Lutgarde Vandeput
{{short description|Director of British Institute at Ankara}}
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Lutgarde Vandeput {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE}} is the director of the British Institute at Ankara.{{Cite web|title=People at the BIAA {{!}} About the BIAA {{!}} BIAA|url=https://biaa.ac.uk/about-the-biaa/people|access-date=2021-11-04|website=biaa.ac.uk|date=5 September 2021 }}
Education and early career
Vandeput studied classical archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Masters thesis on "Splijttechnieken in de Oudheid: een kritische statusquaestionis van het onderzoek in het oostelijke deel van de Middellandse Zee." She completed her doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on "The Architectural Decoration at Sagalassos. Local Development within the Framework of Anatolian Architecture. The Imperial Period." {{Cite web|url=https://limo.libis.be/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=32LIBIS_ALMA_DS71128294770001471&context=L&vid=KULeuven&lang=en_US&search_scope=ALL_CONTENT&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=all_content_tab&query=any,contains,Lutgarde%20Vandeput&offset=0|access-date=2021-11-24|website=limo.libis.be|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Work
While working on her doctoral thesis, Vandeput became a research assistant with the Belgian National Research Foundation, working on the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project{{Cite web|title=Contributors|url=https://www.saratprojesi.com/who-we-are/contributors|access-date=2021-11-04|website=www.saratprojesi.com|language=en|archive-date=2018-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024014826/https://www.saratprojesi.com/who-we-are/contributors|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project|url=https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sagalassos/main|access-date=2021-11-04|website=www.arts.kuleuven.be|language=en}} based at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and continued post doctoral work on the project until 2001 when she became an assistant professor at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.
Between 1997-8 Vandeput was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Lutgarde Vandeput|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview?tx_rsmavhsolr_solrview%5BpPersonId%5D=1040093&cHash=bf4c8984be18f982f1a9ba01626154a1|access-date=2021-11-04|website=www.humboldt-foundation.de|language=en}} In 2006, Vandeput became the director of the British Institute at Ankara. As part of her work there she oversees the Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey (SARAT) project. She directed the Pisidia Survey Project 1998-2012, and also worked with the Aspendos Archaeological Project 2008-2016. Based on her work in Pisidia, Vandeput has also worked on the BIAA project "Living Amid the Ruins: Archaeological Sites as Hubs of Sustainable Development for Local Communities in Southwest Turkey."{{Cite web|title=Living Amid the Ruins: Archaeological Sites as Hubs of Sustainable Development for Local Communities in Southwest Turkey|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/sustainable-development-living-ruins-archaeological-sites-local-communities-turkey/|access-date=2021-11-04|website=The British Academy|language=en}}
Vandeput sits on the editorial board of the journal Anatolian Studies.{{Cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/information/editorial-board|access-date=2021-11-04|website=Cambridge Core|language=en}}
Honours
Vandeput was awarded an MBE for services to UK/Turkey cultural relations in 2019.{{Cite web|title=Honorary British awards to foreign nationals 2019|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/honorary-british-awards-to-foreign-nationals-2019|access-date=2021-11-04|website=GOV.UK|language=en}}
Selected publications
- The British Institute at Ankara: 60 years young Anatolian Studies 58 (2008), pp. 1-14.
- (with Veli Köse) Pisidia Survey Project: Melli 2000 Anatolian Studies 52 (2002), pp. 145-152.
- The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor: Sagalassos: a case study (Leuven, 1997){{Cite journal|last=Scott|first=Sarah|date=1999|title=L. Vandeput, The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor. Sagalassos: a Case-study. Leuven: Brepols, 1997. Pp. 353, 120 pls, 1 map. ISBN 2-503-50540-6. Fr.b.4000.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/abs/l-vandeput-the-architectural-decoration-in-roman-asia-minor-sagalassos-a-casestudy-leuven-brepols-1997-pp-353-120-pls-1-map-isbn-2503505406-frb4000/5CD6286DB71ECAF2CAB019B22803D077|journal=The Journal of Roman Studies|language=en|volume=89|pages=250|doi=10.2307/300790|jstor=300790 |s2cid=162163899 |issn=1753-528X|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Moretti|first=Jean-Charles|date=1998|title=Lutgarde Vandeput, The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor, Sagalassos : a Case Study (Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology 1) (1997)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_1998_num_8_1_1384|journal=Topoi. Orient-Occident|volume=8|issue=1|pages=375–377}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Lutgarde+Vandeput&qt=owc_searcht Lutgarde Vandeput] on WorldCat
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Category:Academic staff of KU Leuven
Category:Belgian classical scholars
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire