Anastasia Tsaliki was born in Piraeus, Greece. Her education includes an excellent First Degree (BA Hons) in History, Archaeology and History of Art from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and she attended MSc courses in Palaeopathology, Funerary Archaeology and Bone Chemistry and short courses in Forensic Anthropology and Radiology at the University of Bradford, UK, as well as seminars in Teaching & Learning in Archaeology & Classics, Continuing Medical Education, and Anthropology Statistics at various institutions. She has received several international scholarships and was awarded her PhD in Biological and Funerary Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK, entitled: ‘An Investigation of Extraordinary Human Body Disposals, With Special Reference to Necrophobia: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis with Case Studies from Greece and Cross-Cultural Comparisons’.
She speaks three languages very fluently and has a good working knowledge of an additional two. She also has extensive lab, field, research and teaching experience, as well as many participations in seminars and conferences. Research interests also involve Environmental Archaeology, Osteology and Palaeopathology, Medical Anthropology, and Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology. In particular: studies on stigma, disability and marginality, ritual and deviant crime, the mythology and folklore of the occult, the political exploitation of history and archaeology, and the digital resources in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology and Pathology.
She is a member of several professional bodies, academic email lists, Associate Editor of the web links at the Paleopathology Asociation (PPA) website (http://www.paleopathology.org/links.html), Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Archaeology and Palaeopathology’ academic network (http://bioarchaeology.ning.com/) and Editor-in-Chief of the 'Environmental Archaeology in Greece' website (http://environmentalarchaeology.wordpress.com/).
E-mail: anastasia@connectfree.co.uk
