Anastasia Thamnopoulou, M.A.

Research Unit of Islamic Archaeology

Brühler Str. 7

53119 Bonn

Ph.D. Dissertation Project

"The sanjak of Tirhala; tracing and defining local ceramic production in Ottoman Thessaly (15th-19th CE.)"

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker

Education

October 2021-present: PhD Candidate in Islamic Archaeology at the Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
October 2017 - April 2021: M.Α. in Islamic Archaeology, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn. Master Thesis: "The Ottoman tobacco pipes; material evidence of tobacco in Palestine" (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker, Dr. Evrim Binbaş)
February - June 2020: Erasmus Semester, Graduate School of Ottoman Studies, Istanbul Medeniyet University
October 2011 - July 2016: B.A. in Archaeology and Art History, Department of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
April - July 2014: Erasmus Semester, Department of Classical Archaeology & Department of Prehistoric Archeology, University of Cologne

Archaeological Tasks and Work Experience

October 2021: Square supervisor and field work at Madaba Plains Project, Tall Hisban, Jordan (University of Bonn)
April 2018 - January 2020: Student Assistant at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
March 2019: Pottery registrar and field work at Khirbet Beit Mazmil Archaeological and Development Project, Jerusalem (University of Bonn & Israel Antiquities Authority)
June-July 2018: Square supervisor, pottery registrar and field work at Madaba Plains Project, Tall Hisban, Jordan (Andrews University & University of Bonn)
September -October 2016: Field work at The Cambridge Keros Project, Keros Island, Greece, (Cambridge University & Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades Islands)
October 2015: Surveyor at the Southeast Naxos Survey Project, Naxos Island, Greece, (Cambridge University & Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades Islands)
September 2013: Student participant in study of byzantine pottery at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), Crete, Greece, supervised by Prof. Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
August 2013: Field work in Antikythera Island, Greece (26th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Greece)
September 2012: Field work in Tzanata, Kefallonia Island, Greece (35th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Greece)

Conferences

28-29 May 2021: Participant in the 7th International Graduate Conference- ''Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World'', (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University)- Paper title: The materiality of smoking; the Ottoman tobacco pipes of Palestine
8-10 April 2016: Organizing committee and participant in the 4th Panhellenic Conference of Archaeology Students- ''Our Archaeology; Interdisciplinary and social approaches'' (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)- Paper title: The Ottoman hamams of Thessaloniki

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