Florence Gaignerot-Driessen

I am an archaeologist specializing in the Aegean world during the Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Archaic period. I earned my PhD from the Sorbonne, Paris, in 2013. My current research interest focuses on state and social group formation and transformation in Early Greece and more specifically on the emergence of the Cretan cities (see publications).

Before moving to Cincinnati, I have taught Classics in France (Amiens, Paris and Lille) and in Belgium (Brussels and Louvain) and have stayed at the universities of Heidelberg and Ca'Foscari in Venice, respectively as Humboldt postdoctoral researcher and F.M. Carinci fellow in Aegean Prehistory. I remain an associate researcher at the CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient, Lyon; the French School at Athens; and the Aegis group, UCLouvain.

I have a long and extensive experience of fieldwork in Crete. Since 2017, I have been directing an archaeological project of excavations and study in the Early Iron Age settlement, necropolis and sanctuaries of Anavlochos, in Eastern Crete, under the auspices of the French School at Athens. For this project I was awarded several grants, notably from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), the INSTAP-Study Center for East Crete, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the American Institute of America (Richard C. MacDonald Iliad Endowment for Archaeological Research), Archéologie et Patrimoine en Méditerranée, Prix Clio and the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. In the next few years, one of my priorities will be to complete the publication of the results with my team.
I am also involved in the excavations conducted in the Late Bronze Age settlement of Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus (UGent & UCLouvain).

PhD: Paris-Sorbonne University 2013 (Greek archaeology)

MA: Paris-Sorbonne University 2002 (Ancient history)

MA: Paris-Sorbonne University 1997 (Classical philology)

BA: Paris-Sorbonne University 1996 (Classical philology)

Formation processes of the Greek city-states in the Aegean (Late Bronze Age-Archaic)
Settlement patterns in the Late Bronze Age-Archaic Aegean
Upland settlements in the Mediterranean (Late Bronze Age-Archaic)
Early Iron Age funerary tumuli in the Aegean
Aegean sanctuaries (Late Bronze Age-Archaic)
Mediterranean coroplastic studies (Late Bronze Age-Classical)
Homeric studies
 

2013 -2015 Visiting Assistant Professor (ATER), Université de Picardie, Amiens

2020 -2021 Visiting Assistant Professor (ATER), Université de Lille,

2016 -2018 Humboldt postdoctoral researcher, Universität Heidelberg,

2019 -2019 F.M. Carinci fellow in Aegean prehistory, Università Ca'Foscari, Venice

2018 -2021 Temporary lecturer (part-time), Institut catholique de Paris,