Flaminia Bartolini
is a Classical archaeologist and heritage specialist, a Leverhulme Trust Fellow based at the Institute for Heritage Science at the Italian National Research Council (ISPC-CNR) and a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. She works on how politics of the past are constructed, with a primary interest in Fascism, colonialism and in how museums deal with controversial collections. Bartolini finalized her Ph.D. at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (University of Cambridge), where she also obtained her MPhil. She is an ICCROM 2017 Fellow and ICOMOS Scientific Committee Member for the Protection of 20th Century Heritage.
Maria Chidiroglou
is an archaeologist of the Greek Archaeological Service and currently works as a curator in the Department of the Collections of Vases, Metal and Minor Arts Artifacts of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. She received her degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens (1986) and attended archaeological summer seminars at the University of London. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Athens (2012). She has participated in a number of archaeological research programs in Southern Euboea, organized by the Foreign Archaeological Schools in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea, as well as in exhibition projects of the National Archaeological Museum.
Carlotta Coccoli
is Associate Professor of Architectural Restoration at the Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy). Her main field of research is the protection of cultural (mainly architectural) heritage in crisis areas (armed conflicts and natural disasters). In particular, she has studied the organization of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Subcommission in Italy and Japan during the Second World War. She is co-editor of Guerra, monumenti, ricostruzione. Architetture e centri storici italiani nel secondo conflitto mondiale (2011), Britain At War. Damages, Debates, Reconstruction During and After the Second World War (2018) and is the author of Monumenti violati. Danni bellici e riparazioni in Italia nel 1943–1945: il ruolo degli Alleati (2017).
Antonino ‘Nino’ Crisà
is an archaeologist, historian, and numismatist, currently Assistant Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (
Jan Driessen
is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Université catholique Louvain (Belgium), where he directs the Aegis Research Group, and Marion Rawson Fellow at the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. He is also director of the Sissi Archaeological Project (https://www.sarpedon.be) on Crete and co-director of the Pyla Kokkinokremos excavations on Cyprus. His interest in wartime archaeology is a consequence of the discovery of Axis-related evidence at the site of Sissi.
Germano Germanò
is an architect, archaeologist and heritage specialist, currently Architecture Official at the Italian Ministry of Culture. As Ph.D. candidate in Mediterranean Archaeology and Cultures (SSM, Naples), his project is focused on ancient building sites, with special reference to Magna Graecia. He studied at Polytechnic and University of Bari, and his studies and publications focuses on ancient architecture (Greek, Roman and Romanesque), byzantine and medieval art, ancient quarries and museums. He has also participated in different archaeological excavations in Italy and Greece (Metaponto, Aquinum, Kos, Saturo) and collaborated with many archaeological museums, involved in exhibitions, graphic reconstructions and editorial processes.
Fotios Katevas
was born in 1974. He works at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens (Greek Ministry of Culture) as a supervisor of conservation teams in the Kerameikos museum and archaeological site in the Sanctuary of Zeus Olympios (Athens) and also as a museologist. He has also worked at the Propylaea of Acropolis, the New Museum of Acropolis, the Archaeological Museum, the site of Karditsa, the Ancient Agora of Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Monastery of Dafni (Attica), the Byzantine monuments of Kozani area and many other Greek sites.
has been General Curator for Cultural Heritage at the French Ministry of Culture since 1985. His current research focuses on the epistemology of archaeology (mainly the role of ideology in archaeology) and the archaeology of the recent past (mainly of the Second World War). His book publications include: L’archéologie nazie en Europe de l’Ouest (co-edited with Laurent Olivier and Bernadette Schnitzler, 2007), Vestiges de guerre en Lorraine: le patrimoine des conflits mondiaux (co-edited with Stéphanie Jacquemot, 2011) and Clashes of Time: The Contemporary Past as a Challenge for Archaeology (co-edited with Jean-Marie Blaising, Jan Driessen and Laurent Olivier, 2017). For 25 years, he was also co-editor of the journal Archaeologia Mosellana.
Laurent Olivier
is an archaeologist, currently the general curator of the Celtic and Gallic Department at the French National Museum of Archaeology (MAN) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He got his Doctorate in Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), a Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and a “thèse d’habilitation à diriger des recherches” (HDR) at the University of Paris I. An important part of his work is focused on the history of the archaeological discipline and its place in the building of collective identities. Amongst others, he has published Le sombre abîme du Temps, mémoire et archéologie (2008: English translation in 2011), Nos ancêtres les Germains. Les archéologues allemands et français au service du nazisme (2012) and Ce qui est arrivé à Wounded Knee (2021).
Nigel Pollard
is a professor of history, heritage and classics at Swansea University, Wales. Trained as an archaeologist with field experience in Egypt, Italy, Syria, Tunisia and the UK, his current research focuses on the treatment and protection of heritage sites in conflict. In particular, he seeks to apply the lessons of the Second World War to modern cultural property protection as a board member of UK Blue Shield and by contributing to the training of the UK military Cultural Property Protection Unit. His most recent monograph, Bombing Pompeii: World Heritage and Military Necessity, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020.
Simon Stoddart
is a professor of prehistory at the University of Cambridge and was co-director of the Troina (Sicily) project with Caroline Malone between 1996 and 2003, returning in 2015 to create the first archaeological museum of the city. He has
Suzie Thomas
is a professor of heritage studies at the Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium). In her previous work at the University of Helsinki (Finland), she was a part of the research team for Lapland’s Dark Heritage, an interdisciplinary project that investigated the different processes by which the material remains of the Second World War come to be regarded as heritage in Finnish Lapland. Suzie studied for her BA in Archaeology & Prehistory at the University of Sheffield (UK) and has an MA in Heritage Education and Interpretation and a Ph.D. from Newcastle University (UK).
Chrysanthi Tsouli
is a classical archaeologist. She obtained her degree at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) in 2013, focusing on the Koan funerary monuments. Since 1997, she has been working as a curator in the Sculpture Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Her research focuses on the art and visual culture of ancient Greece, especially on Classical sculpture and funerary archaeology. However, she is also interested in cultural heritage and the fate of Greek antiquities during the Greek War of Independence and the Second World War.