A.G. Leventis Fellow 2025-27 Dr Rachel Phillips
The British School at Athens is delighted to announce that the recipient of the new A.G. Leventis Fellowship in Hellenic Studies is Dr Rachel Phillips.
The Fellowship, which has been funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation for over 20 years, is awarded to researchers at post-doctoral level to support research into the anthropology, archaeology, architecture, arts, environment, geography, history, language, literature, religion and topography of Greece and Cyprus, and related areas, from prehistory to the early 20th century.
Rachel is an art historian and archaeologist, who specialises in the material culture of Late Bronze Age Greece. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her BA and MPhil degrees. Her doctoral thesis examined the curation of early Mycenaean tomb assemblages in the Peloponnese, with a focus on the relations between bodies and objects. Rachel spent some time at the BSA over the course of her PhD, most recently as the Macmillan-Rodewald student. As the Leventis fellow 2025-27, she will work on a book project about the intersection of art, death, and ritual action in early Greece, which looks at the aesthetic expressions of ritual depositions across the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.
photo: Rachel exploring the landscape at Thorikos in 2024. Courtesy of R. Phillips