Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Geneviève Maachou received her B.A. in European Art History and Archaeology, with Honours from the Sorbonne-Université (Paris IV) in 2017, with additional coursework at University of Heidelberg. She also earned an M.Sc., in Applied Sciences to Cultural Heritage from the Università degli studi di Padova in 2025, with a master's thesis on long-term ceramic traditions at Nea Paphos (Cyprus), and indigenous communities’ traditions of pottery production or other crafts navigated external pressures in the longue durée. Her research interests include late Iron Age in Cyprus; archaeology of resilience; post-colonial archaeology; digital humanities; ancient technologies; experimental archaeology; archaeometry. Geneviève has participated in fieldwork at Tyre (Lebanon); with the Galatàs Pediada Project and at Thorikos, Delos, and Koumasa, all in Greece; and with the East-Stoa Project in Labraunda and the French Excavations at Miletus, both in Turkey. She has also assisted with curatorial and archival work at the Knossos Research Centre at the British School at Athens (BSA), and helped with sample preparation and processing of sediments and deposits at the BSA's Fitch Laboratory.