Professor Nicoletta Momigliano
Laurea(Pisa), MA (Lond.), Ph.D.(Lond.), FSA
Current positions
Professor of Aegean Studies
Department of Classics & Ancient History
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Research interests
My main field of research is Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, especially Minoan Crete. My research interests include mainstream archaeological work (eg.archaeological field-work and the study of artefacts, especially ceramics), the history of scholarship, and the reception of the Minoans (i.e. modern responses to the material culture of Minoan Crete).
I have directed or co-directed archaeological projects both in Crete and Turkey (Knossos, Iasos, Çaltilar, Eceler, and Palaikastro). I am currently Deputy Director of the excavations at Palaikastro, East Crete (P.I. Professor Carl Knappett, University of Toronto; Environmental Director Dr. Alexandra Livarda, University of Nottingham). I have acted as scientific advisor to museum exhibitions, such as La Grèce des origines : entre rêve et archéologie at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, Châteu Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris,(October 2014- February 2015) and the project 'Heirs to the Throne' at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (ongoing).
Research supervision
I am interested in supervising students who want to explore Aegean Bronze Age topics close to my own research interests (especially themes related to the history of Aegean scholarship, the archaeology of Knossos, the relationship between Crete and Anatolia, the relationship between the Aegean Bronze Age and Classics, etc.). But I also welcome research proposal on other Aegean Bronze Age subjects.
Postgraduate topics I have supervised so far include: Agean Prehistory from the Renaissance to Schliemann; Aegean Bronze Age collections in Bristol; the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age settlement of Kynos; the Myceneanization of Sicily, Southern Italy, Macedonia and Anatolia; the iconography and symbolism of bees in the Near Eastern and Minoan worlds; and modelling the volcanic eruption of Santorini (co-supervision with colleagues in Earth Sciences); Minoan religious symbols.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Heirs to the Throne - Copy and Learn
Role
Other
Description
Research project on the use of replicas in museums and teaching, using in particular the so-called 'Throne of Minos. In 1900, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans excavated an…Managing organisational unit
Department of Classics & Ancient HistoryDates
01/06/2016 to 01/02/2018
la Grece des Origines. Entre reve et archeologie.
Role
Other
Description
Exhibition of Aegean prehistory at the National Archaeological Museum of Saint-Germain- en-Laye, Paris, France.Managing organisational unit
Department of Classics & Ancient HistoryDates
04/10/2014 to 02/02/2015
In search of Ariadne's Labyrinth: the Minoans and their legacy
Principal Investigator
Description
Volume tracing the creation of Minoan Crete and its legacyManaging organisational unit
Department of Classics & Ancient HistoryDates
01/04/2014 to 01/10/2016
Excavations at Beth-Shemesh: Mackenzie's third campaign (November-December 1912)
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
Publication of Duncan Mackenzie's manuscript on his third and final excavation campaign at Ain Shems (Biblical Beth-Shemesh) in collaboration with Shlomo Bunimovits and Zvi Ledermann (Tel Aviv University)Managing organisational unit
Department of Classics & Ancient HistoryDates
08/01/2014 to 08/01/2015
MANIAS: Mouvements D'Art Neo et Influences Archeologiques
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
This is a series of round tables/colloquia on the reception of the material culture of ancient worlds (Minoan, Greek, Byzantine, Etruscan, Thracian) across a number of modern cultural practices (from…Managing organisational unit
Department of Classics & Ancient HistoryDates
18/11/2013 to 31/12/2017
Thesis supervisions
The Image of Priapus
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/06/2019Memory and modern receptions of the Aegean Bronze Age
MNHMH / MNEME, Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age
In Search of the Labyrinth
In Search of the Labyrinth
Minoici a Parigi: memoria e archeologia minoico-micenea nelle pagine di À la recherche du temps perdu di Marcel Proust.
Rhadamantys
Hellenomania
Hellenomania