights into the western Argolid from archaeological survey,” Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, 1 February

2020 “Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece,” Brunilde S. Ridgway lecture, AIA Puget Sound, 20 November

2020 “Map is not territory: culture history and archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Department of Classics, University of Washington, 19 November

2020 “‘not in any significant or proper sense… Greek’: Orientalism and the Mycenaeans,” Everyday Orientalism, 13 November

2020 “Back Through the System… Again: Taking Apart the Aegean Bronze Age,” The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University/AIA Vancouver, 16 October

2019 “The World Before Odysseus: Rethinking the History of Late Bronze Age Greece,” Lee lecture, The College of William and Mary, 17 October

2019 “Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age: Homeric Heroes, Near Eastern Potentates, or Something Else?” Mylonas lecture in Classical art and archaeology, University of Missouri St. Louis, 6 October

2019 “How Greek were the Mycenaeans? Excavating the Bronze Age past of Greece,” Argyropoulos lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, 14 April

2018 “Seeing like a Mycenaean state,” C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 26 October

2018 “Before coins and cabotage? The prehistory of the Greek economy,” Elizabeth Hunter lecture, Department of Classics, Florida State University, 16 October

2018 “Deciphering the age of heroes: Texts, archaeology and legends of Bronze Age Greece,” 10^th John Charles lecture, Wabash College, 1 October

2017 “Telling stories from laundry lists: Linear B and Mycenaean histories,” Department of Classics, Stanford University, 1 May

2017 “These aren’t the Mycenaeans we’re looking for,” Nemea Center Seminar, University of California Berkeley, 21 March

2017 “Doing archaeology in a digital age: challenges and opportunities,” The futures of Classical antiquity symposium, Smith College, 4 March

2016 “Unthinking the Mycenaeans: towards a new history of the Late Bronze Age Aegean,” Aegean Seminar, University of Zagreb, 5 April

2016 “Vorsprung durch Technik: digital technologies, archaeology, and the future of Aegean scripts, Aegean Seminar, University of Zagreb, 5 April

2016 “Deconstructing and reconstructing the Mycenaean world: text, history, and archaeology,” Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 31 March

2016 “The Mycenaeans in Greek History: Orientalism and Master Narratives,” British School at Athens, 29 February

2016 “Seeing like a Mycenaean state: the people of Pylos and Knossos,” Department of Classics, Cambridge University, 18 February

2016 “Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century,” Mycenaean Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 17 February

2016 “From types to relations: complicating the economic history of the Greek Late Bronze Age,” Canadian Institute in Greece, 27 January

2014 “Cities and Thrones and Powers: Rethinking the End of Mycenaean Civilization,” Open Meeting of the Canadian Institute in Greece, 14 May

2012 “Rethinking Mycenaean Society,” The University of Chicago, Interdisciplinary Archaeology and Ancient Societies Workshops, 26 April; Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, 11 May

2010 “Apocalypse or Liberation? Narratives of Collapse in the Greek Late Bronze Age,” Ontario Aegean Archaeology Day at the ROM, Toronto, 6 March

2009 “When did the Greeks first come to Cyprus?” Cypriot Archaeology Day at the ROM, Toronto, 6 December

2009 “Under the Sceptre of Agamemnon? Economy, Archaeology and Texts in Mycenaean Greece,” The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Classics, 12 November

2008 “Where’s the Beef? Agency, Archaeology and Linear B,” Stanford Archaeology Center Workshop, 4 December

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2026 D. Nakassis, “ Ὅπως ἡμεῖς περίπου: Modern Analogies and Analogical Arguments in Tsountas,” NESTOR: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis. XXIst International Aegean Conference/ XXIe rencontre égéenne internationale, Athens, 8 June

2026 D. Nakassis, “Weaving beyond the palace: Towards a sociology of textile production in the Bronze Age Aegean,” Weaving and Community: Perspectives from the Past and Present / Υφαντική και Κοινότητα: Προοπτικές από το Παρελθόν και το Παρόν, Kardamyli, 1 May

2025 D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and B.B. Wilemon, Jr., “70 years after The Pylos Tablets: new light on the techne of their production,” “The Mycenaean World” 37 years later: On the research paths of Katie Demakopoulou, Athens, 11 October

2025 D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and B.B. Wilemon, Jr., “New developments in Pylian epigraphy,” 16th Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Madrid, 3 September

