ANNA I. LAMBROPOULOU
Research Director
Programme: ''Historical Geography of the Greek Region''

BIOGRAPHICAL AND ACADEMIC INFORMATION
• 1977: Graduated from the History and Archaeology Department of the University of Athens.
• 1977: Post-graduate studies in Byzantine History on a Greek State (IKY) scholarship.
• 1978: Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA).
• 1978-1981: Post-graduate studies in Paris at Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
• 1984: Received her Ph.D. from the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCE
• 1981-1985: Worked on the Academy of Athens Tabula Imperii Romani (TIR) Programme (Thessaly, Epirus, Thrace).
• 1985: Assistant Researcher at the IBR/ NHRF Historical Geography Programme.
• 1992: Promoted to Associate Researcher.
• 1995: Promoted to Senior Researcher.
• 2001: Promoted to Research Director.

PARTICAPATION IN EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES
In 2002, the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) entered into an agreement with the EU in the framework of the Culture 2000 Programme to conduct a three-year (2002-2005) research programme focusing on Foreigners in the Early Medieval Migration-Integration-Acculturation. The project included participants from 13 European nations and was coordinated by Dr Dieter Quast of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. The Greek participation was the IBR/NHRF Historical Geography Programme entitled ''Οι Σλάβοι στον Ελληνικό χώρο από τον 7ο μέχρι και τις αρχές του 9ου αι / The Slavs in the Greek region from the 7th through the early 9th c.'' (Coordinator:; internal collaborators: Anna Lambropoulou, Ilias Anagnostakis; external associates: Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou, Christina Katsougiannopoulou, Anastasia Yangaki). In the frame of the programme, Anna Lambropoulou participated in six workshops held in Athens, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Spain.

EXPEDITIONS
She has conducted fieldwork and expeditions around the entire Peloponnese.

