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Eleni Hasaki

  • Professor, Anthropology
  • Professor, Religious Studies / Classics
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 626-1398
  • Emil W. Haury Anth. Bldg., Rm. 122A
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • hasakie@arizona.edu
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Biography

Eleni Hasaki (Associate Professor, Anthropology/Classics) received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of Athens, Greece and, as a Fulbright scholarship recipient, she continued her graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati where she received her Ph.D. She  is a Mediterranean archaeologist whose research focuses on the craft technologies of Classical antiquity, the spatial organization of workshops, craft apprenticeship, and the negotiation of social status through crafts, especially ceramics. She combines archaeological, textual, and ethnoarchaeological evidence in her projects. Her archaeological fieldwork in Greece (Paros, Cyclades), the ethnoarchaeological project in Tunisia (Moknine) and an experimental open-air lab for pyrotechnology locally (Tucson) promote the knowledge of crafts both in antiquity and its relevance for modern societies.  As the co-director of the Laboratory for Traditional Technology at the School of Anthropology she works with students on experimental projects of Mediterranean focus. Her research has been funded by major institutions including the Archaeological Institute of America, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Dr. Hasaki’s teaching ranges from 300-student introduction courses on Greek Art and Archaeology to upper undergraduate courses, and graduate seminars.  She engages students in the close analysis of the classical cultures of the Mediterranean, especially the relationships between stylistic and technological changes of the material culture and their wider social contexts. Hasaki works closely with the Honors College as an Honors Professor  and as Flinn Scholar Mentor. She has advised graduate students in over 30 thesis committees. In terms of global experience 2009, Dr. Hasaki was elected to be the  Gertrude Smith Professor for the prestigious and intensive Summer Program at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and she has established the Arizona in the Aegean Summer Study Abroad program in the Cyclades (Greece). Since 2014 she is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the School of Anthropology.

She has been invited to lecture at several institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. She has served on international conference review boards and as a reviewer on grant and fellowship committees for major organizations, including Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Association of University Women , and the Archaeological Institute of America. She currently serves as the President of the Tucson Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and she has served as the Vice-President of the Tucson Hellenic Cultural Foundation.

For more info, please visit http://anthropology.arizona.edu/user/eleni-hasaki
 

Awards

  • GPSC Award for Outstanding Faculty for Graduate and Professional Students
    • GPSC, Fall 2022
  • Five Star Teaching Award Finalist Recognition (5 out of 180)
    • Honors College- University of Arizona, Spring 2016 (Award Finalist)
  • Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar Fellowship
    • What type of organization made the award?: Classics Department, University of Cincinnati;Description: 2010 Residence Research Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati Classics Department;, Fall 2010
    • What type of organization made the award?: Classics Department, University of Cincinnati;Description: 2009; Residence Research Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati Classics Department;, Fall 2009

