Dimitri Nakassis

Candidate statement

Dimitri Nakassis is Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. His main research interests are the archaeology and texts of Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Greece and archaeological survey. He's co-director of the Pylos Tablets Digital Project, which uses computational photography and other methods to document the Linear B tablets from Pylos, and the Western Argolid Regional Project, a diachronic archaeological survey. His work intersects with modern Greek studies in two main areas. First, he's interested in the archaeology and ethnography of modern Greece, primarily as it relates to archaeological fieldwork in the Greek countryside; the Western Argolid Regional Project is informed by ethnographic work that we hope to integrate into our interpretation in meaningful ways. Second, he has a burgeoning interest in Greek intellectual history, especially 19th and early 20th century historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists; this is motivated by an interest in the way that scholars like Christos Tsountas (1857-1934) interpreted the prehistoric period as part of a continuous history of Hellenism that could be informed by contemporary Greek life.