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCES
• Participation at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006, Panel II. 4 Burial. Burials in Byzantium (La ville de Patras et son développement par rapport a ses nécropoles pendant la période paléochrétienne, Anna Lambropoulou).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND VOLUMES OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
• The Presence of Slavs in the Western Peloponnese during the 7th and 8th Centuries: New Archaeological Evidence, in: D. Quast (ed.), Foreigners in the Early Medieval Europe: Thirteen International Studies on Early Medieval Mobility [Monographien des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Band 78], Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz 2009, 197-217.
• Transition Period Sculptures from the Basilica of the Theatre of Ancient Messene (in collaboration with V. Penna and I. Anagnostakis), in: Ch. Pennas - C. Vanderheyde (eds.), La Sculpture byzantine VIIe-XIIe siecles, Actes du colloque international organisé par la 2eme éphorie des antiquités byzantines et l'école francaise d'Athenes (6-8 septembre 2000) [BCH Suppl. 49], Athens 2008, 373-391.
• Patras during the Early Christian and Middle Byzantine Periods (in collaboration with A. Moutzali), in Πάτρα Πολιτιστική πρωτεύουσα 2006 / Patras Cultural Capital 2006, Patras 2006, 45­-95 (in Greek and English).
• O μοναχισμός στην Aχαΐα κατά τη μεσοβυζαντινή περίοδο / Monasticism in Achaia during the Middle Byzantine period, in: Voula Konti (ed.), Proceedings of the International ΙBR/NHRF Symposium, O MοναχισμόςστηνΠελοπόννησο 4ος-15οςαι. / Monasticism in the Peloponnese 4th-15th c., [IBR/NHRF, International Symposia 14], Athens 2004, 87-112 (in Greek).
• Μνήμη και λήθη της λατρείας των αγίων της Πελοποννήσου (9ος-15ος αι) / Memory and Oblivion of the Worship of the Saints of Peloponnesus (9th-15th c.) (in collaboration with I. Anagnostakis, V. Konti, A. Panopoulou), in:E. Kountoura-Galaki (ed.), Οιήρωεςτηςορθόδοξηςεκκλησίας. Οινέοιάγιοι 8ος-16οςαι. / Heroes of the Orthodox Church (8th-16th centuries), Athens 2004, 265-294 (in Greek).
• Πρωτοβυζαντινό λουτρό στην Πάτρα: Tεκμήρια για την επιβίωση της πόλης στους σκοτεινούς χρόνους / Early Byzantine Βath in Patra: Evidence on the Survival of the City during the Dark Ages, Symmeikta 16 (2003-2004), 315-356(in collaboration with Afentra Moutzali) (in Greek).
• Kαταστολή: Mία μορφή ανοχής στην Πελοπόννησο του 9ου καi 10ου αι. / Repression: A Form of Tolerance in the Peloponnesus during the 9th and 10th c. (in collaboration with I. Anagnostakis), in: K. Nikolaou (ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the IBR/NHRF, Repression and Tolerance in the Middle Byzantine Period [International Symposia 10], Athens 2002, 47-61 (in Greek).
• Πρωτοβυζαντινή θέση στη Mανολάδα Hλείας / An Early Byzantine Location in Manolada of Elia (in collaboration with Afentra Moutzali), in: Πρωτοβυζαντινή Mεσσήνηκαι Oλυμπία. Aστικός και αγροτικός χώρος στη δυτική Πελοπόννησο / Early Byzantine Messene and Olympia. Urban and RuralSpace in Western Peloponnese, Athens, 29-30 May 1998 (in collaboration with the Society for Messenian Archaeological Studies), Athens 2002, 271-286 (in Greek).  
• Συμβολή στην ερμηνεία των αρχαιολογικών τεκμηρίων της Πελοποννήσου κατά τους σκοτεινούς αιώνες / Contribution to the Interpretation of the Archaeological Data of Peloponnesus during the ''Dark Ages''(in collaboration with I. Anagnostakis, Voula Konti, Aggeliki Panopoulou, in Greek), in: Οι σκοτεινοί αιώνες του Βυζαντίου, 7ος-9ος αι. / The Dark Centuries of Byzantium (7th-9th c.), Athens 2001, pp. 189-229 (in Greek).
• Mια περίπτωση εφαρμογής του βυζαντινού θεσμού του ασύλου στην Πελοπόννησο. H προσφυγή των Σλάβων στό ναό του Aγίου Aνδρέα Πατρών / The Resort of the Slavs to the Church of Saint Andreas in Patras: A Case Study on the Application of the Byzantine Institution of the Asylum in the Peloponnesus (in collaboration with I. Anagnostakis), Symmeikta 14 (2001), 29-47 (in Greek).
• Le Péloponnese occidental a l'époque protobyzantine (IVe-VIIe siecles). Problemes de géographie historique d'un espace a reconsidérer, in: K. Belke - Fr. Hild - J. Koder - P. Soustal (eds.), Byzanz als Raum, zu Methoden und Inhalten der Historischen Geographie des ostlichen Mittelmeerraumes, [Osterreichsche Akademie der Wissenschaften. Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur die Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 7] Vienna 2000, 95-113.

PUBLICATIONS EDITED
•Η εβραϊκή παρουσία στον ελλαδικό χώρο (4ος-19ος αι.) / The Jewish Presence in the Greek Region (4th-19th c.) (ed. - introduction: A. Lambropoulou - Κ. Tsiknakis) [International Symposia 12], IBR/NHRF - Society for the Study of Hellenic Judaism, Athens 2008, pp. 253 (in Greek).

WORKS IN PREPARATION
• Iστορική Γεωγραφία της Bυζαντινής Πελοποννήσου (395-1204), Part I: Bυζαντινή Πελοπόννησος μέχρι το 1204 / The Historical Geopgraphy of Byzantine Peloponnese (395-1204), Part II: Byzantine Peloponnese up to 1204(Anna Lambropoulou).
• H Mητρόπολις Πατρών και ο Mοναχισμός στην Aχαΐα μέχρι τις αρχές του 13ου αι. / The Bishopric of Patras and Monasticism in Achaia until the Early 13th c.