Christina received a B.A. in History and Archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she studied the material and textual culture of the Ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on the Aegean. At ISAW, her research focuses on the History and Archaeology of the Mediterranean during the late 2nd and early 1st millennium BCE, with a particular interest in processes of interconnection fostered by the heightened mobility of different agents, materials, objects, and technologies. Through her dissertation project titled “Written Wor(l)ds: An Archaeology of Alphabetic Writing in the Iron Age Mediterranean,” she investigates the variability of Mediterranean interconnectivity and how the material and embodied practice of inscribing objects can be the instigator and the outcome of socio-cultural Mediterranean interactions. Christina is also interested in Digital Humanities, and computational approaches to archaeological fieldwork and research, including 3D modeling and GIS spatial analysis.
Christina is involved in the Lyktos Archaeological project (Crete) since 2019, as a Sector supervisor and head of the topography team. She has also participated in excavations and field projects in Northern Italy (Riparo Tagliente) and Greece (Ierapetra on Crete, Raphena and Marathon in Attika, Rodafnidia on Lesbos, and Popovo in Thesprotia), which cover a chronological spam from the Palaeolithic period to the Roman era. As part of her internship in the Ephorate of Speleology in Athens, she studied part of the pottery and lithic technology recovered from the Theopetra cave, the Koutroulou Magoula, and the Kalamakia cave. She also did volunteer work at the Conservation Laboratory of UoA and at the Archaeological Museum of Chios for the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chios.