KOSTIS KOURELIS

4246 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected]

EDUCATION

L.M.S. Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies 2006 Pontifical Institute, University of Toronto

Ph.D. Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World 2003 College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: “Landmarks of Rural Archaeology: Medieval Settlements in the Northwestern ”

M. Arch. Master’s in Architecture 1993 School of Design, University of Pennsylvania Thesis: “Chester, Pa.: Reading the Post-Industrial City”

B.A. Architecture, Philosophy, minor in Classical Studies 1990 College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Thesis: “Immanuel Kant and Gottfried Semper: Purposiveness in Nature and Nineteenth-Century Architectural Theory”

TEACHING

Franklin and Marshall College, Assistant Professor 2009- Clemson University, Assistant Professor 2003-2008 Connecticut College, Visiting Assistant Professor 2008-2009 Wesleyan University, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Lecturer 2009 State University of New York, New Paltz, Lecturer 2006 Swarthmore College, Visiting Assistant Professor 2002-2003 Arcadia University, Lecturer 2002 University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer 2001-2003

AWARDS

Stanley J. Seeger Fellow, Princeton University 2007 John Forsyth Memorial Award, Archaeological Institute of America 2007-2008 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pontifical Institute, University of Toronto 2004-2005 National Endowment of the Humanities, Summer Grant 2004 Alison Frantz Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at 1999-2000 Dean’s Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 2000-2001 Penfield Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 1999-2000 First Prize in Architectural Theory, University of Pennsylvania 1993 Dale's Traveling Prize, University of Pennsylvania 1992 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society 1990 Magna Cum Laude 1990 Philadelphia Mayor’s Scholarship 1986

PUBLICATIONS

1 “Closing the Window on Cavafy: Foregrounding the Background in the Photographic Portraits,” C. P. Cavafy Forum, Modern Greek, University of Michigan, April 15, 2013, electronic publication.

“Byzantine Houses and Modern Fictions: Domesticating in 1930s ,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65 & 66 (2011–2012), pp. 297-331.

“Zaraka Surrounded: The Archaeology of Settlements in the Peloponnesian Countryside,” in The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece, ed. Sheila Campbell (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012), forthcoming.

“The Immigrant Liturgy: Greek Orthodox Worship and Architecture in America,” with Vasileios Marinis, in Liturgy in Migration: Cultural Contexts from the Upper Room to Cyberspace, ed. Teresa Berger (Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 2012), pp. 155- 175.

“Religion in the Byzantine Countryside,” in Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, ed. Ann Marie Yasin and Richard Etlin (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), forthcoming.

Colors of Greece: The Art and Archaeology of Georg von Peschke (Lancaster: Phillips Museum, 2012), exhibition catalog.

“Splitting Architectural Time: Gómez + González Holmesburg Prison Project,” in Doing Time/Depth of Surface: Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González (Philadelphia: Philagrafika, 2011), essay in exhibition catalog.

“In the Comfort of Perpetual Abandonment,” in The Abandoned Countryside: (Re)Settlement in the Archaeological Narrative of Post-Classical Greece, ed. Kostis Kourelis and William R. Caraher, The International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14:2 (June 2010) pp. 209-214.

“The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek-American Material Culture, 1873-1924,” in Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, ed. Linda J. Hall, William R. Caraher, and R. Scott Moore (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 411-453.

“From Greek Revival to Greek America: Archaeology and Transformation in Saint George Orthodox Cathedral of Philadelphia,” in The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture, ed. Kostis Kourelis, New Griffon 10 (2008), pp. 28-36.

“Architectural Survey and 3-D Reconstruction of the Cistercian Abbey of Zaraka in Ancient Stymphalis: 2007 Field Report,” with Joseph D. Alchermes and Anthony Masinton, Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 8, no. 2 (2008), p. 264.

“Anthemios of Tralleis,” “Isidoros the Younger,” “Isidoros of Miletos,” “Iulianus of Askalon,” “Khruses of Alexandria,” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs, ed. Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) pp. 90-91, 442-444, 449, 473-474.

“Byzantium and the Avant-Garde: Excavations at Corinth, 1920s-1930s,” Hesperia 76 (2007), pp. 391-442.

