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Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24
- Independent Researcher
Research topic during fellowship: Shifting between scripts. The paradoxical advent of the Greek alphabet on Cyprus.
Giorgos Bourogiannis studied archaeology at the University of Athens. He was awarded his master's degree by the University of Edinburgh and completed his PhD on Cypriot and Phoenician pottery in the Early Iron Aegean at the University of Athens. Part of his doctoral research was conducted at the University of Cyprus and the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he was tutored on Phoenician epigraphy. He has been a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge – Faculty of Classics, and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, under the Getty Scholars Programme “Phoenicians, Philistines, and Canaanites: The Levant and the Classical World”. He has worked at the Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies, as a Curator at the Greek and Roman Department of the British Museum, as A.G. Leventis postdoctoral fellow at the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, and as a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, where he was the principal investigator of the project “Cypriot connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Classical period”. Furthermore, he has been employed as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Athens, the Hellenic Open University, and the University of the Aegean. He has participated in several fieldwork projects in Greece, Italy, Egypt, Cyprus, and Lebanon, where he has organized and published two international conferences on ancient Cyprus. His current research focuses on the Cypriot cult, the political landscape of the island, and its epigraphy during the early first millennium BC, viewed in relation to contacts with the Aegean.