FACULTY
Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
- Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Education
- B.A. at University of Groningen (Netherlands), cum laude, 1992
- M.A. at University of Groningen, cum laude, 1994
- M.A.T. at University of Groningen, 1995
- Ph.D. at Cornell University, 2005
Research Interests
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Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology, the end of the Bronze Age, gender and age in the prehistoric Aegean, Minoan and Mycenaean iconography
Contact Information
| mk22@indiana.edu |
| Ballantine Hall, Room 558 |
| 856-2439 |
Background
My research interests are in Bronze Age Aegean civilizations, especially the Mycenaean culture of the Late Bronze Age. Within this, I am most interested in the transitional periods to and from the Late Bronze Age: the emergence of the Mycenaean culture and the end of the Bronze Age. In my monograph Beyond the Palace: Mycenaean East Lokris I investigated the spread of Mycenaean culture as visible in tombs, pottery, and other artifacts into the periphery of Central Greece, and its flourishing toward the end of the Late Bronze Age. My ‘North Euboean Gulf Archaeological Project’ aims to investigate the transitions to and from the Late Bronze Age and the role of the North Euboean Gulf as a maritime route in these. I am also interested in iconographic conventions and questions of gender and age in the Bronze Age Aegean. I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for classics and archaeology with students and regularly teach the introductory “Classical Art and Archaeology” class, as well as classes on Athens and on various aspects of Greek Art and Archaeology from prehistoric to Hellenistic times.
Selected Awards
- IU Summer Instructional Development Fellowship (2010)
- IU Trustee Teaching Award (2009; 2011)
Courses Recently Taught
- Classical Art and Archaeology
- Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
- Art and Archaeology of Greece
- Topography and Monuments of Athens
- The Golden Age of Athens
- Gender in the Prehistoric Aegean
Publication Highlights
Book
Beyond the Palace: Mycenaean East Lokris (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1781), Oxford 2008.
Articles
“The Bronze Age Site of Mitrou in East Lokris: Finds from the 1988-1989 Surface Survey,” Hesperia 77(2), 2008, 163-250 (co-authored with K. O’Neill).
"A man from Halai? Problems with ‘a-ra-o’ in the Theban Linear B Tablets,” Kadmos 45, 2006, 85-92.
