Curriculum Vitae
Education and Fellowships
2009-2010 Junior Fellow at the RCAC, Koç University, Istanbul
2006-2007 Oscar Broneer fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy;
2004-2005 Heinrich Schliemann fellow of the American School of Classical Studies by Athens, Greece;
2001-2010 graduate student at Columbia University, New York, NY;
PhD defense date – January 2010;
Thesis title: Burying the gods: depositing statues in Late Antiquity (adv. Prof. Roger S. Bagnall);
1998-1999 Foreign exchange student at Duke University, Durham, NC;
1996-2000 BA from the Faculty of History, the University of Bucharest, Romania
BA thesis: Public benefactors in the Greek cities of the Western Pontus. Published in 2001.
Grants and Extracurricular Positions
Initiator and co-president of Centrul Vegetius – an initiative designed to promote Ancient and Medieval Military History among university students (2008-2009)
Research grants from the Lodge, the Tianaderrah and the Melon foundations, for the archeological survey or rock-cut monasteries in the North-Eastern Balkans (2005-2008)
Vice-president of the ‘Erasmus’ Student Organization, part of the International Students of History Association (1997-1998)
1 year exchange student fellowship from the Soros Foundation (OSI) at Duke University (1998-1999)
4 weeks grant from the University of Sidney for the excavation at Nea Pahos, Cyprus (1997)
Archaelogical Experience
Nea Paphos (Cyprus): one season (1997);
Histria (Romania): 2 seasons (1998-9);
Amheida (Egypt): 2 seasons (2004, 2006);
Field survey of monastic sites Dobroudja (Romania/ Bulgaria): four seasons (2004-7)
Modern Languages
Bulgarian – reading
French – fluent
German – reading
Modern Greek – reading, conversational
Italian – fluent
Romanian - native
Serbo-Croatian – reading
Spanish – reading
Turkish – reading
Ancient Languages
Ancient Greek
Church Slavonic
Coptic
Latin