Kostis Kourelis 

Kostis Kourelis teaches art history, specializing in ancient and medieval art, architecture and archaeology. He conducts excavations in Greece, Italy and Ukraine, and directs the Clemson-Clarentia Archaeological Project. Dr Kourelis has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania and Arcadia University. He is involved in summer field schools from Princeton University, Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He is the founder and director of the Greek Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Group of the Archaeological Institute of America. Other professional affiliations include the Society of Architectural Historians and the College Art Association. Dr. Kourelis received a stipend from the National Endowment of the Humanities in 2004, and a Mellon Foundation fellowship in 2004-05. Dr. Kourelis is currently writing a book on the medieval settlements of the Peloponnesos. In addition to scholarship and teaching, Dr. Kourelis loves to bake.

Houses of the Morea: Vernacular Architecture of the Northwest Peloponnesos (1205-1955), with Frederick A. Cooper, Helen B. Foster, Mary Coulton, and Joseph D. Alchermes (Athens: Melissa Publishing House, 2002)

"Early Travelers in the Peloponnese and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History," The Architecture of Tourism: Perceptions, Performance and Space, ed. D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004) pp. 37-52

"The Rural House in the Medieval Peloponnese: An Archaeological Reassessment of Byzantine Domestic Architecture," Archaeology in Architecture, ed. Judson J. Emerick and Deborah Deliyannis (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2005)

"Urban Legend: Architecture in Lord of the Rings," with Steven Woodward (English Department), From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter JacksonÕs Lord of the Rings, ed. Murray Pomerance and Ernest Mathijs (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005) in press