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. (forthcoming). ‘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. (forthcoming). ‘The export of marble in the sixth century BC: Paros and its networks’, in Katsonopoulou, D. (ed), Paros V. Paros through the ages. From Prehistoric times to the 16th Century AD. Proceedings of the fifth International conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades. Paroikia, Paros, 21-24 June 2019 (Athens)
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘The islands of the Saronic Gulf: connections and cultural histories’, Archaeological Reports 66, 161–72.
- 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.