Education 2006-2011 Ph. D. Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

CURRICULUM VITAE
Konstantinos Chalikias

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EDUCATION
2006-2011 Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg: Dissertation: “Settlement patterns and socio-economic change in the Ierapetra region from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman Period. Chryssi Island-a case study”
2000-2005 B.A., M.A., Ruhr-University Bochum: Classical Archaeology (Minor: Prehistoric Archaeology and Ancient History).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Spring 2017 Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Fall 2016 Adjunct Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
2014- Adjunct Professor, Arcadia University (Glenside, PA)
2013- Adjunct Professor, Delaware College of Art and Design (Wilmington, DE)
Adjunct Instructor, Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, PA)
2013-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher (INSTAP Postdoctoral Fellow) at University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology

2009, 2010 Visiting Research Scholar at Temple University, Tyler School of Art

2003-2005 Research- and teaching assistant at the Archaeology Department of Ruhr- University Bochum

COURSES TAUGHT
Art History I: Prehistory to Gothic (Delaware College of Art and Design & Arcadia University)
Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art (Delaware College of Art and Design, University of the Arts & Arcadia University)
Art of Ancient Greece and Rome (Arcadia University)
Art of the Sacred and Profane in the Ancient Greek World (University of Pennsylvania)
Introduction to Classical Archaeology (Chestnut Hill College)
Foundations in the Liberal Arts (Chestnut Hill College)
Introduction to Western Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance (Chestnut Hill College)
Ancient Near-Eastern and Mediterranean World (Chestnut Hill College)
History of Ancient Rome (Chestnut Hill College)
Writing and Literature I & II: Antiquity to Renaissance (Delaware College of Art and Design)
Spring 2017 - Navigating the Labyrinth: Negotiating Cultural Landscapes on the Island of Crete (Global Field Study - Arcadia University)

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
2015 – Co-director of the project: Monitoring of Cultural Landscapes in East Crete by means of UAS in collaboration with G. Cantoro (Leiden University) and C. Sofianou (24^th Ephorate): recording (photogrammetric 3D documentation) of high-risk archaeological sites in East Crete.
2012 – Co-director of the Gaidourophas Research Project in collaboration with Yiannis Papadatos from Athens University, Department of History and Archaeology: excavation, preservation, and publication of a Neopalatial building complex and its surrounding landscape in a mountainous area of southeast Crete.
2010 – Site architect: Study and publication of the Neopalatial architecture from the settlement on Chryssi Island. The project is directed by V. Apostolakou with the collaboration of P.P. Betancourt (Temple University) and T. M. Brogan (Instap Study Center for East Crete).

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
2013 – 2014 Institute for Aegean Prehistory Postdoctoral Fellowship
2010 Richard Seager Doctoral Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs/edited volumes
Under review K. Chalikias, and E. Oddo, eds., Exploring a Terra Incognita: Recent Research on Bronze Age Habitation in the Southern Ierapetra Isthmus, Proceedings of the colloquium held at the 117^th Annual Archaeological Meeting, January 6-9^th 2016, San Francisco, INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia.
2016 K. Chalikias, M. Beeler, A. Pearce, and S. Renette, eds., “The Future of the Past-From Amphipolis to Mosul, New Approaches to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Eastern Mediterranean” Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, April 10-11^th 2015, published in Heritage, Conservation & Archaeology Series (AIA Site Preservation Program).
2013 Living on the Margin: Chryssi Island and the Settlement Patterns of the Ierapetra Area (BAR International Series 2549), Oxford.
Articles/contributions
2015 with G. Cantoro, Endangered Cretan Landscapes: “Using Digital Applications and Geospatial Information for the Recording and Monitoring of Recent Landscape Transformation in Southeast Crete,” in Papadopoulos et al. Proceedings of the 1^st CAA-

GR conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, pp. 229–236.
Chryssi Island: “New Evidence on the Bronze Age Settlement Patterns of the Ierapetra Area,” in S. Cappel, U. Günkel-Maschek, and D. Panagiotopoulos, eds., Minoan Archaeology, Perspectives for the 21^st Century, Proceedings of the International Conference at Heidelberg, 23-27 March 2011, Louvain University Press (AEGIS 8), pp. 37–51.

