Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Classics, 2008, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, Dissertation: Creation Stories: The Archaeological Site of Ayia Irini, Kea and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge. Committee: J.L. Davis, K.M. Lynch, and G. Walberg.
M.A. in Classics, 2003, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, Thesis: Middle Helladic Period in Boeotia: A Study of Social Organization. Advisors: J.L. Davis, G. Walberg.
B.A. in Archaeology and Art History, 1997, University of Athens, Faculty of History and Archaeology.
Academic Positions
Professor of Instruction, The University of Akron, Department of History (7/1/2021 to present)
Professor of Instruction, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology (7/1/2019 to 6/30/2021)
Visiting Professor, Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete (Spring 2020)
Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology (7/1/2017 to 7/1/2019)
Associate Chair, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology (7/1/2017 to 7/1/2018)
Assistant Professor of Instruction, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology and Classical Studies (8/26/2016 to 6/30/2017)
Adjunct Professor, The University of Arizona, Arizona in the Aegean Program (2016 summer season)
Visiting College Lecturer, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology and Classical Studies (8/31/2015 to 5/17/2016)
Senior Lecturer, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology and Classical Studies (8/26/2013 to 5/13/2015)
INSTAP Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) (AY 2012/13)
Distinguished Guest Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Institute for Advanced Study (Spring 2012)
Senior Lecturer, The University of Akron, Department of Anthropology and Classical Studies (8/27/2007 to 12/09/2011)
Distinctions
Quality Matters Certification for Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome course (July 2023) (https://www.qmprogram.org/qmresources/courses/certification_info.cfm?id=42094&program=2 )
Faculty Research Committee for the 2020 Summer Fellowship (no. 1867: $10.000), University of Akron, FY 2020; deferred for summer 2021.
Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP), granted by the Institute of International Education and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Project “Crete and the Aegean islands in the 2nd millennium BC - People, material cultures, ideologies, and the issue of ‘Minoanization’ revisited,” Spring 2020.
Faculty Champion Award (for Experiential Learning), The University of Akron, EX[L] Center, May 3rd, 2019.
Publications
Edited volume
Gorogianni, E., P. Pavúk, and L. Girella (eds.). 2016. Beyond Thalassocracies. Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Reviews
Βλασσόπουλος, Κώστας, in GaR 64.1 (2017), 79. (https://www.academia.edu/36279653/Greek_history_review_of_12_books_ )
Harding, Anthony, in Antiquity 91.355 (2017), 250-253.
Shapland, Andrew, in The Antiquaries Journal; Vol. 98, (Sep 2018): 330-330. DOI:10.1017/S0003581518000136 (https://search.proquest.com/openview/234e82d2919d6e78cc1b42d7aca6071a/1/advanced)
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Gorogianni, E., N. Abell, and J. Hilditch. 2016. “Reconsidering Technological Transmission: The Introduction of the Fast Potter's Wheel at Ayia Irini Kea Greece.” American Journal of Archaeology 120.2, 195-220.
Gorogianni, E. 2013. “Site in Transition: John L. Caskey, Ayia Irini and Archaeological Practice in Greek Archaeology.” Aegean Archaeology 10 (2009-2010), 105-120.
Gorogianni, E. 2011. “Goddess, Lost Ancestors, and Dolls: A Cultural Biography of the Ayia Irini Terracotta Statues.” Hesperia 80.4, 635-655.
Papers in peer-reviewed edited volumes and books
Gorogianni, E. Forthcoming. “Storage and Sociopolitical Complexity in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea (Greece).” In Proceedings of the Third International Cycladological Conference. “The Cyclades through time: Space-People”, Hermoupolis, Syros, 25-29 May 2016, edited by G. Gavalas. (accepted, July 2017).
Gorogianni, E., and N. Abell. Forthcoming. “Insularity and Cosmopolitanism in Ayia Irini, Kea.” In Island, Mainland, Coastland & Hinterland Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Conference at the University of Amsterdam, February 1-3, 2013, edited by Kotsonas, A. and J. Hilditch. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (accepted, September 2014).
