Yannis Hamilakis

Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and Co-Director of the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project. His research interests include the socio-politics of the past in the present, archaeological ethnography, the archaeology of bodily senses, zooarchaeology, and Aegean prehistory. Recent publications include Archaeology...See more

Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and Co-Director of the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project. His research interests include the socio-politics of the past in the present, archaeological ethnography, the archaeology of bodily senses, zooarchaeology, and Aegean prehistory. Recent publications include Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' (Padua: Also Ausilio/Bottega D'Erasmo, 2006) (co-edited with N. Momigliano), The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology and National Imagination in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007-winner of the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize) and Archaeological Ethnographies, Public Archaeology, special double issue, Volume 8, 2-3 (London: Maney, 2009), co-edited with Aris Anagnostopoulos. See less