Nicoletta Momigliano

Nicoletta Momigliano, FSA, is an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and its modern reception. She was born in Milan, Italy, in 1960, where she attended primary and secondary school. She read Classics (Letteratura Classica) at the University of Pisa, where she graduated in 1982. She obtained her MA (1984) from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London (now part of University College London), and her PhD from University College London (1989), under the supervision of John Nicolas Coldstream. From 1990 to 1993 she was a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Research Assistant to Ann Brown, who was responsible for the Sir Arthur Evans Archive and the Aegean collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. From 1993 to 1996 she was the Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellow in Aegean Archaeology at Balliol College, Oxford (duties involved delivering undergraduate lectures for the special module of 'Homeric Archaeology and Early Greece 1550-700 BC'). From 1996 to 1998 she was a lecturer in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford. She has been teaching at the University of Bristol since September 1998. In 1991 she received the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies,[1] for her research on Duncan Mackenzie. In 2003, she was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[2] She has directed and co-directed archaeological projects in Crete (Knossos, Palaikastro) and Turkey (Iasos, Çaltılar). Her publications include many articles and books on Aegean prehistory, especially Minoan archaeology. From 2007 to 2010 she was the Editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens,[3] a journal currently rated of the highest international standard by the European Reference Index for the Humanities in three subjects: Classical Studies, History, and Archaeology. She is currently the Director of the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.[4]