Eirini Chryssoheri / Visual Anthropologist / Archaeologist
Research
Research Projects
2018
Research fellow,
the Honor Frost Foundation, U.K. in the oral history project «Soundings: The Frost interview project».
Responsible for interviewing maritime archaeologists in Greece and Egypt for the H.F.F. Oral History Archive.
2017
Research fellow,
the Honor Frost Foundation, U.K. in preparing the editing of the «proceedings of the 8th, 9th and 10th Tropis, International Conferences on Ship Construction in Antiquity».
2015-2016
Researcher,
the European Program ITHACA- «Innovation Technologies and Applications for Coastal Archaeological Sites», Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology (H.I.M.A./I.EN.A.E.). My contribution to the program was to collect, record and document archaeological finds from the underwater archaeological excavations of the Institute in the Pagasetic Golf in Greece.
Conferences
2009
Wachsmann, S., Tsoukala, V., Sakellariou, D., Davis, D., Smith, C., Buxton, B., Maroulakis, S., Rousakis, G., Georgiou, P., Hale, J., Hohlfelder, R., Griffin, D., Theodoridou, D., Chyssocheri, E., Fix, P.
«The Danaos project, 2008: Reconstructing the Crete to Egypt route».
Collective paper presented at the 9th Pan-Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Patra.
2007
Harry E. Tzalas, Irene Chryssocheri,
«The Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Greek Mission in Alexandria, Egypt (1998-2006)».
In the International DEGUWA- In Poseidons Reich XII Conference, Cologne.
2005
«Underwater archaeological parks: thoughts on their necessity. The example of the Eastern harbour of Alexandria».
In Tropis IX: 9th Symposium of Ship Construction in Antiquity, Agia Napa, Cyprus.
2005
Harry E. Tzalas, Irene Chryssocheri,
«The Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Greek Mission in Alexandria, Egypt: 1998-2004».
Paper presented at the Conference of the Institute of Underwater Archaeological Research (IENAE): «30 years of underwater research: from Pelagonisi to Korakia», May 20-22, Athens.
Collective Publications
2011
Wachsmann, S., S. Demesticha, I. Chryssoheri, and K.L. Croff Bell (2011).
«Archaeological discoveries on Eratosthenes seamount»,
in Bell K.L.C. and S. Fuller S. (eds) New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season, Oceanography 24(1).
2009
Wachsmann, S., Tsoukala, V., Sakellariou, D., Davis, D., Smith, C., Buxton, B., Maroulakis, S., Rousakis, G., Georgiou, P., Hale, J., Hohlfelder, R., Griffin, D., Theodoridou, D., Chyssocheri, E., Fix, P.
«The Danaos project, 2008: Reconstructing the Crete to Egypt route»,
in the proceedings of the 9th Pan-Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Patras: HCMR-Patras University: 146-151.
2005
Tzalas, H., Chrysocheri, E. (2005).
«The Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Greek mission in Alexandria: 1998-2004»
in ENALIA, Athens (Τζάλας Χ., Χρυσοχέρη Ε., (2005). «Οι ενάλιες αρχαιολογικές έρευνες της ελληνικής αποστολής στην Αλεξάνδρεια: 1998-2004», ΕΝΑΛΙΑ, Αθήνα)
Lectures
2004
«A proposal for the establishment of a Maritime-Pharos Museum in Alexandria»,
in the Cultural Centre of the Egyptian Embassy in Athens.
Several lectures in Greece and Egypt on the
“Underwater archaeological surveys of the Greek mission in Alexandria”
Teaching experience
2019-2020
Visitor lecturer of Maritime Archaeology,
in courses attended by American undergraduate students.
Study Abroad Institution DIKEMES: International Centre for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies, Athens (in English)
2014
Lecturer of Archaeology in the “Summer School for Undergraduates”,
of the British School at Athens (BSA). A three-week residential course for UK-based undergraduates on “The Archaeology and Topography of Greece” (in English)
2008-2012
Visitor lecturer of Maritime Ethnography,
Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University (in English)
2007
Lecturer in a summer course in Underwater Archaeology,
Institute of Underwater Archaeological Research (IENAE)
2006-2008
Lecturer of undergraduate courses in Maritime Archaeology,
attended by American students at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) in Rhodes, Greece (in English)
2005-2007
Lecturer of Archaeology and Maritime Archaeology in schools,
“Platon School" (2005-2006), the “Athens College Elementary School" (2006-2007) and other private schools
Archaeological fieldwork
2001- 2016
Underwater excavations of the
Hellenic Institute of Ancient and Medieval Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria- Egypt,
as a diver archaeologist.
Director: Harris Tzalas (two field seasons per year)
2015-2016
Underwater excavation of the
Hellenic Institute of Marine
Archaeology (H.I.M.A./I.EN.A.E.)
in the Pagasitikos Gulf,
as a diver archaeologist.
Director: Ilias Spondilis.
2010
Ocean Exploration Trust. E/V Nautilus.
Geo-physical and deepwater archaeological research,
at the «Eratosthenes» seamount in Cyprus
2008
Deepwater archaeological survey: The Danaos project,
Reconstructing the Crete to Egypt route. A collaborative endeavour between the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) at Texas A&M University, the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) and the Hellenic Institute for Ancient and Medieval Alexandrian Studies (HIAMAS).
2007
Kyllene Harbour Project.
Interdisciplinary underwater archaeological and geophysical research at Kyllene/Glarentza harbour, as a diver archaeologist.
Finnish Institute at Athens and the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities
2006-2007
Underwater excavation of the
Hellenic Institute of Marine
Archaeology (H.I.M.A./I.EN.A.E.)
in the Pagasitikos Gulf,
as a diver archaeologist.
Director: Ilias Spondilis.
2004 & 2006
Cape Sounion Project.
Underwater archaeological and geophysical research, as a diver archaeologist.
Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in collaboration with the Laboratory of Physical Geology and Oceanography,
University of Patras
Director: Kalliopi Baika
2006
Underwater excavation of the
Hellenic Institute of Marine
Archaeology (H.I.M.A./I.EN.A.E.) in the Argosaronikos gulf,
as a diver archaeologist.
Director: Christos Agouridis
2005
Geo-archaeological research at the harbours of Ramnous, Eastern Attica.
Coastal and underwater archaeological research under the direction of the
Archaeological Society at Athens and
University of Oxford,
as a diver archaeologist
Directors: D. Blackman, V. Petrakos
2005
Rock-cut naval Bases in the Aegean Sea (2000-2006).
Underwater archaeological research and topographical documentation of the rock-cut slipways in Crete (Trypitos, Matala, Rethymnon), and the Aegean (Kea, Sounion), as a diver archaeologist.
Director: Kalliopi Baika
1999
Land excavations of the 20th Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities Administration
as contract archaeologists
Director: Aglaia Archondidou
1993
Land excavations at Minoa,
Amorgos, Greece
Director: Professor Lila Maragou
1992
Land excavations at Oiniades- Messolongi, Greece
Director: Professor E. Papoutsaki-Serbeti