2 “Early Travelers in the Peloponnese and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History,” in The Architecture of Tourism: Perceptions, Performance and Space, ed. D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004), pp. 37-52. Spanish edition (Barcelona: Gustavo Gill, 2006).

“Urban Legend: Architecture in Lord of the Rings,” with Steven Woodward, in From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, ed. Murray Pomerance and Ernest Mathijs (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 189-214.

“The Rural House in the Medieval Peloponnese: An Archaeological Reassessment of Byzantine Domestic Architecture,” in Archaeology in Architecture: Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, ed. Judson J. Emerick and Deborah Deliyannis (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2005), pp. 119-129.

Houses of the : Vernacular Architecture of the Northwest Peloponnesos (1205-1955), with Frederick A. Cooper, Helen B. Foster, Mary Coulton, and Joseph D. Alchermes (Athens: Melissa Publishing House, 2002). Reviewed by Alexandra Koroxenidis, Greece in Print 176 (January 2003), pp. 12, 31.

EDITED VOLUMES

Beyond Icons: Theory and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), with William R. Caraher. Book proposal accepted. Contributing essay, “Surveying Byzantium and Cartographic Hegemony.”

The Abandoned Countryside: (Re)Settlement in the Archaeological Narrative of Post-Classical Greece, ed. Kostis Kourelis and William R. Caraher, special issue, The International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14:2 (June 2010).

The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture, ed. Kostis Kourelis, special issue, New Griffon 10 (2008). Reviewed, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews (2010), no. 2010.06.12.

BOOK REVIEWS

Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece, ed. Siriol Davies and Jack L. Davis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies (forthcoming)

A Singular Antiquity: Archaeology and the Hellenic Identity in the Twentieth Century, ed. Dimitris Damaskos and Dimitris Plantzos, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2010) no. 2010.01.43.

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, by Robert Ousterhout, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66 (2007), pp. 395-397.

Housing in Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece by Eleftherios Sigalos, The Medieval Review (May 8, 2005).

After Antiquity by Joanita Vroom; Traditional Pottery and Potters in Cyprus by Ioannis Ionas, American Journal of Archaeology 109 (2005), pp. 330-332.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

3 “Discipline and Rigor: Excavating Byzantine Greece,” New Discoveries from Old Excavations, ed. Betsey Robinson, (Möhnesee: Bibliopolis Verlag).

“Architecture,” in Excavations in the South Region of Chersonesos, 2001-2006: A Multidisciplinary Approach, ed. Adam Rabinowitz, Larissa Sedikova and Paul Arthur (Austin: University of Texas).

“The Walls of ,” with Demetris Athanasoulis, Archaiologikon Deltion.

“Georg von Peschke: Art into Archaeology,” Hesperia.

Medieval Village Architecture in the Northwestern Peloponnese, (American School of Classical Studies Publications, Princeton), book manuscript.

INVITED LECTURES

“The Membrology of Home: Notes from the Archaeological Underground,” keynote speaker and respondent, “Home: Departure and Destination,” Bryn Mawr College, Ninth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium, Oct. 4, 2013

“Radical Byzantium: Modernism and Archaeology in Greece,” Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Art at Lunch lecture series, Feb. 20, 2013

“Radical Byzantium: Modernism and the Corinth Excavations,” Program in Modern Greek Studies, Brown University, Oct. 25, 2012.

“Soft Walls: Byzantium’s Other Architecture,” Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Group, Archaeology Lunch Series, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 28, 2012.

“‘This Will Kill That’: The Mason and Our Crisis of Representation,” Masons at Work: Architecture and Construction in the Premodern World, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 2012.

“Byzantine Archaeologies: Archaeology and the Academy: Comments,” in Conversations on Byzantine Archaeology in North America II: The Role of the American Overseas Research Center,” Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., January 14, 2012.

“Byzantine Archaeology as Critical Practice: North American Institutional and Attitudinal Issues,” Byzantine Archaeology in North America: Conversations in Archaeology, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., April 10, 2010.

“Deflating Mystras: Grounding House and Settlement,” Morea: The Land and Its People in the Aftermath of the , Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2009.

“Radical Byzantium: American Archaeology in Greece between the Wars,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., November 17, 2008.

Keynote speaker, “The Legacy of Byzantium: Exploring the Divine Images of the Orthodox Faith,” University of North Carolina, Asheville, N.C., March 13, 2008.

