Dr. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Archaeologist

Dr. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Archaeologist

Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw is a graduate of the Department of Archaeology and Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete, has obtained a MA in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Bristol (UK) and a PhD in Minoan Archaeology from the same University. 

She has received scholarships and funding for study and her own research from the National Institute for Funding (Greece), the University of Bristol, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (USA). She has also received funding for postdoctoral research by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (USA). 

She has worked at the University of Oxford (shortly at the Institute of Archaeology), at the Universities of Bristol and Reading (Continuing Education), at the University of Bournemouth (Conservation Studies), the University of Crete, as well as the International Baccalaureate (as a researcher for International Education). She currently works in the UK lecturing in Archaeology at a variety of institutions, among others at Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent, and the Continuing Education departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. She also teaches Modern Greek at the Foreign Languages Centre (Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies), University of Bath. Finally, she is also an External Examiner for Modern Greek for the University of Nottingham. 

She is actively involved with a number of research projects which focus on the archaeology of Crete, either as a principal investigator or as a member. She collaborates closely with all the archaeological services of the island and often with specific museums, e.g. the Archaeological Museum in Herakleion, as well as the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford). She takes part in conferences in Greece and abroad with presentations and academic papers.

Research interests: prehistoric archaeology, Minoan archaeology, material culture studies (especially pottery), the relationship between archaeology and politics, society and education, also International Education, and the teaching of Greek, Ancient and Modern.    

Personal webpage: http://www.anna-simandiraki.co.uk/index.htm