EDUCATION-2008: Doctor of Philosophy (Cum Laude), Department of History and Archaeology. School of Philosophy, University of Athens.-2001: Master of Studies in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford.-1999: Bachelor of Arts, Department of History and Archaeology. School of Philosophy, University of Athens.
RECENT RESEARCH/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
-2017-today: Postdoctoral scholar/assistant professor at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw within the project ‘Greek aristocratic culture (8th-5th centuries B.C.): the life-styles and the systems of values’, directed by Dr Habil. Marek Węcowski.
-2013-2015: Postdoctoral researcher in the European (ΕΣΠΑ) research programme ‘The Social Archaeology of Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greece’ at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA), University of Thessaly. Within this project, contract lecturer at IAKA teaching “Introduction to Bioarchaeology and Archaeometry” (ΑΡ2581) with T. Theodoropoulou, K. Trantalidou and G. Fakorellis.
-2009-2013: Postdoctoral researcher-Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens and at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens for the project entitled ‘The pottery from the ancient necropolis of Tsikalario on Naxos and its contribution to the knowledge of Cycladic pottery’.
-One of the principal researchers at the Fitch Laboratory/British School at Athens in interdisciplinary projects (‘The Ceramic Industry of Eretria’ and ‘Inscribed Transport Amphorae from Methone: An interdisciplinary study of production and trade’) focusing on the ancient ceramic industries of Eretria, Chalkis and Methone in Greece.
MAIN FIELDS OF SCIENTIFIC WORK
Classical Archaeology in Greece, Early Iron Age and Archaic material culture, life cycle of pottery, ceramic petrography, trade, economy and interconnectivity in the ancient Mediterranean, formation, life-styles and networking of elite and non-elite social groups.
Books
1. X. Charalambidou & C. Morgan (eds.), Interpreting the Seventh Century BC: Tradition and Innovation, Oxford: Archaeopress (2017).
2. A. Mazarakis Ainian, A. Alexandridou and X. Charalambidou (eds.), Regional Stories Towards a New Perception of the Early Greek world, Proceedings of the International Symposium in honour of Professor Jan Bouzek, University of Thessaly, IAKA Department, 18-21/6/2015, Volos: University of Thessaly Press (in press 2018).
Chapters in books
1. X. Charalambidou, ‘Euboea and the Euboean Gulf region: Pottery in Context’, in Charalambidou & Morgan 2017, 123-49.
2. X. Charalambidou & C. Morgan, ‘Introduction’, in Charalambidou & Morgan 2017, 1-8.
3. A. Vlachopoulos & X. Charalambidou, ‘Naxos and the Cyclades’, in I.S. Lemos & A. Kotsonas (eds.), A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, Oxford (forthcoming).
Journal articles
1.X. Charalambidou, ‘The pottery from the Early Iron Age necropolis of Tsikalario on Naxos: preliminary observations’, AION (=Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli) no. 15-16 (2008-2009), 57-69.
2.X. Charalambidou, ‘Κεραμικά ευρήματα από τη νεκρόπολη του Τσικαλαριού στη Νάξο: παρατηρήσεις σχετικά με το ταφικό περιβάλλον και τη χρήση των ευρημάτων’, Αρχαιογνωσία 16 (2010-2012), 149-86.
3. X. Charalambidou, ‘On style and ‘cultural biography’ of Euboean and Euboean-related amphorae: (re)visiting material evidence from the Hygeionomeion cemetery at the Spanou plot in Eretria’, Antike Kunst (forthcoming).
4. X. Charalambidou, ‘Tsikalario: Early Iron Age mortuary rites and material culture in an inland cemetery on Naxos’, Annual of the British School at Athens (forthcoming).
5. J. P. Crielaard, L. Barbetsea, Χ. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, M. Groenhuijzen, M. Kosma and F. Songu, ‘The Plakari Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report on the Second Field Season (2011)’, Pharos 19-2 (2013), 35-56.
6. J. P. Crielaard, X. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, M. Kosma and F. Songu, ‘The Plakari Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report on the Third Field Season (2012)’, Pharos 20-2 (2014), 1-24.
7. J. P. Crielaard, X. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, M. Kosma and F. Songu, ‘The Plakari Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report on the Fourth Field Season (2013)’, Pharos 21-2 (2015), 117-33.
8. X. Charalambidou, E. Kiriatzi, N.S. Müller, M. Georgakopoulou, S. Müller Celka, T. Krapf, ‘Eretrian ceramic products through time: Investigating the early history of a Greek metropolis’, in M. Dikomitou-Eliadou & V. Kassianidou (eds.), Interdisciplinary studies of ancient material from the Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports Special Issue, 2016, 530-5.
