Dimitri Nakassis
{{Short description|American classicist and archaeologist}}
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| alma_mater = University of Michigan
University of Texas
| awards = MacArthur fellowship
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Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975){{cite book|title=Individuals and society in Mycenaean Pylos|last=Nakassis|first=Dimitri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQLm4v3uwEEC|publisher=Brill|date=2 May 2013|isbn=978-90-04-25146-5}} is an American classicist and archaeologist, and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.{{cite web|title=Dimitri Nakassis, Classics, University of Colorado Boulder|date=16 October 2015|url=http://www.colorado.edu/classics/dimitri-nakassis|access-date=3 February 2017}} He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015.{{cite news|title=List: MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant' recipients, 2015|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_28893060/list-macarthur-foundation-genius-grant-recipients-2015|access-date=29 September 2015|agency=Associated Press|publisher=San Diego Mercury News|date=29 September 2015}}
Life
He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D.
Work
Nakassis's work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece, in particular the administrative practices of the state.{{cite web|title=Dimitri Nakassis {{ndash}} Macarthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/940/|access-date=29 September 2015}} His findings are challenging assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece. Since 2013, he has co-directed a project using Reflectance Transformation Imaging to create detailed 3D images of the Linear B tablets found in the Palace of Nestor.{{cite news|last=Judkis|first=Maura|date=29 September 2015|title=The 2015 MacArthur 'genius grants' honor — and surprise — 24 fellows|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-2015-macarthur-genius-grants-honor--and-surprise--24-fellows/2015/09/28/f93bb6ba-6152-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
References
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External links
- [http://westernargolid.org/ The Western Argolid Regional Project]
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