Prof. Dr. Olga Karagiorgou

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsAncient History,Medieval History
KeywordsAdministration of the Byzantine State, Byzantine Studies, Prosopography of the Byzantine World, Sigillography, Late Antique Archaeology
Honours and awards

2023: "Vaso Penna" International Award for the volume TAKTIKON: Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata, eds. Olga Karagiorgou, Pantelis Charalampakis, Christos Malatras, Athens: Research Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art of the Academy of Athens 2021. 900 p., 638 coloured photos, 241 b&w photos, 6 coloured maps (ISBN 978-960-404-392-7).

2021: Research Award, Research Committee of the Academy of Athens

2020: Research Award, Operational Program"Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference 2014-2020 (45.000,00 euros)

2014: "ARISTEIA II" (Excellence Award), Operational Program"Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference 2007-2013 (200.000,00 euros)

2006: Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

2003: Post-doctoral scholarship award by the Hellenic Scholarship Foundation

2001: Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

Current contact address

CountryGreece
CityAthens
InstitutionAcademy of Athens
InstituteCentre for the Study of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art
Homepagehttp://www.academyofathens.gr/en/researchers/karagiorgou

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johannes G. DeckersInstitut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Albrecht BergerInstitut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2006

Programme(s)

2005Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Olga Karagiorgou: About literacy, herecy, iconography and political ambition on the seals of Nikephoros Botaneiates (ca. 1001/2-1081) (in Greek with English summary). In: Byzantina Symmeikta, 2008, 77-122
2008Olga Karagiorgou: Mapping trade by the amphora: potentialities, restrictions, possible future directions. In: Marlia Mango, Byzantine Trade (4th-12th c.): Recent Archaeological Work, Proceedings of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Oxford University: 27-29 March 2004), Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 14 . Ashgate, 2008.
2008Olga Karagiorgou: On the way to the throne: the career of Nikephoros III Botaneiates before 1078. In: Christos Stavrakos, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou, Mesrob K. Krikorian, Hypermachos: Studien zur Byzantinistik, Armenologie und Georgistik. Festschrift für Werner Seibt zum 65. Geburtstag. 2008. 105-132
2008C. S. Lightfoot, Olga Karagiorgou, O. Kocyigit, H. Yaman, P. Linscheid and J. Foley: The Amorion Project: Excavation and Research in 2003. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2008, 353-385
2006Olga Karagiorgou: Die sigillographische Sammlung des Benaki Museums in Athen. In: Studies in Byzantine Sigillography , 2006, 33-47
2006Olga Karagiorgou: Istoria tou Byzantiou . Nefeli, 2006
2006Olga Karagiorgou: Review of the book by A.-K. Wassiliou and Werner Seibt, Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel in Österreich. 2. Teil: Zentral- und Provinzialverwaltung, Vienna 2004.. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2006, 694-702
2004Olga Karagiorgou: The quarry of Omorphochori near Larissa and its contribution to Byzantine Art. Archaeological Evidence on Manufacturing Installations during the Byzantine Period, 5th-15th centuries (22nd Symposion for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Archaeology and Art, Athens, 17-19 May, 2002). 2004. 183-219
2001Olga Karagiorgou: Demetrias and Thebes: the fortunes and misfortunes of two Thessalian port-cities in Late Antiquity. In: Luke Lavan, Recent Research in Late Antique Urbanism, Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplementary Series No. 42). 2001. 182-215
2001Olga Karagiorgou: The Late Roman 2 amphora: a container for the military annona on the Danubian border?. In: Sean Kingsley, Michael Decker, Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. Oxbow, 2001. 129-166