Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

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Biography

Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw is trained in Archaeology (especially Aegean Bronze Age - Hellenistic Greek), Classics and History (Ancient and Modern), History of Western Art, and Education. She has additional professional experience as an interdisciplinary researcher, educator and research facilitator. She researches, publishes and presents extensively on heritage, archaeology (particularly the Aegean Bronze Age), museology, analogue and digital experimentation, the impact and uses of heritage (incl. reception), and international education. She has also lectured at and designed learning materials for 17 institutions, mostly in the UK, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Anna is currently primarily a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology at UCL. She also conducts her Aegean Bronze Age research in collaboration with other relevant archaeological teams. She teaches Archaeology at the Continuing Education departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. She is an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Peer Review College Member and a Permanent Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Germany.

Qualifications:

City and Guilds Further and Adult Education Teachers’ Certificate 7407 – Stage 1, City of Bristol College

PhD in Minoan Archaeology, University of Bristol

MA with Commendation in Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Bristol

BA Archaeology and History of Art, University of Crete Greece

Research

Material culture studies: these include research into prehistoric ceramics, figurines, and cross-material themes, such as religion and social structures. They also include the construction and epistemology of artefact databases.

Reception of (Greek) Archaeology: this includes research into the multifaceted identities of ancient material culture in subsequent contexts (principally 19th-21st c. CE), with special focus on replication, education, nationalism and popular discourse

Archaeologies of the Body: these include investigations into human-artefact networks, as well as constructs of the human body, e.g. through treatment and representation.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Simandiraki-Grimshaw A. 2010, 'Bodyscapes in Minoan Crete', Mycenaean Seminar 2009-10, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS): 126-7. , 2010
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A. 2010, 'Minoan animal-human hybridity', in Counts D.B. Arnold B. (eds.) 2010, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography, Archaeolingua: 93-106. , 2010
Simandiraki A. 2006, 'International Education and Cultural Heritage: Alliance or Antagonism?', Journal of Research in International Education (JRIE) 5(1): 35-56. , 2006
Simandiraki A. 2006, 'Cultural Heritage in International Education: developing a research design', International Journal of Learning 13(8): 89-96. , 2006
Simandiraki A. 2005, 'Of Onions and Ruins: Knowing Cultures through their Heritage?' International Schools Journal, XXIV (2): 40-8. , 2005
Simandiraki A. 2005, 'Minoan archaeology in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games', European Journal of Archaeology (EJA), 8 (2): 157-81. , 2005

BOOKS

In Preparation: Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Galatas Pediados: the Middle Minoan III Pottery, INSTAP Academic Press. , 2013 (UNKNOWN)
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Stefanou E. (eds.), From Archaeology to Archaeologies: the ‘Other’ Past, British Archaeological Reports International Series (to be published in early 2012). , 2012
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Miniature Vessels in Minoan Crete, INSTAP Academic Press. (UNKNOWN)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Simandiraki-Grimshaw A. 2010, 'The human body in Minoan religious iconography', Krzyszkowska O. H. (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren, BSA Studies series 18: 321-9. , 2010
Simandiraki A., Grimshaw T. 2009, 'The Branding of Minoan Archaeology', in Georgiadis M., Gallou C. (eds.), The Past in the Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition in the Transmission of Culture, BAR International Series 1925: 87-104. , 2009
Simandiraki A. 2009, 'Blue Sky Digital Heritage: the Case of Greece', In Tsipopoulou M. (ed.) Proceedings of Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content, International Conference of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece, 31 October – 2 November 2008: 182-6. , 2009
Simandiraki A., Grimshaw T. 2008, 'Linguistic Imperialism and Minoan Archaeology (Greece)', Archaeologies 4(1): 186-9. , 2008
Simandiraki A., Stefanou E. 2007, '‘Fringe’ Archaeologies: the ‘Other’ Past',The European Archaeologist 28 (Winter 2007-8): 28-9. , 2012
Simandiraki A. 2006, 'The Agrimi in the Minoan Ceramic Relief', Proceedings of the 9th International Cretological Congress, Elounda, Crete, Greece, 1-6 October 2001, Society of Cretan Historical Studies, Herakleion 2006: vol.A3, pp.95-108. , 2006
Simandiraki A. 2006, 'The ‘Minoan’ experience of schoolchildren in Crete', In Hamilakis Y., Momigliano N. (eds.), Archaeology and European Modernity: producing and Consuming the Minoans, Bottega D'Erasmo, Aldo Ausilio Editore In Padova, Creta Antica 7: 259-274. , 2006
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Stefanou E., 'Introduction: From Archaeology to Archaeologies: the ‘Other’ Past', in Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Stefanou E. (eds.), From Archaeology to Archaeologies: the ‘Other’ Past. (UNKNOWN)
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., 'Dusk at the Palace: Exploring Minoan Spiritualities', in Morris C., Peatfield A., Rountree K. (eds.), Archaeology of Spiritualities, Springer, ‘One World Archaeology’ Series (UNKNOWN)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., The Body Brand and Minoan Zonation, Proceedings of “Minoan Archaeology: Challenges and Perspectives for the 21st Century, International PhD and PostDoc Conference”, Heidelberg, Germany, 23-27 March 2011. , 2011
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Stevens F., Adorning the Body: Animals as Ornaments in Bronze Age Crete, Proceedings of The 13th International Aegean Conference, KOSMOS: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-23 April 2010. , 2010
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Miniature Vessels from Petras, Proceedings of the Two-day Conference for the 25 years of the Excavation of the Minoan Palace of Petras Siteias, Athens, Greece, 9-10 October 2010. , 2010
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., How 'Minoan' Was Bronze Age Crete?, Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) 2010-11 , 2010
Simandiraki A. 2008, 'The Minoan body as a Feast', in Hitchcock L., Laffineur R., Crowley J. (eds.) DAIS: the Aegean Feast, Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference, University of Melbourne,Centre for Classics and Archaeology, Melbourne, Australia, 25-29 March 2008, Aegaeum 29, Annales d’archéologie égéenne de l’Université de Liège et UT-PASP: 29-37, pl.III. , 2008
Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., Religious Exchanges between Minoan Crete and its Neighbours: Methodological Considerations, Proceedings of “Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean”, International Conference of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 26-29 October 2008. , 2008
Simandiraki A., Miniature vessels in Minoan Crete, Proceedings of the 10th International Cretological Congress, Chania, Crete, Greece, 1-8 October 2006. , 2006
Simandiraki A., Minoan archaeology in modern Cretan administration, Proceedings of the 10th International Cretological Congress, Chania, Crete, Greece, 1-8 October 2006. , 2006
Stevens F., Simandiraki-Grimshaw A., The Girl and the Pithos: Archaeology, Photography and People in Knossos in the Early 1900s, Proceedings of “Greek (Hi)stories through the Lens: Photographs, Photographers & their Testimonies” Conference, The Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, King's College London, UK, 8 – 11 June. (UNKNOWN)

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SPHS (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies)

Institute of Continuing Education
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