Arietta Papaconstantinou
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Associate Professor
Areas of interest
Arietta Papaconstantinou's research interests cover the religious, social and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate.
She is particularly interested in the evolution of Christian communities during the first two centuries of Islamic rule.
She likes to mobilise a wide range of sources and approaches, from economic to textual and linguistic, using traditional narrative sources as well as archaeology, papyrology and epigraphy.
Postgraduate supervision
Teaching
Research centres and groups
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- Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)
- Centre for Economic History
Research projects
Current projects
- Papaconstantinou is currently completing a project that was funded from 2014 to 2016 by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, entitled Credit, debt, and the transformation of rural society in Egypt and Palestine from Constantine to the Abbasids, studying the evolution and effects of credit and debt on the rural societies of Egypt and Palestine from the fourth to the eighth century.
- She also participated in the recently concluded Oxford-based ERC-funded project , is a collaborator in the international project , and a member of the network .
- She was General Editor of the book series , ca 300-1500 initiated by Ashgate (now terminated), and is General Editor of the She is also a member of the scientific committee of the of the advisory board of the journal Estudios Bizantinos, and of the Advisory Editorial board of the series (Gorgias Press).
- Papaconstantinou is also an associate member of the in Paris, the , the , and of the .
Background
Before joining ÌÇÐÄ̽»¨ in 2011, Papaconstantinou was Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, where she had taught since 1999, after several years at the Universities of Strasbourg, Franche-Comté, and Val de Marne (Paris XII).
She was educated at the German School in Athens, Deree College in Athens, and the Université de Strasbourg, from where she holds an MA in Archaeology and a PhD in Ancient History.