2024 D. Nakassis, “One script, one kingdom? Exploring and explaining the heterogeneity of Linear B,” AIA, Chicago, 5 January

2023 D. Nakassis, “Reading between the lines: textual evidence for socioeconomic organization in the mature Late Bronze Age,” Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies, the Spring 2023 Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 24 February

2022 D. Nakassis, “Before cabotage? Interregional exchange in the Late Bronze Age,” Nostoi II. Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea + Inland Routes from the Early Bronze to the End of the Early Iron Ages, Athens, 11 November

2021 D. Nakassis, “Before the economy?” Morality and Models: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Ancient Economy, Toronto, 6 November

2021 S. James, D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, and W. Caraher, “In the Shadow of Argos: The Western Argolid Regional Project (2014–2016),” Γ’ Διεθνής Επιστημονική Συνάντηση «Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Πελοπόννησο», Kalamata, 4 June 2021

2020 B.B. Wilemon, Jr., M. Galaty, and D. Nakassis, “Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Analysis of the Pylos Linear B Tablets,” AIA, Washington, DC, 3 January

2020 S.C. Murray, C. Pratt, R.P. Stephan, M.C. McHugh, G.K. Erny, K. Psoma, B. Lis, M. Godsey, M. Nazou, D. Nakassis, and P. Sapirstein, “The 2019 Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) Project: New Evidence for the Archaeology of the Bay of Porto Raphti,” AIA, Washington, DC, 4 January

2019 D. Nakassis, “The Innocence of Facticity: ‘Mycenaean’ Knossos in its Aegean Context,” One State, Many Worlds: Crete in the Late Minoan II-IIIA2 Early Period, Khania, 22 November

2019 D. Nakassis, S. James, S. Gallimore, and W. Caraher, “The Medieval Countryside at a Regional Scale in the Western Argolid and Northeastern Peloponnesus,” AIA, San Diego, 5 January

2018 D. Nakassis, “Why the ‘periphery’ should be central to Mycenaean studies,” 3^rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium, The Periphery of the Mycenaean World: Recent discoveries and research results, Lamia, 18 May

2017 S. Gallimore, W. Caraher, S. James, and D. Nakassis, “On the Banks of the Ancient Streams of the Inachos: The Western Argolid Regional Project, 2014–2016,” AIA, Toronto, 8 January

2016 D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, S. James, and W. Caraher, “To Argos: Archaeological survey in the Western Argolid, 2014–2015,” From Maple to Olive: A Colloquium to Celebrate the 40^th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens, 11 June

2016 S. James, D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, and W. Caraher, “The Western Argolid Regional Project: Results of the 2015 Season,” AIA, San Francisco, 8 January

2016 D. Nakassis, W. Caraher, S. James, S. Gallimore, and I. Antoniadou, “Roads, Routes and Abandoned Villages in the Western Argolid,” AIA, San Francisco, 8 January

2015 D. Nakassis, S. James, S. Gallimore, “The Western Argolid Regional Project: Results of the 2014 Season,” AIA, New Orleans, 9 January

2014 M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson, “Introduction to Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange,” AIA, Chicago, 3 January

2014 D. Nakassis and K. Pluta, “Digital imaging of the Linear B tablets from the “Palace of Nestor,” AIA, Chicago, 3 January

2013 D. Nakassis, “Livin’ in a New World: Elite Strategies during the Mycenaean Collapse,” SAA, Honolulu, 6 April

2012 D. Nakassis, “Performing Kingship in Mycenaean Pylos,” AIA, Philadelphia, 7 January

2012 W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty, “Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece,” AIA, Philadelphia, 7 January

2011 D. Nakassis, “Think Globally, Act Locally? Interpreting Ritual Performance in Bronze Age and Classical Greece,” Archaeology of Performance, Toronto, 18 March

2011 D. Nakassis, “Building a Better Model of Mycenaean Society,” AIA, San Antonio, 7 January

2010 D. Nakassis, “Labor in Mycenaean Pylos,” 13th International Colloquium on Aegean Texts, Paris, 23 September

2009 D. Nakassis, “Structuration and the state in Late Bronze Age Greece,” SAA, Atlanta, 26 April

2009 D. Nakassis and W. Parkinson, “Redistributive Economies in Theoretical and Cross-cultural Perspective,” AIA, Philadelphia, 10 January

2007 D. Nakassis, “Financing the State in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age, Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 24 February