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Courses

2024-25 Courses

  • Directed Research
    ANTH 392 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ANTH 465 (Spring 2025)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ARH 465 (Spring 2025)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ARH 565 (Spring 2025)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 465 (Spring 2025)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 565 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Spring 2025)
  • Honors Thesis
    NROS 498H (Spring 2025)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Grk/Roman Lit, Hist/Arch
    CLAS 596A (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 499 (Fall 2024)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2024)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2024)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2024)
  • Preceptorship
    CLAS 491 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Ancient Greek Technology
    ANTH 430 (Spring 2024)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 430 (Spring 2024)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 530 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Spring 2024)
  • Preceptorship
    CLAS 491 (Spring 2024)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2024)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2023)
  • Research
    ANTH 900 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ANTH 465 (Spring 2023)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ARH 465 (Spring 2023)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ARH 565 (Spring 2023)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 465 (Spring 2023)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 565 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Spring 2023)
  • Master's Report
    ANTH 909 (Spring 2023)
  • Preceptorship
    RELI 491 (Spring 2023)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2022)
  • Master's Report
    ANTH 909 (Fall 2022)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Grk/Roman Lit, Hist/Arch
    CLAS 596A (Spring 2022)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2022)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Fall 2021)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 399 (Fall 2021)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 599 (Fall 2021)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2021)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2021)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2021)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ANTH 465 (Spring 2021)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ANTH 565 (Spring 2021)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    ARH 465 (Spring 2021)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 465 (Spring 2021)
  • Greek Pottery: Craft & Society
    CLAS 565 (Spring 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Spring 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Spring 2021)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2021)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ANTH 462 (Fall 2020)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ANTH 562 (Fall 2020)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ARH 462 (Fall 2020)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ARH 562 (Fall 2020)
  • Classical and Controversial
    CLAS 462 (Fall 2020)
  • Classical and Controversial
    CLAS 562 (Fall 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    ANTH 498H (Fall 2020)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2020)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2020)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Ancient Greek Technology
    ANTH 430 (Spring 2020)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 430 (Spring 2020)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 530 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CHS 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HIST 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Spring 2020)
  • Internship
    HUMS 593 (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Grk/Roman Lit, Hist/Arch
    CLAS 596A (Fall 2019)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2019)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2019)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 430 (Summer I 2019)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Summer I 2019)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2019)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Mediterranean Craft Tech & Env
    ANTH 341 (Summer I 2018)
  • Mediterranean Craft Tech & Env
    CLAS 341 (Summer I 2018)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Spring 2018)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    ANTH 313 (Spring 2018)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    CLAS 313 (Spring 2018)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    HPS 313 (Spring 2018)
  • Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
    RELI 313 (Spring 2018)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ANTH 462 (Fall 2017)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ARH 462 (Fall 2017)
  • Classical and Controversial
    ARH 562 (Fall 2017)
  • Classical and Controversial
    CLAS 462 (Fall 2017)
  • Classical and Controversial
    CLAS 562 (Fall 2017)
  • Dissertation
    ANTH 920 (Fall 2017)
  • Independent Study
    ANTH 299 (Fall 2017)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2017)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2017)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Ancient Greek Technology
    ANTH 430 (Spring 2017)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    ANTH 530 (Spring 2017)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 430 (Spring 2017)
  • Ancient Greek Technology
    CLAS 530 (Spring 2017)
  • Grk/Roman Lit, Hist/Arch
    CLAS 596A (Spring 2017)
  • Honors Independent Study
    CLAS 499H (Fall 2016)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ANTH 340A (Fall 2016)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    ARH 340A (Fall 2016)
  • Intro Greek Art+Arch
    CLAS 340A (Fall 2016)
  • Special Tops in Social Science
    HNRS 195H (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Honors Independent Study
    CLAS 399H (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    ANTH 399 (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 599 (Spring 2016)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

  • Hasaki, E. (2024). D. Elia, E. Hasaki, and M. Serino (Eds) Technology, Crafting, and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World. An INterdisciplinary Approach to Ancient Ceramics. Berlin/Boston 2024..
  • Hasaki, E. -. (2014). The Penteskouphia Plaques from Ancient Corinth and their Imagery of Potters at Work. Hesperia Supplements, American School of Classical Studies at Athens;.
    More info
    The Penteskouphia Plaques from Ancient Corinth and their Imagery of Potters at Work. Book manuscript; under contract with Hesperia Supplements, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 407 pp. ms and 130 pp. illustrations. Under contract;

