KOUMANOUDI MARINA
Assistant Researcher
Programme ''Byzantium and the West''

Athens, 22 July 1967

ACADEMIC DEGREES
• 1990: BA, Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete.
• 1997: MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, King's College, London.
• 2006: PhD, Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS
• 2003-2005: Teaching Assistant in the tutorial course ''Introduction in History II03'', Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens.
• 2006-2008: Visiting Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete.
• 2007-2008: Visiting Lecturer, Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• 2009- : Assistant Researcher, Programme ''Byzantium and the West'', Institute for Historical Research, Department for Byzantine Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
• 1992 - 1996: Scholarship, Historical Geography Programme, IBR/NHRF.
• 2000 - 2001: Transcription of documents from the Notary registers of the State Archive of Venice, Research project sponsored by the Vikelaia Municipal Library, Herakleion, Crete in collaboration with the University of Ioannina.
• 2001 - 2008: Collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice in the area of publications.
• 2002 - 2004: Assistant of the organizing committee of the International Conference ''The Fourth Crusade and its Consequences'', Academy of Athens.
• 2002: Member of the research team for the cataloguing and classification of the Old Archive of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice.
• 2005 - 2006:  Member of the research team working on the research project ''Greek Communities and the European World (13th-19th c.). Forms of self-administration, social organization, construction of identities'' (the research was funded by EU project Pythagoras II), Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• 2007: Member of the research team of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Foundation working on the preparation of the Chios Museum of Mastic.

 
MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST
• 2007: Relations between Byzantium and the West during the Late Byzantine period, and history of Latin-dominated Greece (13th-15th c.).

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES/CONFERENCES, LECTURES
• Participation in 14 international conferences in Greece and abroad; participation in workshops; invited lectures at undergraduate seminars at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

PUBLICATIONS
• 13 articles in scientific journals, papers in proceedings of international conferences, collective volumes, and teaching manuals; editing of 2 volumes.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Για ένα κομμάτι γης: Η διαμάχη Σανούδων - Γκίζη για το νησί της Αμοργού (14ος αι.) / For a Piece of Land: The Sanudo-Ghisi Dispute over the Island of Amorgos (14th c.), Thesaurismata 29 (1999), 45-89.
• Contra deum, jus et justitiam. The Trial of Bartolomeo Querini, Bailo and Capitano of Negroponte (14th c.), in: Ch. Maltezou - P. Schreiner (ed.), Atti del Colloquio Internazionale ''Bisanzio, Venezia e il mondo franco-greco''. Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani e Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e post Bizantini di Venezia, Venice 2002, 235-288.
• Circa Conventionem Alluminam sive Allumeriarum.... Μια Επιχείρηση Εκμετάλλευσης Στυπτηρίας στο Δουκάτο του Αιγαίου Πελάγους (15ος αι.) / Circa Conventionem Alluminam sive Allumeriarum.... A Company for the Exploitation of Alum in the Duchy of the Aegean Sea (15th c.), in: Ch. Dendrinos - J. Harris - E. Harvalia-Crook - J. Herrin (eds.), Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, Aldershot 2003, 265-274.
• Illi de Ca' Venier: The First Venetian Lords of Kythera, in: M. Koumanoudi - Ch. Maltezou (eds.),''Venezia e Cerigo'', Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Venezia, 6-7 dicembre 2002, Venice 2003, 87-106.
• Τhe Latins in the Aegean after 1204: Interdependence and Interwoven Interests, in: A. Laiou (ed.), Urbs capta. Τhe Fourth Crusade and its Consequences. La IVe croisade et ses consequences, Paris 2005 [Realites Byzantines 10], 247-267.
• Με αφορμή την ηλεκτρονική καταγραφή των πρεσβειών της βενετοκρατούμενης Κρήτης (13ος-15ος αι.): Μια πρώτη προσέγγιση του αρχειακού υλικού / On the Occasion of Electronic Recording of the Embassies of Venetian-ruled Crete (13th-15th c.): A First Approach of the Archival Material, Εώα και Εσπέρια. Περιοδικό της Εταιρείας Έρευνας των Σχέσεων του Μεσαιωνικού και Νέου Ελληνισμού με τη Δύση / Eoa and Esperia. Journal of the Society for the Study of Relations between Medieval and Modern Hellenism and the West 7 (2007), 149-171.
• Fragments of an Island Economy: The Venier Kytheran Estate Records (15th c.), in: Ch. Maltezou - A. Tzavara - D. Vlassi (eds.), I Greci durante la venetocrazia: Uomini, spazio, idee (XIII-XVIII sec.), Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Venezia, 3-7 dicembre 2007, Venice 2009, 497-514.