9. X. Charalambidou, E. Kiriatzi, N.S. Müller, S. Müller Celka, S. Verdan, S. Huber, K. Gex, G. Ackermann, M. Palaczyk, P. Maillard, ‘Eretrian ceramic production through time: Geometric to Hellenistic periods’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (in press).
Articles in conference proceedings, encyclopaediae and honorary volumes
1. X. Charalambidou, ‘Συμβολή στην τοπογραφία της Ερέτριας των αρχαϊκών χρόνων’, in A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), 1ο Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Θεσσαλίας και Στερεάς Ελλάδας, Πρακτικά επιστημονικής συνάντησης, Βόλος, 27.2 - 2.3.2003, Volos 2006, 993-1018.
2. X. Charalambidou, ‘The fine pottery from Oropos from the Early Orientalizing to the Archaic period. A first approach’, in A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), Oropos and Euboea in the Early Iron Age, Acts of an International Round Table, Volos, June 18-20, 2004, Volos 2007, 275-85.
3. X. Charalambidou, ‘Developments on Euboea and at Oropos at the end of the ‘Dark Ages’ (ca. 700 to the mid-7th century BC)’, in A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), The “Dark Ages” Revisited, Acts of an International Symposium in Memory of W.D.E. Coulson, University of Thessaly, 14-17 June 2007, Volos 2011, 810-31.
4. X. Charalambidou, ‘Quantitative analysis of the pottery from the Early Iron Age necropolis of Tsikalario on Naxos’, in S. Verdan, Th. Theurillat & A. Kenzelmann Pfyffer (eds.), Early Iron Age Pottery: A quantitative approach, Proceedings of the International Round Table organized by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (Athens, November 28-30, 2008), Oxford 2011, 139-47.
5. X. Charalambidou, ‘Naxos’ and ‘Minoa on Amorgos’, in R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C.B. Champion, A. Erskine & S.R. Huebner (επιμ.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Malden 2012.
6. X. Charalambidou, ‘Συμβολή στη γνώση των αρχαίων ναξιακών ταφικών εθίμων: το ταφικό σύνολο 11 από τη νεκρόπολη του Τσικαλαριού’, in Ι.Κ. Prombonas & S.Ε. Psarras (eds.), Πρακτικά του Δ΄ Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου με Θέμα «Η Νάξος δια μέσου των αιώνων», Κωμιακή, 4-7 Σεπτέμβρη 2008, Athens 2013, 77-98.
7. Χ. Charalambidou, ‘Ceramics, cultural interconnections and influences on Naxos’, in V. Vlachou & A. Gadolou (eds.), Τέρψις/Terpis. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology in honour of Nota Kourou, Études d'Archéologie 10, Brussels 2017, 375-92.
8. X. Charalambidou, ‘The pottery from the Sacrificial Refuse Area in Plakari-Karystos on Euboea: First assessment’, in Ž. Tankosić, F.Mavridis & M. Kosma (eds.), An Island between Two Worlds: The Archaeology of Euboea from Prehistoric to Byzantine Times. Proceedings of the international conference held at Eretria July 12-14, 2013 (Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6), Athens 2017, 253-74.
9. X. Charalambidou, ‘Orientalizing’, in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine & S. Huebner (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Malden 2017.
10. X. Charalambidou, ‘Viewing Euboea in relation to its colonies and relevant sites in Northern Greece and South Italy-Sicily’, in Mazarakis Ainian, Alexandridou & Charalambidou (in press).
11. X. Charalambidou, ‘Style and functionality of the coarse Geometric pithoid vessels from Naxos: examples from inland and coastal island’, in V. Lambrinoudakis, L. Mendoni, M. Koutsoumpou, T. Panagou, A. Sfyroera & X. Charalambidou (eds.), ΕhΣΟΧΟΣ ΑΛΗΟΝ: Τιμητικός τόμος για την Ε. Σημαντώνη-Μπουρνιά (forthcoming).
12. Χ. Charalambidou, E. Kiriatzi & N.S. Müller, ‘Scales of ceramic analysis on Naxos (Cyclades)’, in S. Handberg & A. Gadolou (eds.), Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 22), Aarhus 2017, 109-32.
13. A. Kotsonas, E. Kiriatzi, X. Charalambidou, M. Roumpou, N.S. Müller, M. Bessios, ‘Transport amphorae from Methone: An interdisciplinary study of production and trade ca. 700 BC’, in J. Strauss Clay, I. Malkin & Y. Tzifopoulos (eds.), Panhellenes at Methone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE), Berlin/Boston 2017, 9-19.
14. S. Müller Celka, E. Kiriatzi, Χ. Charalambidou, N.S. Müller, ‘Early Helladic II-III Pottery Groups from Eretria (Euboea): an interdisciplinary approach’, in B. Horejs & E. Alram-Stern (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC, Proceedings of the International Workshop held at OREA (forthcoming).