Democritus University of Thrace,
School of Classics and Humanities,
Department of History and Ethnology,
P. Tsaldari 1, 69100, Komotini, Greece
durem@he.duth.gr
Biography and bibliography:
https://www.he.duth.gr/en/staff/hristina-ntoysanka-oyrem-kotsoy
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dushka_Urem-Kotsou3
https://duth.academia.edu/dushkaurem
Dushka Urem – Kotsou is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). She was a visiting researcher at the University of Bradford (UK), at the University of Bristol (UK), and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. She has directed more than 15 research programmes focusing on the study of Neolithic pottery, has been chief researcher in another 11 projects and has carried out archaeological research in Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro, and ethnographic research in northern Greece. From 2019 to 2023 she was PI of the project Mapping the early farmers in Thrace, and from 2023 co-director of archaeological investigations at the prehistoric settlement of Paradimi in Thrace (excavations) and its wider area (surface survey).
She is the author of one book The Limska Gradina hillfort: pottery from the cemetery area (2012), has edited two volumes (peer reviewed), contributed 15 chapters in books, published 53 scientific articles, participated in 90 scientific conferences in Greece and abroad, has co-organised two international conferences and two workshops. She has been reviewer of 6 scientific projects for large European foundations, and of 12 international scientific journals. In 2023 she was awarded an Excellence Award for distinguished research achievements by the Democritus University of Thrace, School of Classics and Humanities.