Ballot Archive

09 Apr 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Eszter Banffy

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA, BA, PhD, DSc, Dr habil

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist

Grounds for election

Eszter Bánffy was elected Director of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission in 2013, having previously been Vice Director of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of the Sciences. She has researched widely on the Neolithic and Copper Age. She was a DAAD scholar in Heidelberg in 1983, completing her PhD at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1998, was visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg and Fulbright Scholar in Harvard, and holds a chair in geoarchaeology at Szeged University. Among the excavations that she has directed are those at the important early Neolithic site of Szentgyörgyvölgy-Pityerdomb. Publications include “Cult Objects of the Neolithic Lengyel Culture. Connections and Interpretation (Budapest 1997)” and “The 6th Millennium BC Boundary in Western Transdanubia and its Role in the Central European Transition (Budapest 2004)”. Since 2006 she has been active in the EAA, from 2008 to 2011 as secretary.

Signatories

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