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Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Haagsma, Margriet

Dr  Margriet J. Haagsma

(Associate Professor)

Doctoraat, University of Groningen

M.Phil., University of Cambridge

Doctoraal, University of Groningen

Kandidaats, University of Groningen

2-65 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-2985

margriet.haagsma@ualberta.ca

Director of the Kastro Kallithea archaeological Project
Expertise & Research Interests
  • Housing and domestic economy in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
  • The Greek City

  • Archaeological method and theory

Academic History
2007-present
Associate Professor in Classics
 
2001-2007            
Assistant Professor in Classics. Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. Halftime tenure track position. Full time from July 2003.
 
2001-2003                
Tenured position University of Amsterdam, full time. On leave.
 
1995-2001                
Director Netherlands Institute at Athens. Employed by the University of Amsterdam. Three years half- time, from 1998 full-time. Permanent position from November 1st 2000.
 
1993-1995                 
General Academic Secretary, Netherlands Institute at  Athens, Three months full-time, 17 months half-time.
 
1992-1998                
Academic Researcher, Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO); 3 years, full-time, non-renewable position. Research Project: Creation and Use of Domestic Space. The Social and Economic Organisation of Households in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Project director: Professor M. Kleibrink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
 
1985-1986                 
Research assistant and sessional lecturer, 12 months, 20 hrs per week, Department of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Groningen.
 
Teaching

Regular Classes:

  • CLASS 103 (CLASS 270) Greek Civilization
  • CLASS 254 (CLASS 252 & 352) Greek Art & Archeaology
  • CLASS 354 Current debates in the Archaeology of Greece 
  • CLASS 356 Topics in Greek Civilization
  • CLASS 358 Theory and Methodology in Classical Archaeology
  • CLASS 261 Women in Antiquity
  • CLASS 473 Topics in Greek Archaeology (Greek Cities, Archaeological Method and Theory, Bronze Age Greece, Greek Sanctuaries)
  • CLASS 515 Topics in Greek Archaeology (Greek Cities, Archaeological Method and theory, Bronze Age Greece, Greek Sanctuaries)

Fieldschool

  • CLASS 475/601 Archaeological Fieldschool in Greece
Fieldwork

 

2004-present          
Field director of the archaeological and architectural survey at the kastro at Kallithea, Greece. A. Tziafalias, M. Haagsma, Directors.

1994-2001             
Field assistant and pottery specialist in the surface survey of the chora of Halos, Greece. Z. Malakasioti, V. Rondiri, H.R. Reinders, Directors.

1992                    
Field assistant at the excavations at Nieuwe Niedorp (Neolithic), The Netherlands. E. Bulten, Director.

1992                     
Field assistant at a survey of an Iron Age Urn Field near Emmen, The Netherlands. Y. Dijkstra, Director.

1992                    
Researching traditional mudbrick housing in Almiros and environment Greece).

1991                     
Field assistant at the excavations at Scheemda (Medieval), The Netherlands. J. Molema, Director.

1991                     
Field assistant at the excavations at Oudehaske (Paleo-lithic), The Netherlands. D. Stapert, director.

1988-2001             
Field director, architecture and pottery specialist at the Halos project. H.R. Reinders, Director.

1986                    
Cataloguing finds from the Sanctuary at Campoverde, Latium, Italy. A.J. Beyer, Supervisor. Netherlands Institute at Rome.

1985-1987             
Field assistant and trench supervisor at the excavations at Borgo Le Ferriere , Italy. M. Kleibrink, Director.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Academic publications

 

Monograph

In press.            Domestic Economy and Social Organization in New Halos.

 

Edited Volume

2003                Editor (with P. Den Boer and E.M. Moormann), Classical Greece in European and national identities. Proceedings of an international colloquium held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens  Oct. 2nd-Oct 4th 2000. Amsterdam. Gieben Publishers. 250 pages.

 

Articles and Chapters

In Prep.        With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Scratching the Surface. A Preliminary Report of the first Two Seasons of Fieldwork at Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly. Part 2’. To be submitted to Mouseion 2010.

In Press            With S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Kastro Kallithea 2006’ Archaiologikon Deltion (2007)

2010           Hellenistic Housing in Achaia Phthiotis. Proceedings of the Conference:  “Urban Living in the Eastern Mediterranean: 4th century BC 1st century AD’. Vienna, October 24-27 2007.

2009          With R. Lee, C. Martin, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Rebuilding the past: Modelling Architecture of Kastro Kallithea to understand Macedonian Influences in Hellenistic Thessaly.’ Proceedings of the Chacmool Conference. 'Postcolonialism’, November 2006 Calgary.

2009           With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. Preliminary results of the Urban Survey at Kastro Kallithea. Paper for the proceedings of the Conference at The Second Conference on the Archaeology of Thessaly and Central Greece. Organised by the University of Thessaly. Volos March 16-20, 2006.