Gorogianni, E. and T. Panagou. Forthcoming. “Προϊστορική Καρθαία: Νέα στοιχεία για μια εγκατάσταση της Μέσης Εποχής του Χαλκού στην Κέα και οι συνέπειές της για τον Aιγαιακό κόσμο.” In «Περί των Κυκλάδων νήσων. Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στις Κυκλάδες» Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Συνέδριο, Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, 22-26 Νοεμβρίου 2017. (submitted October 2021).
Davis, J.L., T. Gerke, and E. Gorogianni. 2023. “Excavation and Stratigraphy w/Appendix.” In A Sanctuary in the Hora of Illyrian Apollonia: Excavations at the Bonjakët Site (2004- 2006), edited by J.L. Davis, S.R. Stocker, I. Pojani, and V. Dimo, 33-85. Columbus GA: Lockwood Press. https://www.lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/ebooks/catalog/book/66
Gorogianni, E. 2020a. “Finding oikoi: Ayia Irini, Kea from the household perspective.” In OIKOS. Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the Bronze Age Aegean, edited by J. Driessen and M. Relaki, 257-274. Aegis 19. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
Gorogianni, E. 2020b. “Mobility and Globalization: The View from the Bronze Age Cyclades.” In Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization, edited by A. Kouremenos and J.M. Gordon, 53-88. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Gorogianni, E., N. Abell, and J. Hilditch. 2020. “Keos and Attica in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age.” In Athens and Attica in Prehistory. Proceedings of the International Conference Athens, 27-31 May 2015, edited by N. Papadimitriou, J.C. Wright, S. Fachard, N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, and E. Andrikou, 627-636. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing.
Abell, N.D., and E. Gorogianni. 2019. “The Past in Practice: Craft Producers and Material Culture Change at Ayia Irini, Kea (Poster presentation).” In MNHMH / MNEME. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018, edited by Borgna, E., I. Caloi, F. M. Carinci, and R. Laffineur, 655-658. Aegaeum 43. Leuven: Peeters.
Fitzsimons, R. D., and E. Gorogianni. 2017. “Dining on the Fringe? A Possible Minoan-Style Banquet Hall at Ayia Irini, Kea, and the Minoanisation of the Aegean Islands." In Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment, edited by Q. Letesson and C. Knappett, 334-360. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gorogianni, E., N. Abell, and J. Hilditch. 2017. “Aegean Fusion Cuisine: Ayia Irini, Kea as Cultural ‘Middle Ground.’” In From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, edited by J.A. Hruby and D.A. Trusty, 55-69. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Gorogianni, E. and R.D. Fitzsimons. 2017. “Social Complexity in MBA and LBA Cyclades: A View from Ayia Irini.” In Explaining Change in Aegean Prehistory, edited by C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki, 124-158. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Girella, L., E. Gorogianni, E., and P. Pavúk. 2016. “Introduction.” In Beyond Thalassocracies. Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean, edited by E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella, 1-14. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Gorogianni, E. 2016. “Keian, Kei-noanised, Kei-cenaeanised? Interregional Contact and Identity in Ayia Irini, Kea.” In Beyond Thalassocracies. Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean, edited by E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella, 136-154. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Gorogianni, E., J. Cutler, and R. D. Fitzsimons. 2015. “Something Borrowed, Something New: Possible Archaeological Evidence for Foreign Brides as Catalysts for Acculturation at Ayia Irini, Kea.” In NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration, and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) of Koç University in Istanbul, March 31st - April 3rd 2011, edited by N. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner and K. Kopanias, 853-886. Istanbul: Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) of Koç University in Istanbul.
