Dr Nicoletta Momigliano
Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Pisa), MA, PhD (London)
Reader in Aegean Prehistory
School of Humanities Department of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
- 1978-1982: Laurea in Lettere Classiche, University of Pisa
- 1983-1984: MA Institute of Archaeology, University of London
- 1985-1989: PhD, University College London
- 1990-1993: non-stipendiary JRF, Wolfson College and Research Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- 1991 Michael Ventris Award (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London)
- Spring 1992: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
- 1993-1996: Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellow in Aegean Archaeology, Balliol College
- 1996-1998: Lecturer in Archaeology, Dept. of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford
- 1998-Present: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology and Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol
- January 2003: Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Spring 2004: Visiting Fellow, ICEVO (CNR) Rome
- 2005-Present: Deputy Director, Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition
- October 2007-Present: Editor, Annual of the British School of Athens
- February 2008-Present: member of ARCANE (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean), Western Anatolia Group
NM has also organised several international conferences, workshops, and symposia, and has worked on many excavations, surveys, and other archaeological projects in Italy, Crete, Jordan, and Turkey.
In 1993 she co-directed excavations at Knossos, with D.E. Wilson. See N. Momigliano and David Wilson, 1996. ‘Knossos 1993: Excavations outside the South Front of the Palace’, Annual of the British School at Athens 91: 1-59. From 1998-2004 she co-directed (with Prof. M. Benzi and Dr P. Belli) the BACI (Bronze Age Carian Iasos) project, which aims at publishing the Bronze Age discoveries from D. Levi and C. Laviosa’s excavations at this multi-period site.
Since 2008 she has directed the Çaltılar Survey Project (Lycia, SW Turkey), in collaboration with Dr T. Hodos (Bristol University), A. Greaves (Liverpool University), B. Aksoy (Bursa University).
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Çaltılar Team, 2008 |
Collecting Artefacts at Çaltılar, 2008 |
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Aegean Prehistory
- Minoan archaeology, especially the archaeology of Knossos
- History of Aegean Bronze Age studies
- Ceramics
- Bronze Age Anatolia
- Anatolian/Aegean interactions
Nicoletta Momigliano teaching Material Culture to undergraduates
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
N. Karadimas (PhD): The foundations of Aegean prehistory, with special reference to chronology and terminology.
P. Kounouclas (PhD): The Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age coastal settlement of Kynos: architecture, spatial organisation and function.
L. Phillips (MPhil): Aegean Prehistoric Collections in Bristol
Bristol students working at Iasos (2000)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Please see this document for a full list of publications:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/momigliano/nmpublications/
Monographs and edited volumes
N. Momigliano (ed.) 2007. Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan). London: British School at Athens (BSA Studies vol. 14).
Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds.) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’. Special volume of Creta Antica 7, Padua: Ausilio, Bottega d’Erasmo.
See:
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/47523//Location/Oxbow, and/or
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/researchreview/2006/11637627939.html
N. Momigliano, 1999. Duncan Mackenzie: a Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos
at Knossos. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplementary Volume 72, University of London.
Selected as Book of the Month (June 1999) by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock and N. Momigliano (eds.) 1994. Knossos: A Labyrinth of History. Papers in Honour of Sinclair Hood (Oxford: British School at Athens and Oxbow Books)
RECENT ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, ETC.
N. Momigliano, 2006. ‘Sir Arthur Evans, Greek myths, and the Minoans’, in P. Darcque, M. Fotiadis, and O. Polychronopoulou (eds.), Mythos : La Préhistoire Égéenne du XIXe au XXIe Siècle après J.-C. Table Ronde International, Athènes, 21–23 Novembre 2002, Bulletin de Correspondence Hellénique, Suppl. 46. Paris: Ecole Française: 73–80.
N. Momigliano, 2005. ‘Iasos and the Aegean Islands before the Santorini eruption’, in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.) EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference, Athens 14-18 April 2004. AEGAEUM 25; Liège and Austin, Texas: 217-227.
N. Karadimas and N. Momigliano, 2004. ‘On the term “Minoan” before Sir Arthur Evans’s work in Crete (1894)’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo Anatolici XLVI/2 : 243-258.
N. Momigliano, 2002. ‘Federico Halbherr and Arthur Evans: an archaeological correspondence (1894-1917)’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici XLIV/2: 263-318.
N. Momigliano, 2000. ‘Knossos 1902, 1905: the Prepalatial and Protopalatial deposits from the
Room of the Jars in the Royal Pottery Stores’, Annual of the British School at Athens 95: 65-105.
BUNEM PROJECT
The Bristol University Near Eastern and Mediterranean (BUNEM) Collections comprise more than 500 artefacts from the Mediterranean region, providing a useful resource for the study of Mediterranean material culture. An online database/catalogue is available through the CONTACT (Collections Networks for Archaeology and Classics Teaching) web-pages:
http://www.contact.group.shef.ac.uk/vle2/contact2/project.php?p=354