Antonis Kotsonas
Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology
Faculty Secretary, AY2024-25
Antonis Kotsonas is Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from the University of Crete.
The research of Kotsonas research focuses on the material culture and socio-economic history of Greece and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic and Classical periods, while his broader research interests extend from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. He has conducted fieldwork and finds research on Crete, and in the Cyclades, Euboea, Macedonia and Latium; and comparative studies across the Aegean, and from Italy to Cyprus. He co-directs the excavation of the ancient Greek and Roman city Lyktos in Crete, Greece.
The publications of Kotsonas engage problems in the production and consumption of pottery and sculpture, state formation, trade and interaction, identity and commensality, memory, the materiality of writing, the history of Greek and Mediterranean archaeology, and the relevance of antiquity to contemporary discourses. Kotsonas is the author of The Archaeology of Tomb A1K1 of Orthi Petra in Eleutherna (Athens 2008), and The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery (Athens and New York 2024); and he is co-author of Methone Pierias I: Inscriptions, Graffiti and Trademarks on Geometric and Archaic Pottery from the ‘Ypogeio’ of Methone Pierias in Macedonia (Thessaloniki 2012). Additionally, he has edited: Understanding Standardization and Variation in Mediterranean Ceramics: Mid 2nd to Late 1st Millennium BC (Leuven 2014); and co-edited the Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean (2020), and Crises, “Dark Ages,” and Problems of Archaeological Visibility in the Mediterranean of the Mid-1st Millennium BCE (Forthcoming). Also, he is Area Editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
Prior to joining NYU, Antonis Kotsonas was Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Crete, and King’s College London. He also served as Curator at the Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam. Kotsonas has held a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2017-2018), he has received the Rising Star Award from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Cincinnati (2018), and he is the Visiting Professor of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, which involves lecturing across Australia in summer 2018.