Gorogianni, E. 2011. “Herrscher der Inseln. Anatomie einer Seefahrergesellschaft (Rulers of the Islands: Anatomy of a Sea-faring Society).” In Kykladen. Lebenswelten einer frühgriechischen Kultur. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Schloss Karlsruhe vom 17. Dez. 2011 bis 22. April 2012, edited by Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 50-57. Darmstadt: Badisches Landen Museum.
Davis, J.L., and E. Gorogianni. 2008. “Potsherds from the Edge: Defining the Limits of Minoanized Areas of the Aegean.” In Ορίζων A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades, Cambridge 25-28 March 2004. McDonald Institute Monographs, edited by N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and, C. Renfrew, 379-388. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Davis, J.L., V. Dimo, I. Pojani, S.R. Stocker, K. Lynch, T. Gerke, and E. Gorogianni. 2006. “Bonjakët Excavations, Apollonia: 2004-2005.” In New Directions in Albanian Archaeology: Studies Presented to Professor Muzafer Korkuti, edited by L. Bejko and R. Hodges, 118-127. International Centre for Albanian Archaeology Monograph Series 1. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Davis, J.L. and E. Gorogianni. 2005. “Embedding Aegean Prehistory in Institutional Practice: A View from one of its North American Centers.” In Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline, edited by J.L. Cherry, L. Talalay, and D. Margomenou, 93-113. Kelsey Museum Publication 2. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Zarinebaf, F., J. Bennet, and J.L. Davis. 2005. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century (with contributions by E. Gorogianni, D.K. Harlan, M. Kiel, P. Mackay, J. Wallrodt, and A.D. Wolpert), Hesperia Supplement 34, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Reviews
Gorogianni, E. 2017. Review of PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU. The pottery from Dhaskalio (The sanctuary on Keros and the origins of Aegean ritual: the excavations of 2006–2008, volume IV). 2016. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research & Oxbow; 978-1-902937-76-2. Antiquity 91 (358), 1105-1107.
Gorogianni, E. 2013. Review of Brogan, T.M. & E. Hallager (eds.), 2011. LM IB Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences. Acts of a Workshop Held at the Danish Institute at Athens in Collaboration with the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, 27-29 June 2007, (2 vols), Athens: The Danish Institute at Athens. http://www.aegeussociety.org/gr/index.php/aegean-book-reviews/lm-ib-pottery- review-by-gorogianni
Papers
Refereed Submissions (2015 to present)
Gorogianni E. and Stephen E. Kaufman 2023. “Maximizing Learner Engagement: Strategies for Encouraging Learner Participation in Online Lectures.” 2023 Higher Ed Quality in Action, Virtual Conference, 28th of April 2023
Gorogianni, E. and S. E. Kaufman. 2022. "Apart but never far away: strategies of increased student engagement and interactivity," The 6th Annual New Explorations in Teaching (NEXT) Conference, Friday, September 30th, 2022.
"Gorogianni, E. and K. Psimogiannou 2021. “Storage in the Prehistoric Aegean: A Diachronic View on Material Dimensions and Social Implications” (Workshop). Panelists: K. S. Christakis, E. Gorogianni, J. Hruby, and K. Psimogiannou; 122nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Virtual Meeting, January 5-10, 2021.
Gorogianni, E. 2020. “The elusive household: Household and wealth in Ayia Irini, Kea.” 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), Austin TX, April 22-26, 2020. – 2020 Meetings canceled.
Gorogianni, E. 2020. “Small World to Big World: Transformations in the Middle Bronze Age Cyclades.” 121st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2020.
Gorogianni, E. 2018. “Finding oikoi: Ayia Irini, Kea from the household perspective.” OIKOS. Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the ancient Aegean. International Workshop organised by AEGIS at the UCLouvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, 6th-7th December 2018.
Abell, N.D. and E. Gorogianni. 2018. “Pottery Production on Late Bronze Age Kea: Organizational Perspectives” 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn, 22 – 26 May 2018.
