Biography
I am an archaeologist specialising in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (broadly, 2000-800 BCE). I obtained my PhD from the Free University of Brussels in conjunction with the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne in 2021, in which I studied ancient metallurgy and mirrors in the Aegean area, utilising these artefacts and practices to conceptualise the circulation and transformation of objects and contexts in terms of trade routes, cultural influences, mobility, and relationships.
I first joined Cambridge as a Sidney Sussex College Research Associate and Wiener-Anspach Visiting Scholar to examine the circulation of metal mirrors and related technologies within, to, and from Cyprus, exploring the island's insularity and connectivity during the Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE). My research investigated the mechanisms behind cultural proximities and their effects on social environments, as well as how individuals and social groups engaged with, instigated, and experienced cultural exchanges. The analysis of interactions with the Near Eastern coastal areas (Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine), which reflects the interconnected nature of the Mediterranean, also led me to explore mirrors from those regions, supported by the William Lameere Grant (Free University of Brussels) and the philanthropic Goldwasser Foundation. In 2023, I was awarded the Michael Ventris Memorial Award.
At Cambridge, while working on mirrors, I became interested in understanding the sensory experiences of people who lived in the Aegean in the second-millennium BCE, specifically how they created and interacted with artifacts, images, and visually translated their experiences within their environments, which is my current research focus.
Publications
1. Monographs
2023 Le miroir en Égée à l’âge du Bronze récent. Formes, fonctions, usages et trajectoires du XVIe au XIe s. av. J.-C., Aegaeum 48, Leuven.
2022 Le miroir en Europe centro-occidentale à La Tène ancienne. Image de la tradition et reflet des échanges, Mémoires de la Société Belge d'Études Celtiques de Bruxelles 38, Brussels, 2022.
2. Articles
2024 (with R. Feldbacher and P. M. Fischer) An Aegean Mirror from Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 43 (2), 2024, 153-172.
2023 Histoire du miroir aux origines, du Proche-Orient à l’ouest du Bassin méditerranéen (c. VIe mill.-Xe s. av.n.è.), Revue archéologique 75 (1), 2023, 15-65.
2023 镜出东方：新石器时代到铁器时代西亚和欧洲的镜子生产和使用概述 [Out of the east, mirrors come. Overview of mirror production and use from Western Asia to Europe from the Neolithic to the Iron age periods (c. sixth mill. to the IVth c. BCE)], The Silk Road Cultural Studies 8, 147-160, 2023.
In press Interactions between Eastern Mediterranean and Sicilian Communities: Evidence from 13th-11th Century BCE Mirrors, Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies (Agios Nikolaos, 5-9 October 2022).
3. Reviews
2024 R. Jung, E. Kardamaki (eds.), Synchronizing the destructions of the Mycenaean palaces (Mykenische Studien, 36), Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2022, in La Revue archéologique 78, 172-175.
2024 James Whitley, Knossos: myth, history and archaeology. Archaeological histories, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2023 J.M.A. Murphy, J.E. Morrison (eds.), Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance. Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles, INSTAP Academic Press, 2022, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 8, p. 331-336.
2022 J.M.A. Murphy (ed.), Death in Late Bronze Age Greece, Oxford University Press, 2021, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 7, p. 489-493.
2022 J. Driessen, A. Vanzetti (eds.), Communication Uneven: Acceptance of and Resistance to Foreign Influences in the Connected Ancient Mediterranean, Presses universitaires de Louvain (Aegis, 20), 2021, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 7, p. 498-502.
2022 C. Lanoë (dir.), Revêtir des idées. Habits, parures et politique en France (XVIe-XXIe siècles), Parlement[s], n° 34, 2021, in Lectures [online], Les compte-rendus.
In press T. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt (eds.), Circuits of Metal Value: Changing Roles of Metals in the Early Aegean and Nearby Lands, Oxbow Books, 2023, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 9/10.
In press T. Bürge, Teresa, P. M. Fischer, (eds.) The Decline of Bronze Age Civilisations in the Mediterranean: Cyprus and Beyond (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology), Åström Editions, 2023, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 9/10.