Dr. Helen Dawson

Helen Dawson is Adjunct Professor at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilisations at the University of Bologna, and Affiliate Research Fellow at the Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of “Mediterranean Voyages. The Archaeology of Island Colonisation and Abandonment” (Left Coast Press 2014) and of several journal articles exploring cultural and environmental adaptations in the smaller islands of the Mediterranean. Her current research explores different forms of networks and the recursive relations shaping social practices and space, as seen through the lens of insularity.