Georgina Muskett PhD is Curator of Antiquities at World Museum Liverpool, with responsibility for the Aegean, Greek and Roman collections, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.
2011 Tours
Crete - Minoans, Greeks & Romans Tue 3 – Thu 12 May
Biography
Georgina took up her post as Curator of Antiquities at World Museum Liverpool in 2009. She has responsibility for the Classical collections, which includes the Ince Blundell collection of classical sculpture. She also holds an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, where she previously lectured in Greek art and archaeology as well as organising the Continuing Education programme in Archaeology and Ancient Languages.Georgina's is currently working on several research projects, including a book on Greek sculpture. She is also the author of "Mycenaean Art: a psychological approach" and has written articles on various aspects of Aegean and Greek art.
Georgina has travelled extensively in Greece, and has a particular fondness for the island of Crete.
Publications
Forthcoming:1. Greek Sculpture (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. Bristol Classical Press: Classical World series).
2. With Dr. Sarah Bolmarcich, University of Minnesota: ‘Artists'signatures on Archaic Greek Vases' in P. Schultz and K. Seaman (eds.), Artistic Personalities in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press.
2009: Review of K. Lapatin (ed.), 2008. Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. American Journal of Archaeology 113.3.
2008a: ‘Akrotiri', ‘Knossos', ‘Mycenae', ‘Boğazköy' and ‘Troy' in P. Bahn (ed.) Exploring the Ancient World (AA Publishing, Basingstoke).
2008b: ‘Images of children in the Greek Bronze Age: the evidence from the Greek mainland'. Childhood in the Past 1, 38-48.
2008c: 'Gender boundaries in Late Bronze Age Greece: the contribution of dress' in C.Gallou, M.Georgiadis and G.M.Muskett (eds.), Dioskouroi: Studies presented to W.G.Cavanagh and C.B.Mee on the anniversary of their joint contribution to Aegean Archaeology (BAR-IS 1889, Oxford), 90-96.
2008d: Review of E. Rystedt and B. Wells (eds.), 2006. Pictorial Pursuits, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 128, 247-8.
2007: Mycenaean Art: a psychological approach (BAR-IS 1636, Oxford)(75 pages, 18 illustrations).
2007: "Images of Artemis in Mycenaean Greece", Journal of Prehistoric Religion 20, 53-68.
2007: 'The (Mis)representation of the Minoans: Pastiche, Parody and Late Bronze Age Crete' in M. Robinson (ed.). Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel (Leeds).
2005: "Egypt and Mycenaean Greece: a Mycenaean Perspective" in A. Cooke and F. Simpson (eds.), Current Research in Egyptology II (BAR-IS 1380, Oxford), 39-46.
2004 "Colour Coding and the Representation of Costumes in Mycenaean Wall Painting", in L. Cleland, G. Davies and K. Stears (eds.) Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World (BAR-IS 1267; Oxford), 65-9.
2003 Review: J. Lesley Fitton, "Minoans" Antiquity 77(No.297, September 2003), 633-5.
2002 "Kolonna in the Middle Bronze Age; the role of the sea" in M. Georgiadis and G. Muskett (eds.), Proceedings of the Liverpool Interdisciplinary Seminar in Antiquity: The Seas of Antiquity (Liverpool), 6-17.
2002 "La caza en la Grecia Micénica" (in Spanish), Revista de Arqueología del siglo XXI, no. 261, 30-5.
2001 "The masks from the Shaft Graves in Grave Circles A and B at Mycenae" (Extended Abstract), in G. Vavouranakis (ed.), Past Conference Review, SOMA 2000, Assemblage 6
