Artemis Papatheodorou

Artemis Papatheodorou is a cultural historian specializing in the history of archaeology and heritage, and the classical reception in the Ottoman long 19th century. Her PhD (University of Oxford, 2018) discusses the laws on antiquities developed by the Ottoman central state and the autonomous Principality of Samos, as well as the archaeology-related activities of the Hellenic Literary Society at Constantinople. Artemis has taught at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece. In the academic year 2022-2023, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. As an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies with CHS, Harvard University, Artemis will be studying the reception of Alexander the Great by the Turcophone Greek Orthodox in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. Besides English and Greek, she speaks French and Turkish and reads Ottoman Turkish.