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Hasaki, Eleni
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Graduate Advisor for M.A. Emphasis in Classical Archaeology

Research: Eleni Hasaki, a Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and a Professor of Classics at the Department of Religious Studies and Classics, received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati (with a Fulbright Scholarship) and her B.A. from the University of Athens, Greece. She is  the co-director of the Laboratory for Traditional Technology, where she has established a Ceramic Artist Residency. Her research focuses on the operational knowledge and economic strategies of industrial communities in ancient Greece and the wider Mediterranean. She is the author and co-editor of three books, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. 

Her multi-faceted approach to the technology of ancient Greek craft production includes five interconnected projects: a) the Digital Humanities project The WebAtlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece; b) the Experimental Archaeology open-air lab, Ancient Greek Pyrotechnology; c) the  Energetics of Potters and Painters in Ancient Greece to reconstruct the ancient timetables of forming and decorating ancient Greek ceramics; d) the SNAP: Social Networks of Athenian Potters, a collaborative project supported by the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant; and e) the Potters' Quarters in Transition, Moknine, an ethnoarchaeological project of spatial organization in Tunisian pottery industries.

She has authored or co-edited three peer-reviewed books:  a monograph on  Potters at Work at Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes. She has co-edited the Reconstructing Scales of Production in the Ancient Greek World with M. Bentz (University of Bonn, Germany) and is currently finishing the volume Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World with D. Elia and M.Serino (University of Turin, Italy). Her interdisciplinary, often collaborative, scholarship has appeared in Journal of Historical Network Research, Interdiscilinaria Archaeologica (Natural Sciences in Archaeology), and Tree-Ring Research. Hasaki has received funding for her research from leading institutions, including the Archaeological Institute of America, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Harvard's Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. She has held advanced fellowships at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies and at the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). She regularly serves as a reviewer for major granting institutions and academic publishers. 

Teaching: Her teaching covers a wide array of undergraduate and graduate courses on Greek Art and Archaeology, Health and Medicine, Technology and Labor, and Experimental Archaeology.  She has been recognized with the University of Arizona's  Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award for her outstanding commitment to the graduate programs in her units and in European graduate programs in Archaeology. Previously she was second-place winner for the Graduate and Professional Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award and received an Honorable Mention for the Five Star Teaching Award. She has recently completed the supervision of a European Commission  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Post-Doctoral Fellowship project A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. She has served as Undergraduate Advisor for Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Anthropology with a focus on student advising, curricular development, major recruitment, and student recognition through college and campus awards. Currently, Hasaki serves as the Graduate Advisor for the MA Emphasis in Classical Archaeology and as an Honors Liaison for the School of Anthropology. She is an Honors Professor of First-Year colloquia, faculty supervisor of Spirit of Inquiry Grants, nominator for Pillar of Excellence Awards, Flinn Scholars Mentor, and Fulbright Scholarships Interview panelist. Her Health and Medicine course is part of the BA degree in Medicine, and the Health and Human Values Honors Concentration. She is the founding director of Arizona in the Aegean Study Abroad Program and has taught at Arizona in Orvieto Program

Service: Hasaki has been a National Lecturer  for the Archaeological Institute of America and has held leadership positions on its board: Chair of Publication Grants Committee, and Chair of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions in Archaeology. She has served for several years as the  President of the Tucson Chapter of the  Archaeological Institute of America  and  promotes local outreach with  several  AIA Local Society Outreach Grants. Hasaki is a member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens where she co-directed their Summer Session Program as the Gertrude Smith Professor. Hasaki's research, teaching, and service have received extensive media recognition on UA News (COVID-19; Re-Humanizing Mediterranean Archaeology). On campus Hasaki has proudly served as a Faculty Fellow at the Honors Residence Halls and in the Institute of Career Readiness and Student Engagement, developing programs on nutritional best practices, professional development, and scientific exploration of flagship UA laboratories. She was a panelist in an international colloquium on ancient and current pandemics (IGlobes, CNRS and ENS in France: Parthenon and the Pandemic). She offers continuing education curricula at the Humanities Seminars Program. Honoring her Greek heritage, she has served as Vice-President of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation in Tucson. 

 

Selected Publications

Books: (Full list of publications at: Eleni Hasaki's Academia Profile)

2024. Elia, D., E. Hasaki, M. Serino, Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World, Berlin (in press)

2021. Hasaki, E. Potters at Work at Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes (Hesperia Supplement 51: American School of Classical Studies at Athens) Princeton, NJ. [Reviews: BMCR, AJA, European Journal of Archaeology (Cambridge), Classical Journal (Cambridge), Revue Archeologique].

