Avramidou Amalia

Amalia Avramidou holds a BA in History, Archaeology and Art History and an MA in Classical Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has a PhD in Classics from the Johns Hopkins University. She worked in many Universities in Greece (University of Crete, Hellenic Open University) and abroad (Northwestern University, Bowling Green State University, Université libre de Bruxelles, Open University of Cyprus), before joining the Democritus University of Thrace in 2014.

Her research focuses on pottery and iconography, ancient Thrace, cult and cross-cultural relations in the Mediterranean. She has published two monographs (The Codrus Painter ; Parthenos Sanctuary I),) and a university e-textbook, edited various collective volumes (Festschrift H.A. Shapiro ; Parthenos Sanctuary II) and conference proceedings (CPNA ; Surveying Aegean Thrace), while she is also the author of numerous articles. Between 2019–2023, she was the PI of the research project ArcGeoPerSa (HFRI FM17-750), an archaeological and geophysical investigation of the Peraia of Samothrace, while since 2018 she is in charge of the study and publication of the Sanctuary of Parthenos at ancient Neapolis (Kavala). To this day, she has participated in many research projects, she has organized several international and local conferences, and has received important grants and fellowships (e.g. the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, the George and Victoria Karelia Foundation Research Grant, as a Getty Scholar, as a Gertrude Smith Summer Seminar Professor at the ASCSA, as a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo).