Fotini Kondyli is Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology and NEH Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor (2021–2023) at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include spatial practices, community building processes, and the material culture of Byzantine non-elites as well as cultural, economic, and political networks in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Byzantine period. Her work brings together archaeology, archival research, spatial analysis, and digital humanities. Her recent publications include Rural Communities in Late Byzantium, Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-edited volume The Byzantine Neighbourhood. Urban Space and Political Action (Routledge, 2022).

As an active field archaeologist, Professor Kondyli has worked in numerous archaeological sites in Greece, Albania, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Germany. She is currently involved in archaeological projects at Athens, Thebes, northern Attica, and Samothrace. At Athens, she is working with legacy data from the Athenian Agora Excavations to explore processes of city-making and the role of different social groups in the development of Athens in the Middle and Late Byzantine/Frankish periods. She is also the director of the Inhabiting Byzantine Athens digital project. In collaboration with The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Scholars’ Lab at UVA, she is employing computational methods to identify and systematically extract information from the Athenian Agora Excavations’ archives pertaining to the Byzantine and Frankish periods.