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Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24
- Director of the “Membra Disiecta” project, Acropolis Restoration Service, Greek Ministry of Culture
Research topic during fellowship: Displaying monumental family dedications near the inventory lists of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis in the time of Lycurgus.
Elisavet Sioumpara is currently Head of the Membra Disiecta Program at the Acropolis Restoration Service of the Greek Ministry of Culture. Her work focuses on the History of Ancient Architecture, Urbanism and Topography, Architectural Sculpture, Epigraphy, hermeneutics, and narratives of Greek Art and Management of Culture. She conducted her postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, as a scholar of Vardinogiannis Foundation, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and NaföG (Nachwuchsförderungsgesetz), after receiving her BA at the University of Crete. She is the author of Der Asklepios-Tempel von Messene auf der Peloponnes (2011), and recently co-editor, with Ulrich Gotter of Identität aus Stein. Die Athener Akropolis und ihre Stadt (2022) and with Olga Palagia of From Hippias to Kallias. Greek Art in Athens and Beyond from 527 to 449 BC (2019). She has been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians University at Munich, where she currently works as a tutor, preparing to deliver her Habilitation for the Architecture and Sculpture of the so-called Hekatompedon or the archaic Parthenon and the first monomialization of the sanctuary of Athena at Acropolis at the beginning of the 6th c. BCE.