2013 “The Final Neolithic/Early Minoan I Settlement Patterns in the Southern Part of the Isthmus of Ierapetra,” in P.P. Betancourt et al., Aphrodite’s Kephali: An Early Minoan I Defensive Site in Eastern Crete (Prehistory Monographs 41, INSTAP Academic Press), pp. 41–50.

“Searching for the missing palace: Protopalatial and Neopalatial settlement dynamics

in the Southern Ierapetra Isthmus, The recent evidence,” Aegean Archaeology 10, pp. 33–46.

Under review, with Y. Papadatos, “Minoan Land-Use Patterns and Landscape Transformation in the Mountains of the Ierapetra Area” in Chalikias, K., and E. Oddo, Exploring a Terra Incognita: Recent Research on Bronze Age Habitation in the Southern Ierapetra Isthmus, Proceedings of the colloquium held at the 117^th Annual Archaeological Meeting, January 6-9^th 2016, San Francisco, INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia.

PAPERS PRESENTED/INVITED TALKS
“Heritage under Threat: Using UAV's and geospatial technologies to document cultural sites and landscapes in East Crete, Greece,” lecture at the Arcadia University Faculty Forum, 02.24.2017.
“Sites in Crisis: Documenting and protecting cultural heritage in East Crete, Greece,” lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, 02.19.2016.
“Exploring the Marginal Lands: Investigating Minoan Land Use Patterns and Landscape Transformation in the Mountains of the Ierapetra Area”, paper delivered at the 117th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, 01.07-01.10.2016
“Defining Cultural and Political Entities through Religious Spaces: The Case of Stavromenos Peak Sanctuary in Anatoli, Ierapetra (Crete),” co-authored with Y. Papadatos and Ch. Sofianou, paper delivered at the 116^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, 01.08-01.11.2015.
“Studying patterns of maritime connectivity and offshore island exploitation around Crete during the Bronze Age,” lecture at the New York Bronze Age Aegean Colloquium, Institute of Fine Arts, 11.14.2014.
"Endangered Cretan Landscapes: Using Digital Applications and Geospatial Information for the Recording and Monitoring of Recent Landscape Transformation in Southeast Crete," co-authored with G. Cantoro, paper delivered at the CAA-GR conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), Rethymno, 03.07-03.08.2014.
“Modern Landscape Transformation in East Crete and its Negative Impact on the Cultural and Environmental Heritage: An Archaeological Approach with the Use of Aerial Imagery and Geospatial Data,” co-authored with G. Cantoro, paper delivered at the 115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, 01.02-01.05.2014.
“The Neopalatial Period in the Ierapetra Area: New Discoveries from the Minoan Building at Anatoli, Crete,” co-authored with Y. Papadatos, paper delivered at the 115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, 01.02-01.05.2014.
“Εξερευνώντας την ορεινή Κρήτη: προκαταρκτικά στοιχεία από την ανασκαφή Νεοανακτορικού κτηρίου στην Ανατολή Ιεράπετρας,” co-authored with Y. Papadatos, paper delivered at the 3rd Meeting for the Archaeological Work in Crete, Rethymno, 12.06-12.08.2013.
“Exploring Mountainscapes and Seascapes in Bronze Age Crete: New Evidence for the ‘Colonization’ of Marginal Landscapes from the Ierapetra Area, East Crete,” lecture at the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 04.25.2013.
“Harvesting the Fruit of Seas and Mountains during the Bronze Age, Examining Recent Archaeological Evidence from East Crete for the Exploitation of the Cretan Landscape,” lecture at the Classical Humanities Society of South Jersey, Richard Stockton College, 03.23.2013.
“Exploring Mountainscapes: The Rediscovery and Excavation of a Neopalatial Rural Building Complex at the Site of Gaidourophas, Ierapetra, East Crete,” co-authored with Y. Papadatos, paper delivered at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, 01.03-01.06.2013.
“Chryssi Island: Archaeological Exploration of a Marginal Landscape in Southeast Crete, Greece,” Poster session at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, 01.05-01.08.2012.
“Settlement Patterns in the Ierapetra Region, A Case Study of the Island of Chryssi,” co-authored with V. Apostolakou, paper at the 11^th Cretological Conference, Rethimnon, 10.22.2011.
“Chryssi Island: The importance of a marginal landscape for the settlement history of the Ierapetra area, lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, 04.01.2011.
“Chryssi Island: New evidence on the Bronze Age settlement patterns of the Ierapetra Area”, International Conference: Minoan Archaeology, Challenges and Perspectives for the 21^st Century, Department of Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, 04.23.2011.
“The settlement history of the Ierapetra area, Crete, Greece: The archaeological evidence from Chryssi Island”, lecture at Temple University, Tyler School of Art, 12.01.2010.
“Settlement Patterns in the Ierapetra Region: a Bronze Age Perspective”, lecture at the Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP), 07.13.2007.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Co-organizer, “South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete, from Myrtos to Kato Zakros,” International Conference to be held at Pacheia Ammos (Crete), July 1-2, 2017
Co-organizer, AIA colloquium, 117th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco: Exploring a Terra Incognita: Recent Research on Bronze Age Habitation in the Southern Ierapetra Isthmus, 01.07-01.10.2015
Organizing Committee, conference: The Future of the Past-From Amphipolis to Mosul, New Approaches to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Eastern Mediterranean, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, April 10-11^th 2015

