About

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild has a combined field (academic and CRM) and curatorial background in ancient art and archaeology. She received her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge funded by a merit scholarship at Christ's College. She has been an associate professor in Aegean and Near Eastern art and archaeology at the University of Virginia since 2018, and has taught at the university since 2006. She is the co-editor of the Berghahn International Monographs in Prehistory and serves on the national outreach committee of the Archaeological Institute of America; in the past she also served as assistant director of the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. She has been the recipient of the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies (University of London), an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (ACLS), the award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America), and a Leonard A. Lauder visiting senior fellowship (National Gallery of Art). She specializes in Aegean prehistory (3000-1100 BCE), with broad research interests in value theory and economics, the archaeology of power and the state, ceramic analysis and technology, social aspects of technology and technique, creativity, memory and material culture, emotion and cognition, embodied and multi-sensorial approaches to material culture, the politics of the past, the uses of digital technology in the humanities, and the links between landscape, place and performance. She conducted field work in Thebes in Greece since 1998, where she re-excavated and studied the House of Kadmos site, initially through the Greek Archaeological Service. She has also re-studied the old excavation material from the Theban cemeteries. From 2019-2023 she has been the PI and co-director of the four-year Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project at the site of Aphidna, Greece, deploying conventional and innovative geospatial techniques in landscape analysis. She teaches courses on Aegean prehistory, Egypt, the Near East, the politics of the past, art and cognition, and anthropology/sociology related to antiquity and popular culture. She has directed undergraduate and graduate independent studies and DMP studies on Aegean and Egyptian archaeology, ethno-archaeology, and feminist theory. She has published multiple volumes on archaeology and is currently preparing the publication of her excavations and survey results, as well as working on an exhibition on the links between Egypt and Nubia.

Awards & honors

• Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies (University of L…
• American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (ACLS)
• Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology (Archaeological Inst…
• Leonard A. Lauder visiting senior fellowship (National Galle…
• Fellow of the Archaeological Institute of America

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