4 “Byzantium and Modernity,” 2007-2008 George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America, Athens, Ga., Asheville, N.C., Springfield, Oh., Cleveland, Oh., Philadelphia, Penn., 2007-2008.

“The Discovery of Byzantine Corinth,” New Discoveries from Old Excavations, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, March 24, 2007.

“Byzantium and Modernity: Corinth’s Archaeological Avant-Garde ca. 1930,” Ohio State University, May 23, 2007.

“Medieval Art in a Productive Context,” Stanford University, May 12, 2005.

“Town and Country: The Archaeology of Crusader Greece,” Archaeological Institute of America, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, February 2, 2005.

“Beyond Style in the Medieval Mediterranean,” Wellesley College, March 15, 2005.

“The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece and Sicily,” Archaeological Institute of America, University of North Carolina Asheville, March 24, 2004.

“Flowers in the Fields of Nestor: Recent Work in Medieval Archaeology,” University of Minnesota, February 1, 2000.

“Medieval Settlements in the Northwestern Peloponnese,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, May 25, 1999.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“The Lidoriki Project: A Historical Topography,” with Miltiadis Katsaros and Todd Brenningmeyer, Sixth Annual Congress, Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin, Athens, Greece, Oct. 25, 2013.

“Ruskin’s Greek Shadow: The British School in Athens and the Byzantine House,” “Byzantine Influences on the Arts & Crafts Movement,” Byzantium and British Heritage Conference 2013, King’s College, London, U.K., Sept. 6, 2013.

“Labo(u)r, Settlement, and Resources Extraction: Man Camps of the Bakken Oil Patch in Historical and GlobaL Perspective,” with William R. Caraher, Bret Weber, Richard Rothaus, Aaron Barth and John Holmgren, Midwest Association for Canadian Studies Conference, Grand Forks, N.D., Oct. 5-6, 2012.

“Spade and Palette: Bohemian Archaeology in Greece,” Peloponnesian Studies: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Frederick A. Cooper on the Occasion of His Retirement, University of Minnesota, December 18, 2010.

“The Immigrant Liturgy: Greek Orthodox Worship and Architecture in America,” Liturgy in Migration: Cultural Contexts from the Upper Room to Cyberspace, Yale University, February 24, 2011.

“Fleshing Out the Byzantine House,” 36th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Philadelphia, October 10, 2010, BSC Abstracts 36 (2010), pp. 117-118.

5 “The Archaeology of Immigration: Material Culture and the Greek Diaspora,” roundtable discussion, Notes from the Field: Working in/on the Hellenic Diaspora, 21st Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 16, 2009.

“The Sacred Grip: Landscape, Art and Architecture in Mount Menoikeion (19th-20th Centuries),” with Nikolas Bakirtzis and Matthew Milliner, 21st Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 17, 2009.

“From Greek Revival to Greek America: Archaeology and Transformation in Saint George Orthodox Cathedral of Philadelphia,” 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, January 6, 2008.

“Beyond the Text: Archaeological Narratives from the Peloponnesian Countryside,” Between Crusaders and Byzantines: The Medieval Morea (13th – 15th Centuries), Princeton University, May 18, 2007.

“Sacred Topography and the Byzantine Village,” 31st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Athens, Ga., October 29, 2005, BSC Abstracts 31 (2005), pp. 50-55.

“Reading the Landscape: History vs. Science,” Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, February 3, 2005.

“From East to West – From High to Low: The Archaeology of the Frankish Peloponnese,” Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 14, 2004.

“Fabrics and Rubble Walls: The Archaeology of Danielis’ Gifts,” 30th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Baltimore, October 30, 2004, BSC Abstracts 30 (2004), pp. 26-28.

“Beyond Palaeochora: Locating the Byzantine Period on Aegina,” 105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 6, 2004.

“The Byzantine House: Evidence from Rural Greece,” 104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, January 5, 2003.

“Early Travelers in Greece and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History,” 90th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Philadelphia, February 22, 2002.

“The Medieval Countryside of the Northwestern Peloponnesos, Greece: Strategies of Analysis and Documentation,” 103rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, January 4, 2002. American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002), p. 245.

