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 Peloponnese” 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 Athens 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 Mystras in 1930s Greece,” 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 Morea: 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 Glarentza,” 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 Fourth Crusade, 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