Despina Chatzivasiliou

Since September 2019, Despina Chatzivasiliou has been a research engineer at the Collège de France associated with four chairs at the Institute of Civilizations (Jean-Pierre Brun, Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean ; Jean-Luc Fournet, Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology ; Dario Mantovani, Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome ; Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World), whose main research interests cover various aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity, based on extensive textual, iconographic and archaeological corpuses. Her doctoral thesis focused on archaic religious topography and the structuring of urban and peri-urban space in ancient cities and regions. Her fields of research are interdisciplinary: ancient sciences, archaeology, ancient history, history of religions, anthropology, topography, urbanization and the editing of ancient texts.
Despina Chatzivasiliou is closely involved in the projects of the Chairs of the Mediterranean Worlds cluster, and participates in publications, as well as in the expansion and exploitation of databases currently under development. A study of the history of the Collège de France and its early lectures, in close collaboration with the Archives, is currently in preparation.