News feedsProfessor Yannis Hamilakis
Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Position: Professor
Primary research group: Classical and Historical Archaeology
Affiliated research groups: Theory, Representation and Cultural Politics; Social Prehistory; Osteoarchaeology
Biographical notes
Yannis Hamilakis has studied at the University of Crete (BA History and Archaeology), and the University of Sheffield (MSc and PhD). He has taught at the University of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2005). He has been Wiener Lab Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens (2002-03), Mary O’Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (1999), Library Fellow at Princeton University (2000), Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati (2003), and Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2005-2006). He was the 2005 Royal Academy of Sweden-funded visiting lecturer to all Swedish Classics Departments, the 2006 W.B. Stanford Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, and in 2008 he will be the keynote speaker at the conference “The Aegean Feast” (University of Melbourne, March 25-29 March 2008).
His research interests include the socio-politics of archaeology (including the politics of pedagogy), the archaeology of the human body (including the consuming body), bodily senses and bodily memory, social zooarchaeology, and prehistoric Greece.
He is committed to an anthropologically-informed, critical archaeological engagement with past and present material culture, and to the inter-disciplinary nature of archaeological enterprise. This position recognises the historically contingent nature of archaeology as a device of western modernity, as well as its potential to enable a critical and reflexive experiential encounter with the material world. He also believes on a politically committed archaeological and academic practice, devoted to social justice.
He has been involved in a number of field projects in Greece (including Theopetra cave, Thessaly, sites in Troizinia, Peloponnese, and sites in Crete) and Britain, with more recent the Nopigeia Archaeological Project in West Crete.
He is founding member and co-ordinator of the Radical Archaeology Forum, and was founding member and first director of the University of Wales Centre for the Study of SE Europe. He is currently co-ordinator of the groups, Laboratory for Social Zooarchaeology and “Material Memories” (part of the Memory Network) at the University of Southampton, and of the task-force on "Archaeologists and War " for the World Archaeological Congress. From February 2007 and for three years he will be on research leave to work on the project “Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past”, as part of the Kalaureia Excavation Project.
He serves on the editorial board of the journals:
Classical Receptions Journal (2009-)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (inc. Man) (2005-2007)
Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (2005-)
- Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (2004-)
- Annual of the British School at Athens (2004-)
- Aegean Archaeology (2002-)
- Eterotites (2004-)
- Research in Archaeological Education (2007-)
- and the WAC series “Research Handbooks in Archaeology” (published by Left Coast Press)
Books:
Hamilakis, Y. and Anagnostopoulos, A. (eds) 2009. Archaeological Ethnographies (web link). London: Maney (Public Archaeology, special double issue 8, 2-3).
Hamilakis, Y. in prep. Archaeologies of the Senses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hamilakis, Y. and Labanyi, J. (eds) 2008 Remembering and Forgetting in Europe's Southern Periphery (web link) (special issue of the journal "History and Memory", 20(2)).
Hamilakis, Y. 2007. The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology and National Imagination in Greece (web link). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hamilakis, Y. and Duke, P. (eds) 2007. Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press (web link) (One World Archaeology).
Hamilakis, Y. & Momigliano, N. (eds) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' (web link ). Padova: Aldo Ausilio (Creta Antica 7).
Brown, K.S. and Hamilakis, Y. (eds) 2003. The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories. (web link) Lanham and Oxford: Lexington Books.
Kotjabopoulou, E. Hamilakis, Y., Halstead, P. Gamble, C. and Elefanti, V. (eds) 2003. Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances (web link ) London: BSA.
Hamilakis, Y. (ed) 2002. Labyrinth Revisited: Re-thinking "Minoan" Archaeology (web link ) Oxford: Oxbow.
Hamilakis, Y., Pluciennik, M. and Tarlow, S. (eds) 2002. Thinking Through The Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality (web link). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Rainbird, P. and Hamilakis, Y. (eds) 2001. Interrogating Pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education (web link) Oxford: Archaeopress/BAR.
Some recent articles:
Hamilakis, Y. and Anagnostopoulos, A. 2009. What is archaeological ethnography? Public Archaeology 8(2-3): 65-87
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Hamilakis, Y., Anagnostopoulos, A. Ifantidis, F. 2009. Postcards from the edge of time: archaeology, photography, archaeological ethnography (a photo-essay). Public Archaeology 8(2-3): 283-309.
