Professor Irene Lemos elected as a Corresponding Member of the AIA

The College is pleased to share that Professor Irene S Lemos, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America. 

Corresponding Members of the AIA are distinguished scholars outside the United States and Canada who have attained acknowledged eminence in some branch of archaeology, or in the arts and sciences related thereto, including the fields of education, conservation, and museums. View the full 2024 Council Election Results. 

Professor Lemos’ research area is the archaeology of Early Greece from the 'collapse' of the Mycenaean culture to the Persian wars (from around 1200-480 BC). Since 2003 she has been the Director of Excavations and Publications of the finds at the site of Lefkandi on the Greek island of Euboea, a site that provides important archaeological evidence for the not widely known late stages of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of ancient Greece.