Curriculum Vitae
Education
2004 PhD, archaeology, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, USA, Dissertation: “Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy: Archaeological Evidence”, Advisors: Prof. Jean M. Turfa, Prof. Richard S. Ellis
1999 MA, archaeology, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, USA, Thesis: “Textile Production in Etruria: The Case of Poggio Civitate (Murlo)”
1997 BS, biology and art history (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa), Cook College, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA
1992 High school diploma with Silver Medal, Secondary School 138, Kiev, Ukraine
Academic Career
10/2011-pres. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/honorary/margarita-gleba-honorary-senior-lecturer
07/2019-07/2020 Affiliated scholar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
10/2018-06/2019 Principal Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
10/2015-09/2018 European Research Council Principal Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
01/2014-09/2015 European Research Council Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
04-12/2013 European Research Council Principal Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK
2012 Independent Consultant in Archaeology (commissions by the Qatar Museums Authority; Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen)
10/2011-03/2013 Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University
College London, UK
10/2009-9/2011 Marie Curie Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK
06-09/2009 Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11/2006-09/2009 Research Program Manager, Centre for Textile Research, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
10/2005-05/2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
01-05/2005 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Classics, Rutgers University, USA
Grants and awards
2019 Synthesis Project Access funding for Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria
2019 The Pasold Research Fund Research Activity Grant
2013-2018 European Research Council Starting Grant (FP/2007-2013-312603) – PI
2018 McDonald Grants & Awards Fund, University of Cambridge, UK
2016 McDonald Grants & Awards Fund, University of Cambridge, UK
2015 Thriplow Charitable Trust award, UK
2015 McDonald Grants & Awards Fund, University of Cambridge, UK
2015 Synthesis Project Access funding for Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria
2014 The Pasold Research Fund Travel Grant, UK
2009 European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop Grant
2009-2011 European Commission Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008-236263
2007-2012 European Commission Education and Culture, EACEA 9/2006, DressID project – Co-investigator
2007-2009 OAK Foundation/ Oticon Foundation, Denmark, New Web Technologies and Research – Co-investigator
2007 Danish Research Council for the Humanities Conference Grant, Denmark
2007 The Pasold Research Fund Grant, UK
2006 The Aylwin Cotton Foundation Publication Grant, UK
2005-2010 Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Textile Research – Co-investigator
2003-2004 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, USA
2002-2003 Bryn Mawr Bryne-Rubel Traveling Fellowship, USA (declined)
2002-2003 Archaeological Institute of America Olivia James Traveling Fellowship, USA ($18,500)
2002 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant, USA
2001-2002 Bryn Mawr Bryne-Rubel Traveling Fellowship, USA
2000-2001 Bryn Mawr Graduate Fellowship, USA
1998-2000 Bryn Mawr Teaching Assistantship, USA
1999 Etruscan Foundation Graduate Scholarship, USA
1997-1998 Bryn Mawr Graduate Fellowship, USA
1997 Anne Cox Chambers Excavation Scholarship, USA
1995-1996 George H. Cook Scholar, USA
1995 William Martin Scholarship, USA
Teaching
Academic
2014-2020 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCLG123: Conservation materials science, MA level
2016-2018 Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK, module G02: Core Archaeology, MA/PhD level
2018 Plenary lecturer, Institute for Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK, Ancient and Classical Worlds Summer Programme AE0, BA level
2018 Course co-ordinator and lecturer, Institute for Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK, Ancient and Classical Worlds Summer Programme, module Eb1: Demystifying Etruscans, BA level
2016-2017 Course co-ordinator and lecturer, Institute for Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK, Ancient and Classical Worlds Summer Programme, module Eb1: Culture and religion in Etruria and Rome, BA level
2016 Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK, module ARC 7: Archaeological Theory and Practice II “Economy and Technology”, BA level
2015 Course co-ordinator of Part 1 and lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK, module ARC 13: Special Topics in European Prehistory, BA/MA level
2014, 2016 Lecturer, Department of History of Art, University College London, UK, course HART2239 “The Development and Application of Textiles in Works of Art and Artefacts”, BA level
2013 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCL2037: Interpreting Archaeological Evidence, BA core course
2011, 2014 Course coordinator and lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCLG223: Textile Archaeology, MA level
2011, 2014 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCL1010: Introduction to European Prehistory, BA level
2011, 2012 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCLG220: Experimental Archaeology, MA level
