Carl Knappett
Title: Walter Graham / Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory
Rank: Professor
Degrees and Institutions from which they were received:
BA and MA, Archaeology, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
PhD, Archaeology, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Areas of Academic Interest:
Aegean Bronze Age political economies and geopolitics; Minoanisation in the Cyclades, Dodecanese and Asia Minor; Minoan pottery, particularly from the Middle and early Late Bronze Age; the Minoan harbour site of Palaikastro (site co-director); ceramic fabrics and technologies; material culture studies, including approaches drawing on cognitive science, ecological psychology and Peircean semiotics; regional interaction and social network analysis
for my Aegean Material Culture Laboratory, see www.art.utoronto.ca/amclab
Current Research:
completing ‘From First to Second Palace at Knossos: an integrated ceramic and architectural study of Evans’s MM III deposits from the Palace of Minos’, with Colin Macdonald and Iro Mathioudaki, for British School at Athens Studies series.
Teaching:
FAH2017 Art and Archaeology of the Everyday
FAH2018 Art of the Aegean Bronze Age: Contemporary Perspectives
FAH 206 Prehistoric Aegean and East
Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
FAH 303 Emergence of Greek Civilization
Publications (selected):
Books
Knappett, C. and T.F. Cunningham, 2012. Block M at Palaikastro: The Proto- and Neopalatial Town. Excavations 1986-2003. London: British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 47.
Knappett, C. 2011. An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Knappett, C. (ed.) in press. Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Macdonald, C.F. and C. Knappett (ed.) in press. Intermezzo: Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Crete. London: British School at Athens Studies series.
Knappett. C. and L. Malafouris (eds.), 2008. Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach. New York: Springer.
Macdonald, C.F., and C. Knappett, 2007. Knossos: Protopalatial deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-west Houses. London: British School at Athens Supplementary Volume no. 41.
Knappett, C. 2005. Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Poursat, J-C., and C. Knappett, 2005. Le Quartier Mu IV. La Poterie du Minoen Moyen II: Production et Utilisation. Paris: Etudes Crétoises 33.
Knappett, C. 2012. 'Materiality', in I. Hodder (ed.), Archaeological Theory Today, 2nd ed, 188-207. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Knappett, C. 2012. 'Meaning in miniature: semiotic networks in material culture', in M. Jessen, N. Johansen and H. Jensen (eds.) Excavating the Mind, 87-109. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Knappett, C., Evans, T. and R. Rivers, 2011. 'The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: new interpretations gained from modelling the maritime network', Antiquity 85, 1008-1023.
Knappett, C. 2011. 'Networks of objects, meshworks of things', in T. Ingold (ed.), Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines, 45-63. Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception, Ashgate.
Knappett, C. and I. Nikolakopoulou, 2008. ‘Colonialism without colonies? A Bronze Age case study from Akrotiri, Thera,’ Hesperia 77, 1-42.
Knappett, C. 2008. ‘The material culture of Protopalatial Crete’, in C. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: CUP.
Professional Appointments/Awards:
Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge (1998-2003)
Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship (1999-2000)
Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Exeter (2003-2008)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2006-)
International Scientific Committee for the Fondation Fyssen, Paris