KATERINA NIKOLAOU
Research Associate (C)

ACADEMIC DEGREES

SCHOLARSHIPS
1982-1984: Scholarship from the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
1986-1988: Postgraduate scholarship from the University of Athens, Department of History      and Arcaeology, Faculty of Philosophy.

PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS
1982-1988 Associate member of the former Chair of History of the Byzantine State during      the fulfilment of the project for the catalogue of the published Christian and Byzantine      inscriptions.
1984-1988 Teacher at ''Pierce College'', American College of St. Paraskevi, Athens.
1988-2002 Functional Researcher at the Institute for Byzantine Research / National Hellenic      Research Foundation. [Program ''Byzantium and the World of the Balkans''].
2002-today: Research Associate at the Institute for Byzantine Research / National Hellenic      Research Foundation. [Program

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005 (Spring Semester) Visiting associate Professor, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology) University of Thessaly.
2004 (Winter Semester): Visiting lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology (University of Athens).
2002: Two-hour course ''Diplomatic relations of Byzantium with the West: Intermarriages. Cultural effects (8th-11th c.)'', Program of distance learning (University of Athens, April 2002).

LECTURES IN UNDER-GRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE SEMINARS
2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 lectures in the Department of History and Archaeology (University of Athens).

PARTICIPATION IN SPECIALISED MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS AS RESEARCH ADVISOR
2001-2004: ''Modern and Contemporary Cypriot history (1878-2000). An analytic bibliography'' (supervisor Ass. Prof. G. Georgis), realised in the frame of the Program ''Aid of New Researchers of Cyprus'' sponsored Foundation for the Promotion of Research (Cyprus).

ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA AND ACADEMIC MEETINGS
Member of the Organizing Committees of 5 (five) International Symposia of the Institute for Byzantine Research/NHRF:

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
H θέση της γυναίκας στη βυζαντινή κοινωνία, Athens 1993. [Woman's position in the      byzantine society]
''Oι αντιλήψεις των Bυζαντινών για την άσκηση εξουσίας από γυναίκες (780-1056)'', Σύμμεικτα      13 (1999), 49-67 [Byzantine conception regarding the exercise of power by women      (780-1056)]
Bυζαντινά βασιλικά συνοικέσια μετ; αλλοφύλων και αλλογλώσσων, Aθήνα 2000 [Byzantine      royal arranged marriages with foreigners (8th-11th c.), Athens 2000]
1''Θεοδώρα και Θεόκτιστος'', Σύμμεικτα 15 (2002), 67-76 [Theodora and Theoktistos].
''Παλινωδίες της νομοθεσίας των Μακεδόνων: η αναίτια κακοποίηση των έγγαμων γυναικών      και ο Βίος της Θωμαΐδος της Λεσβίας'', Σύμμεικτα 16 (2003), 101-113 [Recantations of      legislation of the Macedonian dynasty: the unprovoked ill treatment of married women      and the Vita of Thomais of Lesbos].