Dr Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood
Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood is an archaeologist with special research interests in the Mycenaean period and the early Iron Age of Greece, particularly in all aspects of these periods in the Ionian Islands. She has been a board member of the IIHSA since 1997, acting as Secretary and Chair before her appointment as the Institute's Director in 2012. Formerly she taught Aegean and Greek Archaeology in University College Dublin and was Curator of the Classical Museum of the University. In her position as IIHSA Director she oversees the activities of the Institute, and the running of the Athens office in collaboration with the Assistant Director. She is also a member of the board’s fieldwork sub-committee. She is director of the Livatho Valley Survey (LVS), a multi-period and multi-disciplinary archaeological project (2004- ), in collaboration with the LE’ Eforia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, which was the first fieldwork project undertaken by the Irish Institute.