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Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2020-21
- Post-doctoral Researcher at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz / Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie
Research topic during fellowship: An Early End to Antiquity in Roman Provincial Greece: Pagans and Christians in the Wake of the AD 365 Earthquake in Messene.
Nikos Tsivikis is an archaeologist of the Late Antique and Byzantine world, educated at the University of Crete. He is a senior member of both the Ancient Messene Project in Greece and also the Amorium Project in Asia Minor, Turkey. He is currently leading as principal investigator two distinct research projects on Late Antique urbanism and production facilities the first at the Academy of Athens and the second at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH (Rethymno, Crete). He has held fellowships, worked and taught in institutions both in Europe and the USA (Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University; Princeton University; Medieval Academy of America; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; California State University at Sacramento), Germany (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz), Greece (University of the Peloponnese; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH) and Turkey (Koç University). He is specialized in the evolution of Late Antique and Byzantine cities and their hinterland, focusing on social relationships as expressed in the built and unbuilt environment. He has published papers on architecture, sculpture, epigraphy and metalwork in English, Greek and Turkish.