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Hamilakis, Y. 2009. The "war on terror" and the military-archaeology complex: Iraq, ethics, and neo-colonialism. Archaeologies 5(1): 39-65. (access to this article as a pdf file)
Hamilakis, Y. In press 2008. We are all Middle Easterners now: Globalization, Immanence, Archaeology. In Boytner, R. et al (eds), Filtering the Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in the Middle East. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Hamilakis, Y. and Labanyi, J. 2008. Time, Materiality, and the Work of Memory. History and Memory 20(2): 5-17. (access this article as pdf file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2008. Decolonising Greek archaeology: indigenous archaeologies, modernist archaeology, and the post-colonial critique. In Damaskos, D. and Plantzos, D. (eds), A Singular Antiquity. Athens: The Benaki Museum, pp. 273-84. (access this article as pdf file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2008. Time, performance, and the production of a mnemonic record: from feasting to an archaeology of eating and drinking. In Hitchcock, L., Laffineur, R. and J. Crowley (eds), DAIS: The Aegean Feast. Liege and Austin: University of Liege and University of Texas at Austin, pp. 3-17. (access this article as pdf file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2008. Monumentalising place: archaeologists, photographers and the Athenian Acropolis from the eighteenth century to the present. In Rainbird, P. (ed.) Monuments in the Landscape. Stroud: Tempus, pp. 190-198.
Hamilakis, Y. 2007. From ethics to politics. In Hamilakis, Y. and Duke, P. (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, pp. 15-40 (access this article as pdf file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2007. Tombs for the living. Antiquity (access this article as PDF file ).
Hamilakis, Y. 2007. Contemporary Art and Archaeology: reflections on a relationship. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13: 739-742 (access this article ).
Hamilakis, Y. 2006. The colonial, the national and the local: legacies of the “Minoan” past. In Hamilakis, Y. & Momigliano, N. (eds) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'. Padova: Aldo Ausilio (Creta Antica 7), pp. 145-162. (access this article as PDF file here ).
Hamilakis, Y. and Momigliano, N. 2006. Archaeology and European modernity: stories from the borders. In Hamilakis, Y. & Momigliano, N. (eds) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' . Padova: Aldo Ausilio (Creta Antica 7), pp. 25-36. (access this article as PDF file ).
Hamilakis, Y. 2005. Whose World and whose archaeology? The return of the political. Archaeologies 1(2): 94-101. (access this article as PDF file ).
Hamilakis, Y. 2005. Whither Aegean prehistory? In Cherry, J. et al. (eds) Prehistorians Round the Pont: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum.
Hamilakis, Y. 2004. Archaeology and the politics of pedagogy World Archaeology 36(2): 287-309 (access this article as PDF file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2004. Legacies of Mediterranean prehistory. Written for the volume, Blake, E. and Knapp, B. (eds) Archaeologies of Mediterranean Prehistory. Oxford:Blackwell (access this unpublished paper).
Hamilakis, Y. and Konsolaki, E. 2004. Pigs for the Gods: Animal burnt sacrifices at a Mycenaean sanctuary OxfordJournal of Archaeology 23(2): 135-51. (access this article PDF file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2004. The fragments of modernity and the archaeologies of the future. Modernism/Modernity 11(1): 55-59 (access this article as PDF file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2003. Iraq, stewardship and the "record": An ethical crisis for archaeology. Public archaeology 3(2), 104-111 (access this article as PDF file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2003. Lives in ruins: Antiquities and national imagination in Greece. In Kane, S (ed) The Politics of Archaeology and Identity in a Global Context. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, pp 51-78.
Hamilakis, Y. 2002. Too many chiefs? Factional competition in Neopalatial Crete. In J. Driessen, I. Schoep and R. Laffineur (eds). Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces. Liege and Austin: Universite de Liege and University of Texas at Austin (Aegaeum 23), pp. 179-199.
Hamilakis, Y. 2002. "The other Parthenon": Antiquity and national memory at Makronisos. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 20: 307-338 (access this article as a PDF file).
Hamilakis, Y. 2001. Monumental visions: Bonfils, classical antiquity and nineteenth-century Athenian society. History of Photography 25(1): 5-12 and 23-43
Hamilakis, Y 2001. Archaeology and the burden of responsibility. In Pluciennik, M. (ed) The Responsibility of Archaeologists: Ethics and Archaeology. Oxford: BAR/Archaeopress, pp. 91-96.
Hamilakis, Y. 2000. Cyberpast/cyberspace/cybernation: constructing Hellenism in hyperreality European Journal of Archaeology 3(2): 241-64 (access this article as a PDF file ).
Hamilakis, Y. 2000. No Laughing matter: antiquity in Greek political cartoons. Public Archaeology 1(1): 57-72.
Hamilakis, Y. 1999. La trahison des archéologues? Archaeological Practice as Intellectual Activity in Postmodernity. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12 (1): 60-79 (access this article as a PDF file ).
* See complete list of publications
| Module title | Module code | Discipline | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeologies of the Senses | ARCH6096 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Ship Science in Archaeology | ARCH6021 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| The Anthropology and Archaeology of Eating and Drinking | ARCH3019 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Strategies For Survival | ARCH2001 | Archaeology | Tutor |
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