2011 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCL3086: Archaeology of Etruscan Italy, BA level
2011 Guest lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, course “European textile production: Fashion, production and consumption in Antiquity”, MA level
2010 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCL2028: Current Issues in Archaeological Theory”, BA level
2010 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, course ARCL2038: Research and Presentation Skills in Archaeology, BA level
2009 Guest lecturer, Lund University, Sweden, course “Etruscology”, BA level
2008 Guest lecturer, Lund University, Sweden, course “Etruscology”, BA level
2006 Lecturer, Kolding Design School, Denmark, course “History of Costume”, BA level
2006 Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, course “Archaeology of textiles”, MA level
2005 Course coordinator and lecturer, Department of Classics, Rutgers University, USA, courses 190:207: Greek and Roman Mythology, 190:326: Greek and Roman Religion, BA level
2004 Guest lecturer, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, USA, course “Ancient Technologies”, BA level
1998-2000 Teaching Assistant, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, USA, courses 101-102: Survey of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, BA level
Field
2002-2006 Poggio delle Civitelle, Italy, Florida State University, USA, course CLA 4780/5789 - Field Work, BA level
2003, 2005-2009 Campo della Fiera (Orvieto), Italy, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA, course Classics 463: Archaeological Excavation, BA level
1997-1999 Poggio Civitate, Murlo, Italy, University of Evansville Field School, BA level
Supervision ans assessment
2019-pres. PhD External Supervisor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2019-2020 MA Supervisor, University College London, UK
2019 External examiner, PhD, University of Liverpool, UK
2016-present PhD Advisor, University of Cambridge, UK
2017-2018 Acting Director of Studies in Archaeology, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK
2017 External examiner, PhD, University of Liverpool, UK
2015 External examiner, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
2015 Internal examiner, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
2015 External examiner, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 External examiner, MA, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2011-2017 Internal examiner, MA, University College London, UK
2010 External examiner and opponent, PhD, University of Oulu, Finland
Excavations
2002-2009 Campo della Fiera, Orvieto, Italy (Università di Macerata, Italy and University of Arizona at Tucson, USA)
2004-2007 Assistant Director, American-Ukrainian Scythian Kurhan Project, Ukraine (Florida State University, USA and Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
2002-2006 Associate Director, Poggio delle Civitelle, San Venanzo, Italy (Florida State University, USA)
2000-2001 Fıstıklı Höyük, Turkey (University of Binghamton, USA)
2000 Cavallino, Lecce, Italy (Università di Lecce, Italy)
1997-1999 Poggio Civitate, Murlo, Italy (University of Evansville, USA)
Conference orgnisation
2021 27th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Session Economic and Technological Networks of the Eurasian Steppes, Kiel, Germany, September 2021 (principal organiser; submitted)
2020 26th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Session Economic and Technological Networks of the Eurasian Steppes, Budapest, Hungary, August 2020 (principal organiser; accepted, postponed due to Covid19)
2019 Early Textiles Study Group biannual conference Fibres, University of Glasgow, UK, 6-8 June 2019 (co-organiser)
2017 International Symposium Making Cities: Economies of Production and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE, McDonald Institute, Cambridge, UK, 18-19 May 2017 (principal organiser)
2017 International Workshop Interweaving Cultures: Textile Production, Rituality and Trade in the Late Bronze – Early Iron Age Iberian Peninsula, The Spanish National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid, Spain, 17 March 2017 (principal organiser)
2016 International Symposium Purpureae Vestes VI, Padova-Este-Altino, Italy, 20-22 October 2016 (co-organiser)
2016 International Workshop Weaving the Past: The Archaeology of Textiles and Textile Production in Greece in the First Millennium BCE, Athens, Greece, 18 March 2016 (principal organiser)
2016 International Conference Contextualising Textile Production in Italy in the 1st millennium BCE, Villa Giulia Museum/ Danish Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 11-13 February 2016 (principal organiser)
2015 International Conference Craft and Production in the European Iron Age, University of Cambridge, UK, 25-27 September (co-organiser)
2015 2nd MIAR Textile Workshop Plant to Cloth: Latest in Archaeological Fibre Research, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK, 25 March 2015 (principal organiser)
2015 International Workshop The Fabric of Life: Approaches to Textile Resources, Economy and Production in Ancient Italy, British School at Rome/Villa Giulia Museum, Rome, Italy, 26 February 2015 (principal organiser)
2014 Organised Panel Fibre Revolutions: Change and Innovation in Textile Materials and Production in the Ancient Old World, Textile Society of America biennial symposium, Los Angele, USA, 11 September 2014 (principal organiser)
2014 1st MIAR Textile Workshop New Approaches in Textile Archaeology, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK, 11 March 2014
2010 European Exploratory Workshop Archaeology of Sheep Domestication: New Approaches, 16-19 May 2010 (principal organiser)
