Evita Kalogiropoulou

Evita Kalogiropoulou is the Principal Investigator of 'BONDS' (2020-2024), an HFRI funded project hosted at the University of Crete (UoC). She was Adjunct Lecturer (2022-2023) at the Department of History & Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, and Postdoctoral researcher of ‘EXPLO’, an ERC funded research project at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology (Cardiff University), and MA in Mediterranean Prehistory (UoC) and a first degree in Archaeology and History of Art (UoC). Evita’s PhD research focused on cooking spaces and their role to the formation of social identities in the Greek Neolithic.  Since 2014 she was involved in many research projects as a postodoctoral fellow, at ‘LAK’ research project (2019-2020) and ‘PlantCult’ an ERC funded research project at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016-2017), and ‘IGEAN’ at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (2014-2015). Evita was an adjunct Lecturer at the School of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly (2018). She has published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, touching upon diverse aspects of Neolithic human histories such as, the formation of social identities, household diversities, cooking practices and commensality, everyday life, settlement variability, workshop practices, habitation in insular environments and connectivity. Her work in this area has helped to reconceptualise aspects of everyday performances in Aegean Neolithic contexts and reproaches space as dynamic and interdisciplinary dialogue in the research field of Neolithic studies. She works as Neolithic specialist of combustion features and spatial studies in various archaeological projects in mainland Greece: Avgi, Dispilio, Makriyalos, Imvrou Pigadi, Kleitos, and Makri.
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Department of History & Archaeology
School of Philosophy
University of Crete
Rethymno
Greece