Dr Christina Hatzimichael-Whitley

Born in Greece and deeply rooted in its landscape and history, Christina brings to her work a rare combination of personal connection and scholarly rigour. A lecturer at Cardiff University, her expertise centres on the Aegean Bronze Age, though her teaching ranges widely – from Greek art and archaeology through the Classical and Byzantine periods to gender theory and Modern Greek.

She holds degrees from three of the world’s leading universities – Thessaloniki, Toronto and Cambridge – and has excavated extensively across Greece and Cyprus. As assistant director of the Praisos Project in Crete, she has been at the heart of a major survey and excavation of the Classical city of Praisos. Christina has been sharing this knowledge and passion with travellers on specialist tours in both Britain and the United States for more than a decade.