Abell, N.D., and E. Gorogianni. 2018. “The Past in Practice: Craft Producers and Material Culture Change at Ayia Irini, Kea (Poster presentation)” MNENE 17th International Aegean Conference/17e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Venice and Udine, 17-21 April 2018.
Gorogianni, E., and T. Panagou. 2017. “Prehistoric Karthaia? New Evidence for Middle Bronze Settlement on Kea and Its Implications for the Aegean World.” In Περὶ Τῶν Κυκλάδων Νήσων Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Στις Κυκλάδες. Sur Les Îles Des Cyclades Travaux Archéologiques Dans Les Cyclades. Διεθνές Συνέδριο/ Colloque International, Αθήνα, Βυζαντινό Και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, 22-26 Νοεμβρίου 2017, edited by Ephoreia Archaiotiton Kykladon. Athens.
Gorogianni, E. 2017. “New Evidence for Middle Bronze settlement on Kea.” 117th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Toronto, CA, January 5-8, 2017.
Gorogianni, E. 2016. “Storage and socio-political complexity in Middle and Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini (Kea).” 3rd International Cycladological Conference, Hermoupolis, Syros, May 25-29, 2016.
Gorogianni, E. 2016. “Storage and socio-political complexity in Middle and Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini (Kea).” 'Cycladic Archaeology: New Approaches and Discoveries' Colloquium, 117th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, CA, January 6- 9, 2016.
Gorogianni, E., and N. Abell. 2015. “Keos and Attica in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age.” Athens and Attica in Prehistory International conference Athens, 27-31 May 2015.
Invited Public Lectures (selection, 2015 to present)
Gorogianni, E. 2021. Finding the elusive household in the Bronze Age Aegean, Akron Kent AIA Chapter, September 22nd, 2021.
Gorogianni, E. 2017. “Myths, archaeological facts, and other oddities: The case of cultural contact in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Aegean.” Cincinnati society of the Archaeological Institute of America, March 2, 2011.
Gorogianni, E. 2016. “Myths, archaeological facts, and other oddities: The case of cultural contact in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Aegean.” Oberlin/Wooster society of the Archaeological Institute of America, November 10, 2016.
Gorogianni, E. 2016. “Aspects of Minoanization: New Evidence from the Northern Sector of Ayia Irini, Kea.” The Archaeological Society at Athens, Cycladic Seminar, May 24, 2016.
Fellowships and Awards
Fellowships and Grants for Research Projects
Middle Bronze Age Aegean Trade and Exchange Networks Reappraised (co-directed with Dr. Tania Panagou, Cyclades Ephorate)
· Faculty Research Committee for the 2020 Summer Fellowship ($10.000), University of Akron, FY 2020
· Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2015 New Research Grant ($7,800)
· Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, 2015, (£1,200)
Ayia Irini Northern Sector Archaeological Project (co- directed with Dr. Rodney D. Fitzsimons, Trent University)
· Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2012 Renewal of Research Grant ($20,000)
· Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, 2012, (£1,000)
· Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2011 Renewal of Research Grant ($20,000)
· Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2010 Renewal of Research Grant ($15,000)
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2010-11 (CA$80,000) Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 2009 New Research Grant ($19,960)
Outreach Grants
· 2015 Archaeological Institute of America Outreach Grant for the Akron/Kent AIA Chapter Outreach event “A Sumerian Feast” ($500, with Dr. Timothy Matney)
· 2014 Archaeological Institute of America Outreach Grant for the Akron/Kent AIA Chapter Outreach event “A Taste of Ancient Greece and Rome” ($2,950, with Dr. Timothy Matney)
Post-doctoral Fellowships
· Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP), granted by the Institute of International Education and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Project “Crete and the Aegean islands in the 2nd millennium BC - People, material cultures, ideologies, and the issue of ‘Minoanization’ revisited,” Spring 2020
· Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Post-doctoral Fellow, 2012/13
· Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Guest Fellow, Spring 2012
Pre-Doctoral Fellowships and Grants
· Isabel and Mary Neff Scholarship, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, 2006-07
· Summer Stipends, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, 1999-2007. University Graduate Scholarship, Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, 1999-2006. Louise Taft Semple Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1999-2006
· University Research Council – Summer Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2005 and 2004
· Dorot Foundation Travel Grant Award, Archaeological Institute of America, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America
· Marion Rawson Fellowship, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, 2003 and 2002. Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation, University of Cincinnati, Poster Forum, 7th March, 2003; poster title “Politics and Material Culture Change,” co-authored with Ols Lafe
Teaching Experience
Distinctions
Dr. Gorogianni's Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome has been recognized as:
· "Quality Online Course" by the Online Learning Services and Institute of Teaching and Learning (The University of Akron) - Fall of 2022 (Akron Online Promise Program).
