Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw is trained in Greek (Prehistoric, Classical and Byzantine) Archaeology, Western History of Art, and Education. She specialises in the archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age, particularly Minoan Crete. She has been research-active for over twenty five years and has diverse interests, including archaeologies of the body, ceramics, religion, artefact databases and reception studies, the latter with reference to replication, education and nationalism. She has published and presented extensively. She also regularly engages with schools, media and wider publics.

Anna is currently primarily a researcher with MOLA, and also conducts her Aegean Bronze Age research in collaboration with other relevant archaeological teams. She teaches Archaeology at the Continuing Education departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. She is an AHRC Peer Review College Member, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, and a Permanent Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Germany.