Last name: DIMAKIS Name: NIKOLAS Date of birth: 26/06/1984 Current position: Research Fellow Address: Department of Archaeology and History of Art, School of Philosophy, Research Projects Office (4 th floor, room 419), University of Athens, University Campus, GR 15784 Athens Office phone: +30 210 7277306 E-mail: nikdim26@yahoo.gr RESEARCH INTERESTS Funerary Archaeology, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic burial customs, Childhood and Gender Archaeology, Archaeology of ancient Greek religion, Archaeology of Hellenistic Mainland Greece and Asia Minor, Archaeology of Dodecanese, Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexander the Great and successors. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012-2015: Research Fellow in THALES - UoA - The Apollo Sanctuary and the Late Roman Settlement in Halasarna (Kos). The history of an ancient sanctuary, its decline and its final transformation into a Late Roman/Early Christian settlement Project of Excellence cofinanced by the EU (European Social Fund ESF) and Greek national funds through the operational programme Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Research Funding Programme: THALES. EDUCATION 2008-2012: Ph.D in Archaeology, University of Nottingham, U.K. Thesis: Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials 2007-2008: MA Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, U.K. Dissertation: Individual Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Burials of Argos. General Mark: Distinction 2002-2007: BA in Archaeology and History of Art, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. GPA: 7,57 [British equivalent 2.1] FURTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2010: Lecturing for Learning, offered by the University of Nottingham 2007-2008: Tradition of Critique I, offered by the University of Nottingham 2004-2005: Ancient Epigraphy, offered by the Institute of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation. 2004-2005: Ancient Numismatic, Production and Metrological Problems, offered by the Institute of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation. 2004-2005: Physical Anthropology and Human Osteology, offered by the Department of Physical Anthropology, School of Biology, University of Athens 2003-2004: Architecture of Ancient Greece, offered by the Archaeological Society at Athens. 2003: Principles of Conservation of Archaeological Finds: rescuing-managing-storing of materials offered by the National Centre for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R) DEMOKRITOS, Athens. 1
FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS LANGUAGES Modern Greek (native) English (fluent reading, writing and speaking) French (fluent reading, writing and speaking) Italian (reading, verbal skills) German (reading) Ancient Greek (fluent reading, writing) Latin (fluent reading, writing) COMPUTING ECDL Core Certificate for the very good knowledge of Windows and MS Office. Competent user of Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and AutoCAD. User of 3D Scanner for portable finds DIVING Scuba diving (PADI Open Water Diver) PUBLICATIONS PAPERS AND ARTICLES Dimakis, N. 2011. The Display of Individual Status in the Burials of Classical and Hellenistic Argos, in H. Cavanagh, W.G. Cavanagh, J. Roy (eds.) Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, Proceedings of the International Conference held at Sparta in April 2009, CSPS Online Publication 2 [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/open-source/hounouring-thedead.aspx] Dimakis, N. 2011. Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials - an overview, in Savvopoulos K (ed) Proceedings of the 2 nd Hellenistic Studies International Workshop. Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. BOOK Dimakis, N. Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials (forthcoming). CURRENT RESEARCH Dimakis, N. Λυχνάρια από το Ιερό του Απόλλωνος στην Αλάσαρνα της Κω Dimakis, N. Premature death in Classical Argos: child burials in clay-tubs Dimakis, N., and A. Banaka. Dead men tell (no) stories: reconstructing Argos of the Classical period. 2
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES 2011: Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials, 1 st CSPS Postgraduate Conference, Understanding the Peloponnese: Work-in- Progress, Nottingham U.K., 11 th -12 th March. 2010: Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials - an overview, 2 nd Hellenistic Studies International Workshop, Alexandria Egypt, 4 th -10 th July. 2009: The Display of Individual Status in the Burials of Classical and Hellenistic Argos, Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese International Conference, Sparta Greece, 23 rd -26 th April. LECTURES 2013: Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese: the evidence from burials, at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens (DAI), 13 th March. ORGANISED CONFERENCES 2012: Coordinator of the International Conference Sacred Landscapes in the Peloponnese: from Prehistory to post-byzantine times, the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), in collaboration with the 5 th EPKA, the 5 th EBA and the Municipality of Sparta, in Sparta, Greece, 30 th March- 1 st April. 2011: Coordinator of the 1 st CSPS Postgraduate Conference, Understanding the Peloponnese: Work-in- Progress, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), the University of Nottingham, in Nottingham, U.K., 11 th -12 th March. 