Contested Archaeological Heritage in Greece

Esther Solomon, Assistant Professor, Museum Studies, University of Ioannina, Greece

Esther Solomon is an Assistant Professor in Museum Studies at the University of Ioannina. She studied archaeology, museology and social anthropology at the University of Ioannina (BA), the Universita’ Internazionale dell’Arte in Florence (Diploma), the University of Sheffield (MA) and the University College London (PhD). She has worked as curator in several museums in Greece and abroad and has published extensively in Greek and foreign journals and edited volumes. Her research interests focus on museum representations, the social and political uses of the past, material culture and social identity as well as on cultural memory and tourism. Her book “Contested Antiquity: Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Greece and Cyprus” is due out in 2020 by Indiana University Press.

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