Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024–25 Introduction: What is a border? Borders are more than mere geopolitical demarcations. They are dynamic, socially constructed processes, produced, contested, and experienced differently across time and space. In the modern world, borders are often embedded in physical infrastructures—walls, fences, checkpoints. In antiquity, however… Read more
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024–25 Introduction The primary objective of my postdoctoral research, conducted under the auspices of the 2024–2025 CHS Fellowship, is to deepen our understanding of Minoan cooking traditions and to reconstruct the sociocultural dimensions of cooking practices on Crete during the second millennium BC. This… Read more
Introduction During my tenure at the Center for Hellenic Studies, I carried out research related to a book project exploring the impacts of rapid climate change ( sensu Holmes et al. 2011) on Athens during the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition (ca. 1300–700 BCE). The resources of… Read more
My stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies aimed at the completion of a new collection of inscriptions with full linguistic and historical commentary for the Paradeigmata collection (Nancy, Guy Vottéro dir.). This volume, the sixth in the series, fascicle fourth, provides a comprehensive exploration of the Doric-speaking islands of… Read more
Abstract The end of the honorific statue production, after almost 1,000 years, has a large ‘ecology’ of reasons that made the statue habit no longer reasonable, meaningful, or sustainable. There is, however, no comprehensive book-length evaluation that identifies and scrutinizes the multifaceted reasons, certainly none that places cultural changes in… Read more