2007 D. Nakassis, “The Individual as an Analytical Category for the Integration of Archaeological and Textual Data,” AIA, San Diego, 7 January

2006 D. Nakassis, “Individuals and the Mycenaean State at Pylos,” XII Colloquio Internazionale di Micenologia, Rome, 24 February

2006 D. Nakassis, “Agency and the Mycenaean State,” AIA, Montréal, 7 January

2005 D. Nakassis, “Labor and Individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos,” International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies, Hirschbach, Germany, 2 May

2005 W. Caraher, D. Nakassis, and D. Pettegrew, “Siteless Survey And Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-Rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Korinthia, Greece,” SAA, Salt Lake City, 1 April

2005 D. Nakassis, “Prosopography and the State in Mycenaean Greece,” APA, Boston, 9 January

2005 D. Nakassis, “Craft Specialists and the Mycenaean State: The Case of the Pylian Bronze-Smiths,” AIA, Boston, 8 January

2003 D. Nakassis, “Murder, Pollution, and Expiation in the Kylonian Conspiracy and the Dipolieia,” APA, New Orleans, 6 January

2002 J. Gulizio and D. Nakassis, “The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion,” Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Austin, 4 April

2002 D. J. Pullen, T. F. Tartaron, R. M. Rothaus, D. Nakassis, A. Dill, “Patterns in the Later Prehistory of the Eastern Korinthia,” AIA, Philadelphia, 5 January

2002 D. Nakassis, “Semi-rational Geography and Eschatological Gemination in Homer,” APA, Philadelphia, 4 January

POSTERS

2015 Z. Bartholomew, J. Newhard, N. Levine, K. Pluta, and D. Nakassis, “The Development of a Legacy GIS for the Contextualization of the Linear B Deposits from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos,” AIA, New Orleans, 9 January

2014 J. Baxley, B. Rennison, J. Newhard, K. Pluta, and D. Nakassis, “The Use of Structured Light Scanning for the Study of the Linear B Deposits from Pylos, Messenia, Greece,” AIA, Chicago, 3 January

WORKSHOPS and COLLOQUIA

2025 Co-panelist with Yannis Hamilakis, “Falling in the gap between the ‘Minoans’ and the ‘Mycenaeans,’ Getty Museum, 8 December

2023 Panelist, “What counts? MacArthur Fellows Reflect on Academic Reward Structures,” American Council of Learned Societies, 12 September

2023 Respondent, “State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterranean,” Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 14–15 April

2022 Panelist, “Archaeologists of Color Roundtable,” WCC Archaeology Series, 3 March

2022 Panelist, “Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity,” WCC Pedagogy Pop-Up Event, 22 February

2021 Respondent, “Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Current and Future Perspectives,” AIA, 6 January

2018 Panelist, “Funding Sources and Grant Writing,” AIA, Boston, 6 January

ORGANIZED SESSIONS

2024 K. Shelton, E.M. Greene and D. Nakassis, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) in Archaeology and the AIA,” AIA, Chicago, 6 January

2024 D. Nakassis and S. Vitale, “The Mycenaean Koine in Context: Disentangling Material Uniformities in the Aegean Late Bronze Age,” AIA, Chicago, 5 January

2020 D. Nakassis, “Teaching Race and Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean,” AIA Webinar, 19 August: https://www.archaeological.org/webinar-2/

2019 J. Hanink and D. Nakassis, “Modern Greek Programs in Classics Departments: Historical Perspectives, Present Challenges, and Future Prospects,” MGSA, Sacramento, 8 November

2018 D. Pullen, D. Nakassis, and L. Rahmstorf, “Entrepreneurs and Merchants in the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Mediterranean,” EAA, Barcelona, 7 September

2014 D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson, “Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange,” AIA, Chicago, 3 January

2012 W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty, “Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece,” AIA, Philadelphia, 7 January

2009 M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson, “Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies,” AIA, Philadelphia, 10 January

DEPARTMENTAL PAPERS

2017 “Mycenaean histories,” Faculty work in progress seminar, 20 October

2012 “Orientalism and Master Narrative in Greek (Pre)history,” Work in Progress Seminar in Ancient Greek and Roman History, 18 October

2008 “Murder, Pollution and Expiation in the Kylonian Conspiracy and the Dipolieia Festival,” Work in Progress Seminar in Ancient Greek and Roman History, 6 November