“House and Village in the Northwestern Peloponnese: The Archaeology of a Medieval Countryside,” 26th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Cambridge, Mass., October 27, 2000, BSC Abstracts 26 (2000), pp. 92-93.

“Gabriel Millet's L’École grecque: Its Origins and its Legacy,” Conference on the Historiography of Medieval Architecture in the Balkans, Princeton University, May 16, 1998.

6 “The Vernacular Architecture of the Northwestern Peloponnese,” with Helen B. Foster, Congrès international d’architecture balkanique traditionelle, , Greece, November 9, 1997.

EXHIBITIONS

Curator, Colors of Greece: The Art and Archaeology of Georg von Peschke, Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College (January 17-March 1, 2012), and Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College (March 21-May 30, 2012). Reviewed by Philadelphia Inquirer (March 30, 2012).

Curator, Houses of the Morea, The Gennadeion Library, Athens, Greece (May 21–August 15, 2002); Museum of Frankish Antiquities, , Greece (August 17, 2004–July 17, 2007).

Co-curator, Settlements of Eleia, Pyrgos Archaeological Museum, Greece, with Todd Brenningmeyer and Frederick A. Cooper (forthcoming).

Consultant, Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 23–July 4, 2004.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

“From Idea to Building: Ancient and Medieval Architectural Process,” 65th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historian, Detroit, Mich., April 20, 2012.

“First Out: Late Levels at Early Sites,” with Sharon E. J. Gerstel, 111th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America Anaheim, Cal., January 10, 2010.

“City, Village, Monastery: The Archaeology of Modern Greek Landscapes,” 21st Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Vancouver, October 17, 2009.

“The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture,”109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, January 6, 2008.

“The Abandoned Countryside: (Re)Settlement in the Archaeological Narrative of the Post-Classical Mediterranean,” 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, Cal., January 5, 2007.

“Material Worlds: Acquisition, Circulation, and Meaning in Colonial Societies” Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, referee, 2002.

“Archaeology Lunch” lecture series, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Gropu, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-1997, 2001-2002.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS

The Lidoriki Project in Historical Topography, co-director 2010- Eleia Mapping Archaeological Project, Greece, co-director 2010- Lidoriki Project in Historical Topography, Greece, co-director 2010- Clemson Glarentza Archaeological Project, Greece, director 2004-2008 Cistercian Abbey Architectural Survey, Stymphalis, Greece, co-director 2007 Excavations at Chersonesos, Ukraine, architectural specialist 2005-2007

7 Morea Project, Greece, co-director 1993-2001 Medieval Mortars Geological Project, Wiener Labs, Athens, co-director 1999 Mount Menoikeion Seminar, Greece, field supervisor 2005-2009 Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project, medieval specialist 2007-2010 Monte Polizzo Excavations, Sicily, Islamic specialist and excavator 2003-2005 Ancient Sikyon Survey, York University & Volos University, supervisor 2004-2005 Corinth Excavations, American School, Greece, supervisor 1999-2000 Jerba Archaeological Survey, Tunisia, project architect and supervisor 1996-1999 Corinth Computer Project, intern 1993-1994

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOLS

Franklin & Marshall Field School in Vernacular Archaeology, Greece, director Connecticut College, Stymphalis Field School, co-director Clemson University, Glarentza Field School, director Princeton University, Mount Menoikeion Seminar, director of landscape archaeology University of Minnesota, Morea Project, co-director Stanford University, Monte Polizzo Field School, trench supervisor University of Pennsylvania, Jerba Archaeological Survey, field supervisor

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Governing Board, Byzantine Studies Association of North American 2010-2014 Chair, Program Committee, Byzantine Studies Conference 2012 Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 2010-2013 Book Review Editor, Internet Archaeology 2003-2004 Program Committee, Byzantine Studies Conference 2007, 2009, 2011-2013 Governing Board, University City Historical Society, Philadelphia 2010-2013 Chair, Archaeological Institute of America, Medieval Interest Group 2005-2008 Task Force Committee, Lancaster Heritage Center Museum 2010 National Endowment of the Humanities, Fellowship Committee 2007 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, referee 2010 Journal of Modern Greek Studies, referee 2009 American Journal of Archaeology, referee 2002-2003 Hesperia, referee 2008, 2010, 2011 Monographs, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, referee 2005-2011 Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, textbook referee 2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, referee 2011

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