Michael Cosmopoulos

Michael Basil Cosmopoulos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Βασιλείου Κοσμόπουλος; born 1963). Professor of Classical Archaeology. Fellow, Academy of Science St. Louis; member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Holder of Endowed Professorship in Greek Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

As of August 2001, Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Endowed Professor of Greek Studies [1] and Professor of Classical Archaeology with the Department of Anthropology at University of Missouri-St. Louis. Before that, he was Professor of Classics and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Civilization of the University of Manitoba [2], in Winnipeg, Canada.

He has studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, and Classical Languages at the University of Athens (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981), the University of Sorbonne-Paris IV (D.E.U.G., 1983), and Washington University in St. Louis (M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989). He also holds a Diploma in Underwater Archaeology from the Council of Europe (1984).

He has published 15 books and more than 100 articles and scholarly papers on the social, political, and cultural history of ancient Greece. He has excavated at several ancient sites, including Eleusis, Mycenae, Epidauros, Ancient Corinth, Ithaca, Pylos, and Oropos. Since 1999 he directs the Iklaina Archaeological Project. Some of his books are:

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