Helene Whittaker Explained

Helène Whittaker
Birth Date:	1958 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Trondheim, Norway
Citizenship:	Canadian, Norwegian
Alma Mater:	University of Toronto, University of Tromsø
Thesis Title:	Mycenaean cult buildings : a study of their architecture and function in the context of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9788291626031
Thesis Year:	1997
Doctoral Advisor:	Joseph Shaw
Doctoral Students:	Robin Rönnlund
Known For:	Archaeology, Classics

Helène Whittaker (born 13 March 1958) is a Canadian-Norwegian archaeologist and scholar of antiquity. She is known for her work on the Bronze Age Aegean, ancient Greek and Roman language and culture, and Early Christianity., she is professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Education and career

Whittaker studied languages and archeology at the University of Bergen, finishing her candidata philologiae in 1983. She continued her studies at the University of Tromsø and the University of Toronto, completing a Ph.D. in 1996.

Having been a senior lecturer at the University of Tromsø in 1994–2004, she was promoted to full professor at the same university in 2004. In 2009, she was the Peter W. Warren visiting professor in Aegean prehistory at the University of Bristol. In 2013, she accepted the position as professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Together with Maria Vaïopoulou, she directed the Greek-Swedish Vlochos Archaeological Project at Thessalian Vlochos in 2016–2018.

Work

Whittaker is known for her work on archaeology and antiquity. A portion of her research examines the history of games,^{[1] [2]} and she has commented on the historical significance of hnefatafl, an ancient board game that was common during the early Middle Ages.^[3]

Selected publications

• Book: Whittaker, Helène . 1997 . Mycenaean Cult Buildings. A Study of their Architecture and Function in the Context of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean . ^[4]
• Book: Ancient warfare : introducing current research . 2015 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . Geoff. Lee. Helene. Whittaker. Graham . Wrightson . 1-4438-8236-4 . Newcastle upon Tyne . 922704152. ^[5]
• Book: Whittaker. Helène. 2014. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece. New York. Cambridge University Press. 9781107049871. ^[6]
• Book: Whittaker, Helène. 2018. Approaches to Popular Religion in Late Bronze Age Greece. Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxford. Archaeopress. 55–62. Vavouranakis. Giorgos. Kopanias. Konstantinos. Kanellopoulos. Chrysanthos.
• Vaïopoulou . Maria . Whittaker . Helene . Rönnlund . Robin . Tsiouka . Fotini . Klange . Johan . Pitman . Derek . Potter . Rich . Shaw . Lawrence . Hagan . Josephine . Siljedahl . Ellen . Forssén . Matilda . Chandrasekaran . Sujatha . Dandou . Sotiria . Forsblom Ljungdahl . Veronica . Pavilionytė . Asta . Scott-Pratt . Hayden . Schager . Elisabet . Manley . Harry . 2020 . The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece . Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome . 13 . 7–72 . 10.30549/opathrom-13-02 . free.

Awards and honours

In 2014 Whittaker was named to the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg.^[7] She was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kutilova . Klara . 2017-09-27 . Tělo vikinské bojovnice mění pohled na roli žen ve středověku . 2023-02-11 . Flowee . cs-cz.
2. Whittaker . Helène . June 1, 2006 . Game-boards and gaming-pieces in funerary contexts in the Northern European iron age . Nordlit . 20 . 103-112 .
3. Web site: Crown . Daniel . 2018-06-26 . The Vikings Took This Board Game Very Seriously . 2023-02-11 . Atlas Obscura . en.
4. Review for Mycenaean Cult Buildings
   • Darcque . Pascal . 2001 . Review of Mycenaean Cult Buildings, A Study of their Architecture and Function in the Context of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean (Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 1), 1 vol. . Revue Archéologique . 2 . 368–370 . 0035-0737.
5. Review for Ancient Warfare
   • Konijnendijk . Roel . 2017 . Review of Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, volume I . Latomus . 76 . 3 . 863–865 . 0023-8856.
6. Reviews for Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece
   • PULLEN . DANIEL J. . 2015 . Review of Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece, Helène Whittaker . The Classical World . 108 . 4 . 580–581 . 0009-8418.
   • Lupack . Susan . 2015 . Helène Whittaker. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 291pp., 14 figs., 7 maps, hbk, ISBN 978-1-04987-1) . European Journal of Archaeology . en . 18 . 4 . 734–738 . 10.1179/1461957115Z.000000000151 . 1461-9571.
7. Web site: . Ledamöter, Kungliga Vitterhets- och Vetenskapssamhället i Göteborg . 2022-08-04 .
8. Web site: . Helène Whittaker, Academia Europea . 2022-08-04 .