2009: Assistant in the International Conference Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with the Municipality of Sparta, Archaeological Institute for Peloponnesian Studies-Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the British School at Athens (BSA), in Sparta Greece, 23 rd -26 th April. 2006: Assistant in the International Conference Mesohelladika, The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age, the French School at Athens (EFA), in collaboration with the American School of Classical Studies (ASCSA) and the Nederland Institute at Athens (NIA), in Athens Greece, 9 th - 11 th March. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2010-2011: Seminar leader for the module Precise Topic in Archaeology: Greek Death in Comparative Perspective, University of Nottingham. 2011-2012: Seminar leader for the module Topography of the Peloponnese: from prehistory to Hellenistic times, University of Nottingham. 2011, 2013: Exams invigilator 3
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE 2012: trench supervisor and pottery specialist at Kardamaina (Ancient Halasarna) on Kos (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2010: trench supervisor at Plaka (ancient Prassiai) in Cynouria, Greece (ΛΘ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). 2009: participant in the excavation of a Classical and Hellenistic burial plot at Argos (D Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). 2008: trench supervisor at Kardamaina (Ancient Halasarna) on Kos (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2006: supervisor s assistant at Kardamaina (Ancient Halasarna) on Kos (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2006: participant in the excavation of Diogeneion Gymnasion at the North Slope of Acropolis in Athens (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2005: head of survey team at the plain of Kardamaina (Ancient Halasarna) on Kos (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2004: trench supervisor at Argos, digital photographing of Argos Archaeological museum exhibits for the creation of a museum catalogue of exhibits (D Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). 2004: participant in excavations at Argos and Spiliotaki and the restoration project of Tiryns citadel (fieldwork educational program EPEAEK II, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens). 2003: participant in excavations in the Argolid (D Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY 2011: underwater archaeologist and pottery specialist at Pavlopetri in Laconia (Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology). 2010: underwater archaeologist and pottery specialist at Pavlopetri in Laconia (British School at Athens). MUSEUM EXPERIENCE 2009: digital photographing and recording of the archaeological material uncovered from a large Classical and Hellenistic burial plot at Argos (D Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). 2007: sorted, recorded and photographed the private archaeological collection of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) at Athens. 2003: digital photographing of Argos Archaeological museum exhibits for the creation of a museum catalogue of exhibits (D Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities). 2002: participant in the installation of the exhibition Minoans and Mycenaeans: flavours of their time, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, U.K., 13 July 2002-5 January 2003. FIELDTRIPS 2005: South Italy and Sicily (Magna Graecia) 2006: Southwest Asia Minor (Caria, Cilicia, Ionia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia) 4
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2011-2012: The Greek Archaeological Committee s (U.K.) Matti Egon Scholarship II ( 2500). 2010-2011: The Greek Archaeological Committee s (U.K.) Matti Egon Scholarship I ( 6500), The University of Nottingham Alumni Scholarship ( 340), The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust award for academic excellence ( 1100). 2009-2010: The Greek Archaeological Committee s (U.K.) Matti Egon Scholarship I ( 5400) and Matti Egon Scholarship II ( 1300), The University of Nottingham Alumni Scholarship ( 340), The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust award for academic excellence ( 1000) 2008-2009: The Greek Archaeological Committee s (U.K.) Matti Egon Scholarship II ( 5000), the University of Nottingham Alumni Scholarship ( 340). GRANTS AND BURSARIES 2012: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies grant ( 500) for organizing the 3rd Hellenistic Studies International (Postgraduate) Workshop on Death and Society in the Hellenistic World in Alexandria Egypt. 2006: The J.F.Costopoulos Foundation bursary for visiting scholars, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), the University of Nottingham. FUNDRAISING EXPERIENCE 2011: Fundraising expedition team member in the USA (NY and NJ) for the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), the University of Nottingham, U.K. MEMBERSHIPS Since 2010: Member of the Managing Committee of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), the University of Nottingham, Nottingham U.K. Since 2010: Member of the Alexandria Centre for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Alexandria Egypt. MISCELLANEA Greek, English and French modern literature, history of art, painting and drawing, photography, playing the violin. 5