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
2012 – Co-director, excavation of a Minoan building at Gaidourophas, Anatoli, Ierapetra, in collaboration with Yiannis Papadatos, Athens University, Department of History and Archaeology.
2011 Site coordinator, rescue excavation of an LM I Bronze Age site at Bramiana, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).
2008-2010 Trench supervisor, excavation of the Minoan settlement in Papadiokampos, directed by Chryssa Sofianou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities) and Thomas M. Brogan (Instap Study Center for East Crete).

2009-2010 Trench supervisor, excavation of the Minoan settlement in Mochlos, directed by J. Soles (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and K. Davaras.

2009 Site architect, excavation of the Minoan settlement on Chryssi Island, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities), and with the collaboration of P.P. Betancourt (Temple University) and T. M. Brogan (Instap Study Center for East Crete).
2008 Site coordinator, excavation of the Minoan settlement on Chryssi Island, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities), and with the collaboration of P.P. Betancourt (Temple University) and T. M. Brogan (Instap Study Center for East Crete).
2007-2008 Trench supervisor, excavation of the Minoan building in Zominthos, directed by Y. Sakellarakis (Archaeological Society of Athens).
2007 Trench supervisor, rescue excavation of a Roman/Byzantine site in Episkopi-Ierapetra, carried out by the 24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
Trench supervisor, excavation of a Middle Minoan II site at Pefka/Pacheia Ammos, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities), and with the collaboration of P.P. Betancourt (Temple University) and T. M. Brogan (Instap Study Center for East Crete).
Trench supervisor, cleaning and reinvestigation of a LM III tomb (excavated by S. Alexiou) in Pefka/Pacheia Ammos, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).
Trench supervisor, rescue excavation of an EM III rock shelter at the site of Alatsomouri/Pacheia Ammos, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).
2006 Assistant to the directors, excavation of the Minoan building in Zominthos, directed by Y. Sakellarakis (Archaeological Society of Athens) and D. Panagiotopoulos (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg).
Trench supervisor, excavation at the site of Azoria, directed by D.C. Haggis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and M. Mook (Iowa State University).
Trench supervisor, excavation of a Roman cemetery in Ierapetra, directed by V. Apostolakou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).
2005 Trench assistant, excavation at the site of Chalasmenos, directed by M. Tsipopoulou (Director of the Greek National Archive of Monuments).
Excavation workman, excavation at the site of Priniatikos Pyrgos, directed by B. Hayden (University of Pennsylvania Museum).
Trench assistant, excavation at the site of Azoria, directed by D.C. Haggis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and M. Mook (Iowa State University).
2004 Field walker, survey project in the area of Itanos, directed by Ch. Sofianou (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).
2003 Field walker, survey project in the area of Gela/Sicily, directed by J. Bergemann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
2002 Trench assistant, excavation of the Giomelakis plot (Roman), directed by E. Saliaka (24^th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities).

MEMBERSHIPS
2014-present Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (Greece chapter)
2010-present Archaeological Institute of America

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