Margarita Gleba is an archaeologist and expert on early textiles and other organic materials.[1]

Gleba holds a BS (1997) in biology and art history from Rutgers University, followed by a MA (1999) and PhD (2004) in archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, the latter supervised by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.[2] Her research uses scientific methods in archaeology and focuses on the pre- and protohistory of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean region, in addition to the archaeology of organic materials.[3]

From 2005 to 2009 she was research project manager at Copenhagen University, followed by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the Institute of Archaeology University College London. After that she received a European Research Council Starting Grant (2013-2019), conducted at Cambridge University named 'PROduction and CONsumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE'.[4] In 2019 Gleba was a featured guest in a BBC Radio broadcast focused on the Scythians.[5] In 2020 she was a lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich,[6] before becoming Assistant Professor at the University of Padua in 2021.

Publications

  • Gleba, Margarita. Textile production in pre-Roman Italy, (Ancient textiles series; 4) Oxford [England]: Oxbow Books; