Biography
Anastasia Christophiloulou is Senior Curator (Ancient Mediterranean) of the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is responsible for research and exhibition projects and permanent displays in connection with the museum’s Greek, Cypriot and Roman collections. Anastasia’s core research interests are in the Archaeology of the Mediterranean and of the Mediterranean islands, with emphasis on the cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus. She is particularly intrested in questions of island identity, mobility and migration in antiquity – questions associated with the research project she is leading on ‘Being an Islander’: Art and Identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’. Other interests include anthropological perspectives to interpreting material culture, as well as the application of visual anthropology in documentary film. Her full staff profile can be found on the Fitzwilliam Museum website here and the Department of Archaeology website here.
