Urban archaeology in the 21st century

Dimitris Plantzos

Dimitris Plantzos is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied history and archaeology at Athens and got his Master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on Greek art and archaeology, archaeological theory, and modern receptions of classical antiquity.

Platon Petridis

Platon Petridis is Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a bachelor from the University of Athens, an MA and a PhD from Paris I- Panthéon- Sorbonne. He is an ancient Fellow of the French School of Archaeology at Athens. He is a specialist of Early Byzantine architecture and pottery. He is the director or co-director of archaeological excavations at Delphi, Thassos and Kapandriti.

Yiannis Papadatos

Yiannis Papadatos is Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied history and archaeology at Athens and got his PhD degree at the University of Sheffield (UK). His is conducting archaeological fieldwork projects in Marathon and Crete, and his research focuses on archaeology of death, ancient technology and fieldwork methodology and practice.

Giorgos Vavouranakis

Giorgos Vavouranakis is Associate Professor of Prehistoric Aegean at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied history and archaeology at Athens and got his Master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on Minoan Crete, archaeological theory and the history of the archaeological discipline.

Konstantinos Kopanias

Konstantinos Kopanias is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied history and archaeology at Athens and got his Master’s degree at the University of Salzburg and his PhD degree at the Universities of Tübingen and Athens. His research focuses on Eastern Mediterranean archaeology.

Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos

Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; in 1996 he got his PhD on the architecture of classical and Hellenistic Kea at the same institution. He has worked on archaeological sites in Jordan and Greece. He currently teaches Greek and Roman Architecture in the Department of History and Archaeology and runs a number of research projects in Athens, Boeotia and the Peloponnese.

Marlen Mouliou

Marlen Mouliou is Assistant Professor of Museology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied history and archaeology at Athens and got her Master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on museum history, museum archaeology, urban museology and generally on the social value and transformative power of museums.