Dr Michael Loy
British School at Athens
52 Souedias Street
Athens, 10676
+30 211 1022 804
Assistant Director
As Assistant Director, I co-ordinate the BSA courses and teaching for both undergraduate and graduate students, and I manage the security and maintenance of the hostel. I also serve as Curator of the BSA museum. Alongside these duties, my research focuses on Archaic and Classical period city-states, using GIS and quantitative analysis to consider how these states networked with one another. In the field, I have worked most recently on Kythera, and at Olynthos and Pylos.
I completed my PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, having also spent time at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum. I have taught undergraduates from Birkbeck, Cambridge, and Dartmouth College, and I have experience delivering museum teaching both to schools and to the general public.
Publications
- Loy, M. (in preparation). Connecting Communities. Economic and Political Networks in Archaic Greece.
- Loy, M. (in preparation). ‘Travelling to the temple of Poseidon at Sounion. Land routes and sea routes’, in Angliker, E., and Tae Jensen, J. (eds), Traveling and Cult Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean.
- Loy, M. 2020 (forthcoming). ‘The islands of the Saronic Gulf: connections and cultural histories’, Archaeological Reports 66.
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘Descent with modification? Survey methodologies and scholarly networks’, in Wilkinson, T.C. and Slawisch, A. (eds), The Fieldwalker.org
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘Review of Katja Sporn, Alexandra Kankeleit, Die Abteilung Athen des DAI und die Aktivitäten deutscher Archäologen in Griechenland 1874-1933.’, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.47.
- Loy, M. 2019. ‘Early modern travellers in the Aegean: routes and networks’, BSA 114, 369–98.
- Loy, M. and Mullen, A. 2019. ‘A Greek inscription with rider iconography from South Shields, Britain’, ZPE 209, 140–4.