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

2025 “Art Break: What People Wrote in the Late Bronze Age,” Getty Museum, 14 August (with Hana Sugioka)

2022 “The Mycenaeans and the origins of Hellenism,” AHEPA Denver lodge, 2 March

2021 “Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code: Linear B and its Decipherment,” Mary McClanahan Lecture, 15 April

2021 “Map is not territory: culture history and archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age,” AIA Denver, 30 January

2017 “Linear B workshop,” Oberlin College, 7 March

2016 “‘The Greeks’: Archaeology Uncovered,” National Geographic Museum, 14 September

2015– “Rethinking the Mycenaean World,” Western Illinois Society of the AIA (Augustana), 29 September 2015; Ann Arbor Society of the AIA, 30 September 2015; Southern Pennsylvania Society of the AIA, 3 November 2016

2015– “Apocalypse Then: The Collapse of the Bronze Age World,” McClanahan Lecture, 28 January 2015; Central Pennsylvania Society of the AIA, 2 November 2016; Lincoln/Omaha Society of the AIA, 29 January 2017; Cleveland Society of the AIA, 8 March 2017

2014– “The Road Less Traveled By? History, Archaeology, and Landscape in Southern Greece,” Boulder Society of the AIA, 19 February 2014; Western Illinois Society of the AIA (Monmouth), 28 September 2015; Nemea Center Lecture/San Francisco Society of the AIA, 20 March 2017; “History, Archaeology, and Landscape in Southern Greece: the Western Argolid Regional Project,” International Archaeology Day, Boulder Society of the AIA, 24 October 2015

2013– “Digitizing prehistory: Aegean script in the 21^st century,” Niagara Society of the AIA, 17 November; Lincoln/Omaha Society of the AIA, 30 January 2017; Boulder Society of the AIA, 30 October 2019

2010 “Archaeology and (un)deciphered scripts in Bronze Age Greece,” The Practice of History Today: A conference for high school students interest in history (sponsored by the Department of History in partnership with the Toronto District School Board), 30 April

2009 “Homer and History,” The Practice of History Today: A conference for high school students interest in history (sponsored by the Department of History in partnership with the Toronto District School Board), 16 April

2008– “Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece,” Toronto Society of the AIA, 22 October; Rochester Society of the AIA, 17 November 2011; Buffalo Society of the AIA, 18 November 2011; University of North Dakota, 25 October 2012; Boulder Society of the AIA, 15 November 2012; Denver Society of the AIA, 18 January 2015

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK

2025–2026 Keros Project: excavator, trench supervisor

2019 Bays of East Attica Regional Survey: drone photographer

2017–present Fortifications of the Western Argolid: co-director

2013–present Pylos Tablets Digital Project: co-director

2011–present Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP): co-director

2006–2010 Pyla Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP): co-field director, trench supervisor

2003, 2006–2007 Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP): trench supervisor

2004–2005 Corinth Excavations: trench supervisor

1999–2002 Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS): field walker (1999), team leader (2000–2002)

2000–2001 Iklaina Archaeological Project (IKAP): team leader

1997 Greek Archaeological Service (8^th ephorate of prehistoric and classical antiquities [Kerkyra], 20^th ephorate of prehistoric and classical antiquity [Mytilene]): trench supervisor

1996 Petras Excavations: trench supervisor

1995 Leptiminus Archaeological Project: student volunteer

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses taught

Undergraduate

Ancient History and Archaeology:

Aegean Bronze Age Art and Archaeology (S25, S23, F20, F18, F16)
Ancient Greece and Rome (History) (S07)
Archaeology of Religion (F24, S19, S17)
Archaic and Classical Greece (History) (S07)
Early Greece/Mycenaean and Archaic Greece (F09, F12)
Greek Art and Archaeology (S26, F07)
History of Greek Religion (F08)
Introduction to Greek History (F14, S13, F11, F10, F08)
Iron Age Greece (S18)
Religion in the Bronze and Iron Ages (S08)
Religion in the Greek World (S12)

Classical Civilization:

Classical Mythology (S22, S20, S17, S15)
Homer and the Age of Heroes (F09)
Method and Theory in Classics (S14)
Modern Issues Ancient Times: Race and Antiquity (F24, F22, S21, F18, S18)
Theories of Myth (S11)

Greek:

First-year Greek (S08)
Intermediate Greek (S12, S11, S09)
Euripides (S07)
Homer (F16)
Plato (F14)
Xenophon (F13)

