Dr. Vasiliky Kynourgiopoulou

As the Assistant Academic Dean for Italy, Dr. Vasiliky Kynourgiopoulou coordinates the academic planning for the CEA Global Campuses in Rome and Florence. She ensures that academic policies and procedures are followed and provides support to the faculty to ensure academic program integrity. She also makes recommendations for faculty appointments, schedules courses, holds regular faculty meetings, manages student and faculty grievanaces, recommends curriculum updates and oversees the day-to-day academic activities of the Rome programs. Dr. Kynourgiopoulou works closely with operations staff in Rome and reports to the Academic Dean for Italy.

Dr. Kynourgiopoulou has taught in several Rome programs in Italy courses on Archaeology, Heritage and Museum management, Architectural History and Art History. She has taught at Edinburgh University (UK) and has given invited lectures in various universities around the world such as UCL, Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Savannah College of Art and Design. Dr. Kynourgiopoulou has also served as a civil servant at the Scottish and English Ministries of Culture specializing in Ancient Monuments and Heritage Management and Policy and as a Secretary General at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Scotland. As a Professor of Archaeology for CEA, Dr. Kynourgiopoulou has vast experience in heritage and museum management and has participated in many international conferences including neoclassical architecture, heritage conservation issues, museum management policies as well as archaeology and the public. For the past few years, her archaeology fieldwork has concentrated on North African countries as she is researching how archaeology can become a means to creating stable economies. In addition, Dr. Kynourgiopoulou also researches the impact of cultural infiltration on the relationship between hostile communities and nations. She has taught in several British and American Universities and has created a variety of courses and concentrations from Egyptian archaeology to heritage management and architectural history.

Dr. Vicky Kynourgiopoulou earned her Ph.D. in Architectural History and Urban Planning at Edinburgh University (U.K.). She completed her postgraduate studies at the University College London, where she was awarded an M.A. in Cultural Heritage Studies. She received a B.A. with honors in Archaeology at the University of Southhampton where she participated in her first professional archaeological digs.

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