Eeva-Maria Viitanen
Domestic architecture has been one of my main interests in all kinds of archaeology almost as long as I have been working in the field. I graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Helsinki in 1996 with an MA thesis on Finnish Iron Age/Early Medieval settlement site at Hämeenlinna Varikonniemi, particularly on the structures and burnt clay found during the excavations 1986-1993.
For my PhD dissertation I decided to migrate to a warmer climate and studied the relationship of the Roman villas and their environment in the surroundings of Rome (in papers: Locus Bonus etc.). Landscape studies and spatiality of architecture and other material culture became new important topics at this time.
During the period of working on my dissertation I was also able to participate in the excavations of a Roman villa at Loc. Santa Maria in Nemi in the Alban Hills (1998-2002). The project was organized by the Nordic institutes in Rome and we'll hopefully be able to finish the publication in the next couple of years. This project gave me a very important insight into the formation process of Roman villas and my first experience in buildings archaeology.
In 2011, I started working in a new project on Roman inscriptions in their spatial contexts with Kalle Korhonen and Laura Nissin. The funding came from the University of Helsinki. Our main topics have been so far electoral notices in the facades of Pompeii and stamped lead pipes in the surroundings of Rome. The project finished officially in 2013, but some papers are still on their way. It feels amazing that the archaeological contexts of various kinds of texts are only now beginning to get analyzed.
Pompeii has been one of my research interests since 2002 when the Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis Helsingiensis started. The Finnish team worked on the insula IX 3 in the field until 2012 when the field work phase finished. Some preliminary results were published in connection with the exhibition Domus Pompeiana - Una casa a Pompeii organized in Helsinki in 2008. The final publication is under preparation with the funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. I am responsible for buildings archaeology and most of the excavations. Being able to participate in the planning and execution of a major research project has been a fantastic (and exhausting) experience. It has also gotten me very interested in research design, documentation methods, and databases.
In addition to research, I've previously worked at the Department of Archaeology as an amanuensis teaching and taking care of administration of teaching, advising students etc. From 2012 to 2016 I worked as the secretary of the Foundation Institutum Romanum Finlandiae taking care of the administration of the affairs of the Finnish Institute in Rome in Finland. In August 2016 I started a three-year term as the vice director of the Finnish Institute in Rome and during that time will continue to work on Pompeian wall inscriptions.
For my PhD dissertation I decided to migrate to a warmer climate and studied the relationship of the Roman villas and their environment in the surroundings of Rome (in papers: Locus Bonus etc.). Landscape studies and spatiality of architecture and other material culture became new important topics at this time.
During the period of working on my dissertation I was also able to participate in the excavations of a Roman villa at Loc. Santa Maria in Nemi in the Alban Hills (1998-2002). The project was organized by the Nordic institutes in Rome and we'll hopefully be able to finish the publication in the next couple of years. This project gave me a very important insight into the formation process of Roman villas and my first experience in buildings archaeology.
In 2011, I started working in a new project on Roman inscriptions in their spatial contexts with Kalle Korhonen and Laura Nissin. The funding came from the University of Helsinki. Our main topics have been so far electoral notices in the facades of Pompeii and stamped lead pipes in the surroundings of Rome. The project finished officially in 2013, but some papers are still on their way. It feels amazing that the archaeological contexts of various kinds of texts are only now beginning to get analyzed.
Pompeii has been one of my research interests since 2002 when the Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis Helsingiensis started. The Finnish team worked on the insula IX 3 in the field until 2012 when the field work phase finished. Some preliminary results were published in connection with the exhibition Domus Pompeiana - Una casa a Pompeii organized in Helsinki in 2008. The final publication is under preparation with the funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. I am responsible for buildings archaeology and most of the excavations. Being able to participate in the planning and execution of a major research project has been a fantastic (and exhausting) experience. It has also gotten me very interested in research design, documentation methods, and databases.
In addition to research, I've previously worked at the Department of Archaeology as an amanuensis teaching and taking care of administration of teaching, advising students etc. From 2012 to 2016 I worked as the secretary of the Foundation Institutum Romanum Finlandiae taking care of the administration of the affairs of the Finnish Institute in Rome in Finland. In August 2016 I started a three-year term as the vice director of the Finnish Institute in Rome and during that time will continue to work on Pompeian wall inscriptions.
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