Latin:

First-year Latin (F01, S02)
Intermediate Latin (S05, F06)
Readings in Latin Poetry (S08)

Graduate

Aegean Bronze Age Art and Archaeology (S25, S23, F20, F18, F16)
Archaeology of Religion (F24, S19, S17)
Greek Religion: Space, Place, Practice (S10)
Herodotus and his Intellectual World (S14, F10, F07)
Iron Age Greece (S18)
Landscape archaeology (S26)
Linear B (Summer 23, S20, F07)
The Mycenaean World (F13)
Plato (F14)
Politics and Society in Archaic Greece (S13)
Religion in the Bronze and Iron Ages (S08)
Withdrawal, Return and Revenge in Greek Epic (F16, F11)

Graduate supervision

Symeon Gkinoudis (Science and Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, The Cyprus Institute): dissertation committee, Aegean Bronze Age Agricultural Economy: archaeobotanical macroremains and isotopic analysis from the Greek mainland, 2024–present

Theodore Nash (Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan): dissertation committee, Mycenaean Writing in Context: Regionalism and the Palace at Mycenae and Thebes, 2026

Taylor Stark (Classics, University of Toronto): external examiner of dissertation, The Smith and the State: Relationships between Metal Production and the Mycenaean Palaces in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, 2026

Zach Cooper (Anthropology, CU Boulder): dissertation committee, Northern Rio Grande Resistance to the Chaco World, 2025

Sophie Cushman (Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, University of California Berkeley): dissertation committee, Death and Taxes: Mortuary perspectives on non-palatial communities in the Mycenaean Argolid (ca. 1600–1070 BCE), 2025

Rebecca Sanders (Classics, University of Arizona): MA thesis committee, A Rehabilitation of Homer and Linear B: Points of Connection between Anax/Wanax, Potnia, and Temenos, 2023

Robert Weiner (Anthropology, CU Boulder): dissertation committee, “It Shows My way”: An archaeology of roads, religion, and power in the Chaco world, 2020–2023

Ophélie Mouthuy (Histoire, histoire de l’art et archeologie, Université Catholique de Louvain): PhD thesis jury, external member, L’entrée nord du palais de Cnossos: Étude interdisciplinaire ‘un dépôt de tablettes en Linéaire B, 2020

Pascale Meehan (Anthropology, CU Boulder): dissertation committee, Collapse as constrained possibility: Rural action at early Postclassic Monte El Santo following the Rio Viejo Political Collapse, 2020

Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin (Anthropology, CU Boulder): dissertation committee, Human-environment interactions in the lower Rio Verde valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: The impacts of ecological change on settlement patterning (1800 BCE-CE 1522), 2020

Paula Gheorghiade (Art, University of Toronto): comprehensive exam committee, 2013; dissertation committee, A network approach to cultural interaction and maritime exchange on Crete during the Late Minoan II-IIIB period, 2020

Jeffrey Brezinski (Anthropology, CU Boulder): dissertation committee, Terminal formative religion and political organization on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico: The perspective from Cerro de la Virgen, 2019

Samantha Mills (Ancient history, Macquarie University): MA thesis examiner, From wanax to βασιλεύς: A consideration of the development of the wielding of Greek power and authority from the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age, 1400–800 BC, 2019

Theodore Nash (Classical Studies, Victoria University of Wellington): MA thesis examiner, Creta Capta: Late Minoan II Knossos in Mycenaean History, 2017

Rachel Kulick (Art, University of Toronto): comprehensive exam committee, 2013; dissertation committee, Urban Soil Micromorphology at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete: A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation Processes, 2017

Jody Cundy (Classics, University of Toronto), major field committee, 2008–12; dissertation committee, THEAS AXION: Wonder, Place and Space in Pausanias’ Periegesis Hellados, 2016

Yuriy Lozynsky (Classics, University of Toronto): internal examiner, Ph.D., Ancient Greek cult hymns: Poets, performers and rituals, 2014

Jessica Higgins (Classics, University of Toronto), major field committee, 2010–11; dissertation committee, From Fleet to Foot: An Analysis of Odysseus’ Pedestrian Journeys in the Odyssey, 2014

Laura Gagne Campbell (Art, University of Toronto): internal examiner, Ph.D., Middle Cypriot White Painted Ware: A Study of Pottery Production and Distribution in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus, 2013