2010 16th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Session Threads to the past: novel methods for investigation of archaeological textiles and other organic materials, The Hague, Netherlands, 1 September 2010 (principal organiser)
2009 DressID Study Group E international workshop, Hallstatt, Austria (principal organiser)
2008 International symposium Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-22 October 2008 (principal organiser)
2008 10th North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-17 May 2008 (principal organiser)
2008 2nd general meeting of DressID project, Copenhagen, Denmark (co-organiser)
2007 International Symposium Unveiling Etruscan Ritual, Philadelphia, USA, 16 November 2007 (principal organiser)
2007 International conference Textiles in Context, Centre for Textile Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-12 January 2007 (principal organiser)
2006 107th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, colloquium Archaeological Textiles: New Approaches to Study and Conservation, Montréal, Canada, 6 January 2006 (principal organiser)
2006 First CTR Workshop Tools and Textiles - Texts and Contexts, Athens, Greece, January
1999 Second Graduate Student Symposium Decline: All Good Things Must Come to an End?, Bryn Mawr College, USA (co-organiser)
1997 First Graduate Student Symposium All for One and One for All: Reconstructing Identity in the Ancient World, Bryn Mawr College, USA (co-organiser)
Editorial work
2008-2014 Corresponding editor of Archaeological Textiles Review (www.atnfriends.com)
2006-2012 Co-editor of Ancient Textiles Series (Centre for Textile Research and Oxbow Books)
2008 Contributor and editor for the website of the prehistoric section of the National Museum of Denmark http://oldtiden.natmus.dk
Refereeing/Peer review activities
2020-present Nature
2020-present Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
2019-present Museion
2018-present World Archaeology
2017-present North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles series
2017-present Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
2017-present European Research Council (CoG)
2016-present Purpureae Vestes symposium series
2016-present Journal of Irish Archaeology
2016-present Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization (Poland)
2016-present Rivista Archeologia (Italy)
2015-present Antiquity
2014-present Accordia Research Papers
2014-present Archaeological Textiles Review
2013-present Pasold Research Fund (UK)
2013-present Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
2012-present Origini; Prehistory and Protohistory of Ancient Civilizations (Italy)
2011-present American Journal of Archaeology
2011-present The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin
2010-present Journal of Archaeological Science
2010-present Archaeometry
2010-2012 European Science Foundation
Professional development
2011 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Level A
2010 Lab Safety Training
2009 Managing a research project
2009 Roberts Research Development Portfolio
2009 Managing your Professional Life
2009 Research Grants Administration - Finding Funding to Final Report
Scientific board membership
2020-present Project “Galloway Hoard”, University of Glasgow, UK
2020-present Research network “Textile Archaeology in Egypt in Sudan”, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2020-present Project Lanifica, University of Padua, Italy
2019-Present L'Association Française pour l'étude de l'âge du Fer (AFEAF) 2021 colloquium
2017-present Dictionary of Techniques in Antiquity (DicTA)
2014-present North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT)
2014-present Purpureae Vestes Symposium
2014-present Archaeological Textiles Review (ATR)
2013-present Museo Archeologico Virtuale di Narce (MAVNA)
Institutional reponsibilities
2014-2019 Member of Regent House, University of Cambridge, UK
2017-2018 Director of Studies in Archaeology, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK
2015-2017 Postdoc Representative, Research Committee, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
2010-2011 Postdoc Representative, Publications Committee, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Memberships in professional organisations and societies
2018-present Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
2012-present Associate, The Higher Education Academy
2010-present Member, Accordia Institute
2010-2015 Member, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
2008-2011 Member, International Council of Museums (ICOM)
2006-present Member, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
2002-2010 Member, Istituto degli Studi Etruschi ed Italici (U.S. Section)
1998-2010 Member, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Other memberships
2010-present Early Textiles Study Group (2018-2019 – ordinary committee member)
2005-present North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (since 2014 – scientific board member)
2002-present Purpureae Vestes Symposium (since 2014 – scientific board member)
Languages
Fluent: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian
Intermediate knowledge: German, French, Danish
Reading knowledge: Ancient Greek, Latin
Web sites
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Margarita_Gleba
https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/MargaritaGleba
Public outreach (selection)
2019 BBC World Forum radio show “The Scythians Masters of the Steppe” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyp5r
2017 Nova documentary “Secrets of the Sky Tombs”
2016 BBC Radio program “Naked Scientists”