2020. Hasaki, E. and M. Bentz (eds). Reconstructing Scales of Production in the Ancient Greek World, Heidelberg.

Chapters / Articles:

2024. Hasaki, E. M. Serino, and D. Elia, Final Remarks: Greek and Roman Ceramic Producers: Operational Knowledge and Networked Mobilities. In D. Elia, E. Hasaki, M. Serino (eds), Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World, Berlin, 373–379 (in press)

2024.  Serino, M., D. Elia, E. Hasaki, Introduction. Archaeology of Gesture and Material Consciousness. The A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. Project and Beyond. In D. Elia, E. Hasaki, M. Serino (eds), Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World, Berlin, 2–7 (in press)

2024. Hasaki, E. Timing Euxitheos and Euphronios: Energetics and  Scale of Producion in the Athenian Potters’ Quarter. In D. Elia, E. Hasaki, M. Serino (eds), Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World, Berlin, 89–107 (in press)

2024. Hasaki, E. Handling Greek Vases: Vessel Size Considerations for Potters and Painters, in N. Dimakis and E. Dimitriadou (eds), Kallinikos, Festschrift for Professor Panos Valavanis, Athens, 26–35.

2023. Kourayos, Y., R. Sutton, E. Hasaki.  V.I. The Stratigraphic Context of the "Temple's" Object Assemblages. In A. Alexandridou, Y. Kourayos, I. Daifa (eds),  Despotiko, The Site of Mandra. The "Temple" Complex and its Deposits (BaBesch Supplement 46), Leuven, 7996.

2023. Kourayos, Y., R. Sutton, E. Hasaki.  V.II. The "Temple's" Deposit: The Pottery. In A. Alexandridou, Y. Kourayos, I. Daifa (eds),  Despotiko, The Site of Mandra. The "Temple" Complex and its Deposits (BaBesch Supplement 46), Leuven, 97-190; bibl: 219232

2023. Kourayos, Y., A. Alexandridou, I. Daifa, E. Hasaki, R. Sutton.  VI. Deities, Cult, and Activity at Archaic Mandra. In A. Alexandridou, Y. Kourayos, I. Daifa (eds), Despotiko, The Site of Mandra. The "Temple" Complex and its Deposits (BaBesch Supplement 46), Leuven, 215217

2023. Harris Cline, D. and E. Hasaki. Assortative Mixing in the Social Networks of Athenian Potters and the Search for Communities, Journal of Historical Network Research 8: 21–55.

2021.   Hasaki, E. and K. T. Raptis. The WebAtlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece and its Contribution to Medieval Ceramic Studies. In P. Petridis et al. (eds), 12th International Congress on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics, Athens, October 21–27, 2018, Athens, 175–184 [printed in 2022]

2021.  Neth, B. and E. Hasaki. The Potter’s Wheel in Ancient Greece: Experimental Archaeology and Web Applications for Velocity, IANSA 2: 115–125

2021.  Hasaki, E. and M. Vidale. Le Tavolette Dipinte (Pinakes) di Penteskouphia: Il Lavoro dei Vasi Affidato agli Dei. In M. Salvadori (ed), Argilla. Storie di Vasi, Padova, 35–48.

2020. Hasaki, E. and D. Cline. Social Network Analysis and Connoisseurship in the Study of Athenian Potters' Communities. E. Hasaki and M. Bentz (eds), Reconstructing Scales of Production in the Ancient Greek World, Heidelberg, 59-80

2020. Hasaki, E. The WebAtlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece: A Research Gateway to the Study of Hellenistic Ceramic Workshops. In S. Drougou (ed), Pottery Workshops, Craftsmen and Workshops, Athens, 280-312.

2019. Cline, D. and E. Hasaki. The Connected World of Athenian Potters: Connoisseurship, Collaborations, and Social Networks, Harvard Research Bulletin 7

2019. Hasaki, E.  Potters and their Wheels in Ancient Greece: Skills and Secrets in Communities of Practice. M Denti and M. Villette (eds), Archéologie des espaces artisanaux. Fouiller et comprendre les gestes des potiers, Rennes, 297–314

2018. Hasaki, E. Craft Apprenticeship, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice in Ancient Greece, Center 38, 116–119

2018. Hasaki, E. and R. Delozier. Terracotta Statues from Ayia Irini Kea: An Experimental Replication. E. Angliker and J. Tully (eds), Cycladic  Archaeology: New Approaches and Discoveries, Oxford, 3–26

2017. Hasaki, E. and Y. Nakas.  Ship Iconography on the Penteskouphia Pinakes from Archaic Corinth (Greece). Pottery Industry and Maritime Trade. J. Gawronski, A. van Holk, J. Schokkenbroek (eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA 13), Amsterdam, 66–72

2017. Hasaki, E. and Y. Kourayos. The Early Roman Pottery Workshop, the Classical House, and Geometric Burials at Skiadas Plot, Paroikia, Paros. Archaeologikon Deltion – Meletes 67–68: 459–482

 

 

 

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