Lucia Nixon is a Classical

Archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She was Senior Tutor at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Since 1987, she has co-directed the

Sphakia Sfakiá ( el, Σφακιά) is a mountainous area in the southwestern part of the island of Crete, in the Chania regional unit. It is considered to be one of the few places in Greece that have never been fully occupied by foreign powers. With a ...

Survey with

Jennifer Moody Jennifer Alice Moody is an American archaeologist, and research fellow at University of Texas at Austin. She studies the archaeology, and environmental history of Crete. Awards * 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program Works * Alan Peatfield, Jennifer Mo ...

, which excavates and surveys the Sphakia region of south-west

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

, from ca. 3000 BCE - 1900 CE.

Education

Nixon holds an AB in

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

and Classical Archaeology from

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...

. She completed an MA in Classics from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

and an MA in

Museum Studies Museology or museum studies is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and education. Terminology The w ...

from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. Nixon completed doctoral-level research in Classical Archaeology at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.

Career

Nixon was Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of New Brunswick at St John Canada. ^{iii/sup> Since 1995, she has been a Member of the Common Room of Wolfson College, Oxford and the sub-Faculty of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. She taught Classical Archaeology at Oxford before becoming the first full-time Senior Tutor at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has completed extensive archaeological fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Italy and Greece, and has published widely on sacred and economic landscape, and gender, equality, and education.

Nixon began excavating in Crete in 1976. As co-director of the Sphakia Survey, Nixon has led specialist archaeologists from Canada, the US and the UK investigating the interaction between people and the landscape between people and landscape over 5000 years.

Bibliography

* 'Cretan Myths. A Broad Sweep of the Island's Long and Varied History', ''TLS,'' 30 October 2020
* 'Messages from Mykene: Othering and Smothering. Intersectional Orientalism and Sexism in a Museum Exhibition', ''Everyday Orientalism'' (2020)
* ‘The Early Ottoman Sacred Landscape of Khania’, in C. Morris, G. Papantoniou, A. Vionis (eds), ''Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult in the Mediterranean Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology'' (2019) 99-117
* 'All things to all people. Questions of colour in the reception of Nefertiti' ''TLS'' 2018, 3 August 2018
* ‘Cultural Landscapes and Resources in Sphakia, SW Crete: A Diachronic Perspective’, with Jennifer Moody, in David Rupp and Jonathan Tomlinson (eds), ''From Maple to Olive. Proceedings of a Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens 10–11 June 2016'' (Athens: Publication of the Canadian Institute in Greece 2017) 485-504
* ''Making a Landscape Sacred: Outlying Churches and Icon Stands in Sphakia, Crete'' (Oxford: Oxbow, 2006)
* (with Simon Price

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) 'Ancient Greek Agricultural Terraces: Evidence from Texts and Archaeological Survey', ''American Journal of Archaeology'' Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2005) 665–94
* 'Gender Bias in Archaeology', ''Women in Ancient Societies: An Illusion of the Night'', ed. by Leonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler, Maria Wyke (London: Routledge, 1995)
* Nixon, Lucia, et al. "Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete." ''Echos du monde classique: Classical views'', vol. 33 no. 2, 1989, p. 201-215

References

External links

Interview with Lucia Nixon

Personal website

Website with relevant images

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