Professor Catherine Morgan
My research focuses on island societies in Classical antiquity, examining the long-term resilience of island states, the formation of economic networks, and the impacts of warfare and human mobility on multiple scales. I work mainly in the Ionian islands and northwestern Greece. I have directed fieldwork on Ithaca on behalf of the British School at Athens and currently collaborate on the publication of excavations in Thesprotia and Akarnania, and on Kephallonia, Leukas, and Meganisi. I am also interested in industrial archaeology, the archaeology of religion, and the history of archaeological research in Greece. With Chris Hayward (Edinburgh), I co-direct a survey of the limestone quarries at Kenchreai in the eastern Corinthia. This aims to reconstruct the history and organisation of stone extraction and the impact of over a millennium of quarry activity on local settlement and supply chains.
Selected Publications
in S. Verdan, S. Fachard, and T. Theurillat (eds), Reconstructing Greek Sacred Landscape: Dynamics and Approaches from the Field. Proceedings of the Round Table held at the Fondation Hardt, Vandouevres, February 2-4, 2023, Oxford: Archaeopress, 139-160.
in Context. Proceedings of the International Workshop ‘Archaic ‘Elian Style’ Pottery in Western Greece’, Norwegian Institute at Athens, November 18, 2022 (Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 15), Athens: Norwegian Institute at Athens.
in J. Hilditch and M. Revello Lami (eds), Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 53-90.
Oxford: Archaeopress.
London: Routledge.
Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.