Aleydis Van De Moortel

Academic History

• "Candidaat" (Classics), Sint Ignatius, Antwerp (Belgium), 1978
• M.A. (Classics), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), 1981
• M.A. (Anthropology with a specialty in Nautical Archaeology), Texas A&M University, 1987
• M.A. (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology), Bryn Mawr College, 1989
• Ph.D. (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology), Bryn Mawr College, 1997
• Dissertation, ""The Transition from the Protopalatial to the Neopalatial Society in South-Central Crete." Director Prof. James C. Wright
• Regular and student associate member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1990-94
• Senior associate member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1999-2002

Employment:

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002-
• Field trip director, College-Year-in-Athens, 1992, 2000-2001
• Assistant Professor of Classics, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Seattle Pacific University, 1998-99
• Post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Roskilde, Denmark, 1997-2001
• Visiting Lecturer, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996-98
• Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1989-90
• Teacher, Main Line School Night, Radnor, PA, 1988-89
• Teaching Assistant of Latin; Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Texas A&M University, 1986-87
• Graduate Assistant, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University, 1983-85
• High school teacher of Greek and Latin, Belgium, 1981-83

Honors & Awards :

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant in support of Mitrou excavation, 2004
• INSTAP Research Grant in support of Mitrou excavation, 2004
• INSTAP grant for land expropriation at Mitrou
• INSTAP Research Grants (with Dr. L. Tyree) for study of Kamares Cave pottery, Crete, 2002-2003
• Solow Summer Senior Research Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2001
• Travel research grant, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Cyprus, 2001
• Raphael Grant from the European Commission for study of the Utrecht I Ship (in collaboration with National Museum of Denmark and Centraal Museum of Utrecht), 1998-2000
• Graduate fellowships, Bryn Mawr College, 1992-94
• Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, 1991-92
• James R. Wheeler Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1990-91
• Marguerite N. Farley Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, 1987-90
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1983-84
• Travel Fellowship, Belgian Ministry of Education, 1982

Field Work:

• With Eleni Zahou, director of the archaeological excavation at the Bronze Age site of Mitrou, Central Greece, a collaborative project of the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, and the Greek Archaeological Service, 2004-2008
• Minoan sanctuary of Kamares Cave, Crete. Pottery analyst, 2002-2003
• Minoan settlement of Mallia (Abords Nord-Est), Crete. Pottery analyst for the Ecole Française d'Athènes, 1999-
• Medieval ship of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Archaeological director, 1998-
• Minoan harbor of Kommos, Crete. Pottery analyst, 1992-
• Minoan harbor of Mochlos, Crete. Trench supervisor, 1990-1991
• Bronze Age harbor of Tel Nami, Israel. Trench supervisor, 1988-1989
• Late Medieval shipwreck of l'Aber Wrac'h river, France, 1988
• Study of Byzantine amphoras, Underwater Archaeology Museum of Bodrum, Turkey, 1984-1985
• Bronze Age shipwreck of Uluburun, Turkey, 1984
• Roman shipwreck of Anse des Laurons, France, 1982
• Roman and Merovingian riverine settlements, Kerkhove, Belgium, 1982
• Mesolithic flint-knapping site, Brecht, Belgium, 1981

Selected Publications:

Books

• (with J.W. Shaw, P.M. Day, and V. Kilikoglou) A LM IA Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production (Princeton 2001). Hesperia Supplement 30.
• A Cog-Like Vessel from the Netherlands (Dronten 1991). Flevobericht No. 331.

Articles

• "Shipbuilding and Navigation in the Rhine Delta during the Late Viking Age," in R. Simek (ed.), The Vikings in the Rhineland (Vienna, 2004) 39-49. Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia 11.
• "A New Look at the Utrecht Ship," in C. Beltrame (ed.), Boats, Ships and Shipyards. Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice, 2000 (Venice, 2003) 183-189.
• "Pottery as a Barometer of Economic Change: From the Protopalatial to the Neopalatial Society in Central Crete," in Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking Minoan Archaeology (Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Press, 2001) 189-210.
• (with M.K. Langdon) "Newly Discovered Greek Boat Engravings from Attica," in J. Litwin (ed.), Down the River to the Sea (Gdansk 2000) 85-89.
• "Functional Analysis of a Small Zuyderzee Cog," in C. Westerdahl (ed.), Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding (Oxford 1994) 117-119.
  "Un graffito de bateau de l'Âge du Bronze à Malia," BCH 118.2 (1994) 389-397.
• "Het scheepswrak van Ulu Burun," Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 9 (1992) 1-14.
• "The Construction of a Cog-Like Vessel in the Late Middle Ages," in R. Reinders and K. Paul (eds.), Carvel Construction Technique (Oxford 1991) 88-90.

Reviews

• J.A. MacGillivray, Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period: AJA 104.2 (2000) 607-609.
• P.P. Betancourt, Pseira. A Bronze Age Seaport in Minoan Crete (CD-ROM): http://csaws.brynmawr.edu:443/web1/csa.html, 1999.

Invited Lectures :

• "Middle Minoan Pottery Chronology and Regional Diversity," Aigina Workshop sponsored by the SCIEM 2000 Project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2004.
• "Kommos: A Minoan Harbor on the South Coast of Crete," Classics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2003.
• "A Re-examination of the Pottery from the Kamares Cave," Gold Medal Colloquium, Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, 2003.
• "Potter and Ruler: Exploring the Limits of the Minoan Palatial Economy,"  Dept. of Classics, U. of Cincinnati, 2002.
• ing Ships on Dry Land: Nautical Archaeology in the Low Countries," Friends of the Dutch Institute at Athens (Greece), 2000.
• "Pottery in Archaeological Interpretation," Seminar, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2000.
• g for Ships of Vikings and Frisians," Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies,(C.A.A.N.S./A.C.A.E.N), Vancouver, B.C., 1999.
• "Ships of Vikings and Frisians: Breaking Through Boundaries in Medieval Europe," Sixteenth Annual European Studies Symposium, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, 1999.
• "Medieval Ships on Dry Land," Seattle Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, 1999.
• "The Battle of Salamis: A Triumph of Athenian Trireme Warfare," College-Year-in-Athens (Greece), 1993.
• "The Shipwreck of Uluburun," Lecture for the Flemish and Dutch Societies of Athens (Greece), 1993.
• "The Cog in Art and Recent Archaeology: Analysis of a Revolutionary Design," 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1990.
• A Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey," Conference of the Classical Association of Northern California, Monterey, 1985.

Contact Information

Aleydis Van De Moortel
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
1104 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-8279
Fax: (865) 974-7173
avdm@utk.edu