Helène Whittaker
| Helène Whittaker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 March 1958 Trondheim, Norway |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Canadian, Norwegian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Toronto, University of Tromsø |
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Helène Whittaker (born 13 March 1958) is a Canadian-Norwegian archaeologist and scholar of antiquity. She has written extensively on topics relating to the Bronze Age Aegean, ancient Greek and Roman language and culture, and Early Christianity. As of 2022[update], she is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg in the Sweden.[1]
Education
Whittaker studied languages and archeology at the University of Bergen, finishing her candidata philologiae in 1983. She continued her studies at the University of Tromsø and the University of Toronto, completing a PhD in 1996.[1]
Academic career
Having been a senior lecturer at the University of Tromsø in 1994–2004, she was promoted to full professor at the same university in 2004. In 2009, she was the Peter W. Warren visiting professor in Aegean prehistory at the University of Bristol.[1] In 2013, she accepted the position as professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg.[2] Together with Maria Vaïopoulou, she directed the Greek-Swedish Vlochos Archaeological Project at Thessalian Vlochos in 2016–2018.[3]
Awards and honours
- Member of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg.[4]
- Member of the Academia Europaea.[5]
Selected publications
- Vaïopoulou, Maria; Whittaker, Helene; Rönnlund, Robin; Tsiouka, Fotini; Klange, Johan; Pitman, Derek; Potter, Rich; Shaw, Lawrence; Hagan, Josephine; Siljedahl, Ellen; Forssén, Matilda; Chandrasekaran, Sujatha; Dandou, Sotiria; Forsblom Ljungdahl, Veronica; Pavilionytė, Asta; Scott-Pratt, Hayden; Schager, Elisabet; Manley, Harry (2020). "The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece". Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. 13: 7–72. doi:10.30549/opathrom-13-02.
- Whittaker, Helène (2018). "Approaches to Popular Religion in Late Bronze Age Greece". In Vavouranakis, Giorgos; Kopanias, Konstantinos; Kanellopoulos, Chrysanthos. Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 55–62. Search this book on
- Whittaker, Helène (2014). Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107049871. Search this book on
- Reviewed[6]
- Whittaker, Helène (1997). Mycenaean Cult Buildings. A Study of their Architecture and Function in the Context of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Search this book on
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Curriculum Vitae – Helene Whittaker
- ↑ University of Gothenburg – Helene Whittaker
- ↑ The Vlochos Archaeological Project
- ↑ "Ledamöter, Kungliga Vitterhets- och Vetenskapssamhället i Göteborg". Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ↑ "Helène Whittaker, Academia Europea". Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ↑ PULLEN, DANIEL J. (2015). "Review of Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece, Helène Whittaker". The Classical World. 108 (4): 580–581. ISSN 0009-8418.
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