· Quality Matters certified course (July 2023) (https://www.qmprogram.org/qmresources/courses/certification_info.cfm?id=42094&program=2
Classes taught
The University of Akron (8/27/2007 to 12/09/2011 and 8/26/2013 to present).
Study abroad program in Greece (undergraduate, History, Summer 2023)
Ancient Greece (upper division undergraduate class, History)
The Archaeology of Greece (upper division undergraduate class, Archaeology) in a traditional and 100% online setting
The Archaeology of Rome (upper division undergraduate class, Archaeology)
Empires of the Ancient World (gen. ed. undergraduate class, History)
Women in Ancient Greece and Rome (upper division undergraduate class, Classical Studies)
Sports and Games in Ancient Greece and Rome (gen. ed. undergraduate class, Classical Studies) in a traditional and 100% online setting
Medicine and the Humanities (upper division undergraduate class, Classical Studies) in a traditional and 100% online setting
Migrating Home (upper division, undergraduate class, Anthropology)
Archaeological Laboratory Methods (upper division undergraduate class, Archaeology)
Magic, Myth, and Religion (upper division undergraduate class, Anthropology)
Introduction to the Ancient World (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome) (gen. ed. undergraduate class, Classical Studies)
Mythology of Ancient Greece (gen. ed. undergraduate class, Classical Studies)
University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology (Spring 2020)
Minoanization: Crete and the Aegean in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (graduate seminar)
The University of Arizona, Arizona in the Aegean Program (2016 summer season)
Study abroad program (Summer 2016)
University Service
Faculty Senate, General Education Advisory Committee Member (2020-present)
Accessibility Liaison, (2022-present)
Fellowships and Scholarships Scholarship Committee member, Department of History (2021- present)
Fellowships and Scholarships Scholarship Committee Chair, Department of Anthropology (2020- present)
General Education Program Assessment: Leader in Humanities and departmental coordinator (2017-present).
Associate Chair (2017-18); Duties: daily administration of the Department of Anthropology, class scheduling, coordination and writing of program review (November 2017), coordination of faculty meetings, management of departmental fellowships and scholarships, and budgets.
Search committee member: a) Shared Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, September/October 2018; b) Administrative Assistant for the Department of Anthropology and Criminal Justice (September/October 2016).
Departmental committee member: a) Allocation of the Market Compression Component of Merit, b) Merit/RTP guidelines review.
University committee member: a) Global Studies major, planning committee (2018-); b) Center for Experiential Learning (EX[L]) Steering Committee(2019-present).
College of Arts and Sciences Peer Mentor.
Research Supervision
Senior Honors Project Sponsor on Ms. Sarah Meade’s “From Homer to Rome. The Shift from Hero Cults to the Ruler Cults of the Hellenistic World,” The University of Akron (Spring 2023)
Reader (examiner), Ph.D. thesis by Marcia Nugent, “Botanic Motifs of the Bronze Age Cycladic Islands: Identity, Belief, Ritual, and Trade,” University of Melbourne (Spring 2019)
Senior Honors Project Advisor on Ms. Tasha Hunter’s “Typology of Late Assyrian ‘Plain Simple Ware,’” The University of Akron (Spring 2019)