2009            With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. The Kastro of Kallithea in its historical context. 1 Διεθνες Συνεδριο Ιστοριας & Πολιτισμου της Θεσσαλιας. Larissa. 9-10 Nov. 2006. 224-232.

2008                With S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: C. Morgan, 2007. ‘Archaeology in Greece’. Archaeological Reports. Vol. 53

2007             With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Scratching the Surface. A Preliminary Report of the first Two Seasons of Fieldwork at Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly. Part 1’. Mouseion. pp. 91-135.

2006                With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas: ‘Kastro Kallithea 2005’ in Archaiologikon Deltion (2006)

2006                With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas: ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: J. Whitley, 2006. ‘Archaeology in Greece’. Archaeological Reports. Vol. 52.

2005                With A. Tziafalias, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas: ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: J. Whitley, 2005. ‘Archaeology in Greece’. Archaeological Reports. Vol. 51. pp. 62-63.

2005                ‘Kallithea, Thessaly’ in: S. Kennell, 2005. On Site. Canadian Archaeologists in Greece. Athens, Motibo. Pp. 44-45.

2005                Τα σπιτια της Νεας Αλου. Δελτιο Φιλαρχαιου Εταιρειας ‘η Οθρυς’. 9. 15-76. (Translation)

2003             “The Houses.” Chapter 3 in: H.R. Reinders & W. Prummel (eds), Housing in New Halos. A Hellenistic Town in Thessaly, Greece, Lisse, Balkema.  37-79.

2002                With C. Dyer. Ενας Γεωμετρικος Κρατηρας απο τη Νεα Αλο. Αποτελεσματα της περιοδου σπουδης της Αλου τοθ 1992. Δελτιο Φιλαρχαιου Εταιρειας ‘η Οθρυς’. 7-20. (Translation)

2001             Das Niederländische Institut in Athen. In: Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike Vol. 13 (2). Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 690-694. Invited.

1999                Editor with Dr. A. Stathi-Schoorel, three proceedings on Desiderius Erasmus and his impact on the study of the Greek Classics. Pharos VII. 135-172.

1998.               “Baubo in de put. Resultaten van de opgravingen in huis 9 in Halos, 1997.” Paleoaktueel 9. 36-40.

1995.            “Social Dimensions of Domestic Architecture”. Archaeological Dialogues. 51-57. Invited.

1993.            With C. Dyer, “A Geometric Crater from New Halos: results of the 1992 study season.” Pharos I. 165-177.

1993.               With C. Dyer, “Een Geometrisch vondstcomplex in Nieuw Halos.” Paleoaktueel 4. 90-95.

1993.            “Housing in Hellenistic Halos.”, American Journal of Archaeology (conference abstract)

1992.               “Halos. Opgraven in Griekenland.” Scarabee.

1992.            “Halos 1991: A Preliminary Report”. Newsletter of the Netherlands Institute at Athens 4. 1-12.

1991.               With. H.R. Reinders. “Verwoesting door een aardbeving”. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 8. 16-26.

1990.               With S.E. Hijmans, “Archeologie ten toon. Enkele kanttekeningen bij archeologische tentoonstellingen”, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 6, 33-41.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Submitted.        Book Review of  Zimmer G. & A. Furtwängler. 2003. Demetrias 6. Hellenistische Bronzegußwerkstätten. Lampenproduktion und –importe. Amphorenfunde. Würzburg, Ergon Verlag. 156 pp. For Bulletin Antieke Beschaving.

2005                The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC. Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West. [Acts of a Meeting held at the Danish Institute at Athens, November 1999]. Ed. Inge Nielsen. 2001. In: Bulletin Antieke Beschaving.

1991.               The Politics of the Past. One World Archaeology 12. London 1990. P. Gathercole & D. Lowenthal (eds),. In: Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 7. 43-45.

 

Other publications

2000                Foreword in: Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt. Catalogue of an exhibition in the National Gallery at Athens, the Netherlands Institute at Athens (28 Sept. 2000-8 Jan. 2001) and the Museum at Dordrecht (3 feb-May 2001). Dordrecht, De Longte.

1999                A Handsome House to Lodge a Friend. The New Premises of the Netherlands Institute at Athens. Pharos. Vol. VII. 1-21.

1999                Foreword in: To Tragoudi ton Kymaton. Ellenikes kai Ollandikes Istories gia tin Thalassa. Athens, Fitrakis Publishers.

1998                Editor, Continuous Motion. Catalogue of an exhibition on the Dutch Graphic artist Maurits C. Escher. Thessalonica, November 1997. Athens January 1998.

1995                Contribution to D. Koster. To Hellen’s Noble Land. Groningen, Styx Publications. Catalogue of the exhibition on Dutch travellers and travel accounts in relation to Greece. May 1995, Gennadeios Library Athens.