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Artemis Papatheodorou
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Dr Artemis Papatheodorou (PhD, Oxford) is a cultural historian of the Ottoman long 19th century. She specializes in the history of archaeology, heritage and the classical reception. She is currently Early Career Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, and looks into the reception of Alexander the Great by the Turkish-speaking Greek Orthodox in 19th-century Ottoman Empire. She was previously Post-doctoral Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Koç University) where she studied the reception of antiquities by ordinary Ottoman Greeks. She has taught history at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). Besides English, she speaks Greek, Turkish and French, and reads Ottoman Turkish. Her research is transcultural and interdisciplinary.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Identity/Representation
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Anatolia
Cyprus
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
History Of Ottoman Archaeology
Ottoman Greeks
Languages
Greek (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Faculty of Oriental Studies | University of Oxford
MPhil | 2009 | Faculty of Oriental Studies | University of Oxford
BA | 2006 | Department of International and European Studies | Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Abstracts
Ottoman Greek Indigenous Archaeologies A Late Ottoman Intellectual on the Chora Monastery: Mehmed Ziya’s Book on “Ka'riye Cami-i Şerifi” in Context