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George Henry Dukakis
Born	(1976-07-03) July 3, 1976 Niskayuna, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Awards	Harvard Society of Fellows Prize (2001)

George Henry Dukakis MA PhD (born in Niskayuna, New York, 3 July 1976) is an Associate Professor of Classics at Chicago University. He was educated at Columbia University and Harvard University.

Early life and education

Dukakis grew up in Niskayuna, New York and was educated at Niskayuna High School. He won a place to study at Columbia University, New York City in 1994. He went on to undertake graduate study at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he made significant discoveries of Greek antiquities on an independantly funded research project. He was appointed Assisstant Professor at the Classics department of Chicago University. In the academic yeard 2010-2011 he is a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Academic Career

Dukakis gained attention with his first peer reviewed article, Sex and the City State: Geographical Variance in Ancient Hellenistic Feminist Attitudes while still at Harvard Graduate School. His work is interdisciplinary, combining elements of Philology, Linguistics and Archaeology. He is an authority on the achaeological findings of both Sparta and Athens during the Athenian Golden Age, as well as classical texts of this period, often incorporating postmodern theory into the study of these ancient writings.

He has worked on a number of archaeological digs, unearthing several unique treasures. Some of his most prominent findings are from recent digs around Athens, such as a large marble vessel stand with crouching lion motif^[1] and an Athenian black figure pottery cup with Gorgon's head decoration^[2]. These are both now housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK, after generous donation by Dukakis. His most significant book to date is A Calligraphers Hand: Ancient Writings and Modern Kinks, published by Harvard University Press in 2009. He has been the subject of a Documentary in the New Thinkers series, made by british documentarian and filmmaker Ronald Nixon.

Publications

Books

• The Response of Theory to the New Archaeology of Classical Greece (2004)
• A Calligraphers Hand: Ancient Writings and Modern Kinks (2009)

Articles

• 'Sex and the City State: Geographical Variance in Ancient Hellenistic Feminist Attitudes' (1999)
• 'Re-De-constructing Postmodernist Theory: Trancendentalism in Socrates and Plato' (2001)
• 'A report on important finds from Athens are the surrounding area' (2003)
• 'Gendering the Hand: Theory and calligraphic finds from the Acropolis' (2005)

Notes

1. Ashmolean Museum, Gallery 16, Greece, Centre Section, exhibit 3.
2. Ashmolean Museum, Gallery 16, Greece, Centre Section, exhibit 6.