Laura Mawhinney (Classics, University of Toronto), dissertation committee, Sympotic and Rhapsodic Discourse in the Homeric Epics, 2012

Timothy Perry (Classics, University of Toronto), internal examiner, Ph.D., Exile in Homeric Epic, 2010

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2026 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Nominating Committee for Secretary of Managing Committee

2026–present Archaeological Institute of America, Vice President of Research and Academic Affairs

2026–present American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Committee on Equity, Diversity, Access, and Inclusion

2025–present Editorial board, Athens Studies in Aegean Scripts and Administrations

2024–present Advisory board, Mediterranean Archaeology

2020–present Committee on digital approaches, Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes, co-chair

2020–2023 Program for the Annual Meeting Committee, Archaeological Institute of America

2019–2023 Mentoring program, Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus

2019–present Editorial board, Cambridge World Archaeology

2019–present Research and Academic Affairs committee, Archaeological Institute of America; co-chair of Diversity sub-committee, 2020–present

2017–2020 Membership committee, Modern Greek Studies Association

2017–2018 Website oversight committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2016–2026 Editorial advisory board, American Journal of Archaeology

2016–2021 IT committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; chair, 2017–2019

2015–2025 Felicia A. Holton Book Award Committee, Archaeological Institute of America; chair, 2019–2025

2015 Nominating committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2015–present Advisory board, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

2015–2020 Editorial board, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2015–present Committee on éditions et instruments du travail, Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes, co-chair

2011–2014 President, Toronto chapter, Archaeological Institute of America

2008–2014 Executive committee, Toronto chapter, Archaeological Institute of America

2011–2015 Committee on Admissions and Fellowships, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2010–present Managing committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2012–2016 Board of directors, Canadian Institute in Greece

Journal reviewer: American Journal of Archaeology, Archaeologies, Bulletin for the Institute of Classical Studies, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Cambridge Classical Journal, Classical World, Current Anthropology, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Hesperia, Heritage, Historia, Journal of Archaeological Research, Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Kleos, Mediterranean Archaeology, Mnemosyne, Mouseion

Manuscript reviewer: Brill, Cornell University Press, INSTAP Academic Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, University Press of Florida

Grant reviewer: European Research Council, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Poland), National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands)

External departmental review: University of California Berkeley, Department of Greek and Roman Studies (2025), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department of Classics (2022)

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of Colorado Boulder

Campus

Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis, Institute for Behavioral Studies, selection committee, 2022
Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2019–2021
Research & Innovation Office advisory board, 2018–2019
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 2016–2019
Boulder Faculty Assembly Library Committee, 2016

College, Division

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences search committee, 2026–2027
Center for the Humanities and the Arts, steering committee, 2026–
Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences search committee, 2026
Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, 2024–present; chair, 2025–present
Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee, 2024–present
Arts and Humanities Divisional Council, chair, 2021–2023
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences search committee, 2021
Kayden Research Grants committee, 2018–2021

Department

Department chair, 2020–2023
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 2016–2017
Executive committee, 2016, 2018–2019, 2020–2023, 2024–2025
Award nominations committee, 2016–2018, 2020–2023
Graduate studies committee, 2016–2019, 2020–2023
Undergraduate Studies committee, 2019–2023
Lecture committee, 2020–2023
Library committee, 2020–2023
Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellowship departmental committee, 2019; chair, 2017–2018, 2020
Classical art & archaeology curriculum committee, 2016–present
Fountain Symposium Committee, chair, 2017–2018
Inclusive Excellence Committee, 2017–2018
McClanahan Essay Prize Committee, 2017–2018, 2020–2023, 2024–2026
Program fee (Academic Program Allocations) co-coordinator, 2016, 2020–2021
Scholar-in-residence search committee, chair, 2018, 2020
Website committee, 2016–2018, 2020–2023, 2024–2025 (chair, 2024–2025)

University of Toronto

Graduate examinations committee, 2011–2014
Recording secretary, 2012–2014
Departmental representative, Canadian Institute in Greece, 2012–2014
Archaeology Centre director search committee, 2012–2013
Archaeology Centre advisory committee, 2012–2016
Placement officer, 2011
Graduate committee on admissions, scholarships and standing, 2010–2011
Undergraduate program review committee, 2009–2010
Public relations committee, 2009–2010
Library and Resources committee, 2008–2012