Chapters

  • Hasaki, E. (2017). Potters and their Wheels in Ancient Greece: Skills and Secrets in Communities of Practice. In Proceedings of Colloque international: Archéologie des espaces artisanaux. Fouiller et comprendre les gestes des potiers. Université Rennes 2-Laboratoire LAHM France.
  • Hasaki, E., & DeLozier, R. (2017). Terracotta Statues From Ayia Irini, Kea: An Experimental Replication.. In E. Angliker (ed) Cycladic Archaeology: New Approaches and Discoveries. Archaeopress.
  • Hasaki, E. -. (2013). "Ch. 9: Craft Apprenticeship in Ancient Greece: Reaching beyond the Masters". In W. Wendrich (ed.), Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Acquiring Body Knowledge in the Ancient World,(pp 171–202). Tucson: The University of Arizona Press,.
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    ;Full Citation: Ch. 9: Craft Apprenticeship in Ancient Greece: Reaching beyond the Masters. W. Wendrich (ed.), Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Acquiring Body Knowledge in the Ancient World, The University of Arizona Press, 171-202;
  • Hasaki, E. -. (2012). Ch. 13: "Workshops and Technology,". In in T. J. Smith and D. Plantzos (eds.) A Companion to Greek Art,(pp 255–274). Oxford, England: Blackwell Publisher,.
  • Hasaki, E. -. (2011). Crafting Spaces: Archaeological, Ethnographic and Ethnoarchaeological Studies on Spatial Organization in Pottery Workshops in Greece and Tunisia. In J. Lund and M. Lawall (eds.), Proceedings of the workshop “Pottery in the Archaeological Record: A View from the Greek World”, June 20-22, 2008 at the Danish Institute in Athens(pp 12–24). Aarhus.
    More info
    ;Full Citation: “Spatial Allocation for Production and Storage in Pottery Workshops,” in J. Lund and M. Lawall (eds.), Proceedings of the workshop “Pottery in the Archaeological Record: A View from the Greek World”, June 20-22, 2008 at the Danish Institute in Athens and the Canadian Institute in Greece, 40 pp. ms; 8,600 words; 14 pp. illustrations;Status: Under Revision (Revise and Resubmit);

Journals/Publications

  • Hasaki, E. -., Sutton, R., & Kourayos, Y. (2014). Ceramics, Contacts, and Cult at a Cycladic Sanctuary of Apollo. Mandra on Despotiko, Paros (2001-2002). Hesperia.
  • Hasaki, E. -., & Kourayos, Y. (2017). The Early Imperial Pottery Workshop and the Earlier Phases at Skiada Plot, Paroikia, Paros. Archaeologikon Deltion (Meletes).
  • Hasaki, E. -., & Kondopoulou, D. (2014). Hasaki, E. and D. Kondopoulou, I. Zananiri, C. Rathossi, E. de Marco, and V. Spatharas, 2014. An Archaeomagnetic and Archaeological Approach on Hellenistic and Roman Ceramic Workshops in Greece.. Tree Ring Research 70, 27–38.
    More info
    Colleagues from University of Thessaloniki Despina Kondopoulou, Irene Zananiri, Christina Rathosi, Emanuela de Marco, Vasileios Spatharas
  • Kondopoulou, D., Zananiri, I., Rathossi, C., De Marco, E., Spatharas, V., & Hasaki, E. (2014). An archaeometric and archaeological approach to Hellenistic–Early Roman ceramic workshops in Greece: Contribution to dating. Radiocarbon, 56(4). doi:10.2458/azu_rc.56.18340
    More info
    The present article comprises a multidisciplinary archaeometric approach for the study of Hellenistic and Early Roman kilns in Greece. A collection of previously published and new archaeomagnetic data are combined with new results from mineralogical analytical experiments. The sampled material came from four areas, covering different geological contexts: Katerini, Olympiada, and Polymylos in mainland Greece, and the island of Paros. Extensive rock-magnetic experiments, including identification of the dominant ferromagnetic minerals present, their domain state, and mineralogical alterations during laboratory treatments, have been carried out in order to examine the magnetic properties of the studied materials and prove their suitability for reliable archaeomagnetic determinations. Magnetic cleaning provided well-defined archaeomagnetic directions, and archaeointensity measurements were carried out using both the Thellier-Thellier and Triaxe protocols. Information from both magnetic and mineralogical properties referring to firing conditions is further discussed along with archaeological information. Finally, a new dating of the four sites together with other structures of similar age was carried out using the Pavón-Carrasco model.

Proceedings Publications

  • Hasaki, E., & Nakas, Y. (2017, May). Maritime Trade, Politics, and Pottery Industry: The Penteskouphia Pinakes with Ship Scenes from Archaic Corinth. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology 13.
  • Hasaki, E. -., & Raptis, C. (2016, November). , Roman and Byzantine Ceramic Kilns in Greece (1st-15th c.) Continuities and Changes in Kiln Typology and Spatial Organization of Production. In Conference Proceedings, Archeologia delle produzioni ceramiche nel mondo antico: spazi, prodotti, strumente e tecniche. Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.

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