Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou

Anastasia is the George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). Previously she worked for 14 years as Senior Curator for the Ancient Mediterranean and as Senior Assistant Keeper for Greece, Rome and Cyprus at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Anastasia trained in Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in 2008 under Professor Robin Osborne. Anastasia's core research interests are in the Archaeology of the Mediterranean, with emphasis on the cultures of the Mediterranean islands. She is particularly interested in questions of cultural identity, mobility and migration in antiquity. Over the course of her career in Cambridge she collaborated with colleagues at the Faculty of Classics on projects such as the 'Codebreakers and Groundbreakers exhibition' or her recent major project ‘Being an Islander’ and currently the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project, an innovative archaeological survey project in Western Samos. She has also led numerous initiatives on material culture interpretation and archaeological analysis and her other interests include various aspects of public engagement with the ancient world, anthropological perspectives to interpreting material culture, history of museum collections and issues of heritage responsibilities and provenance.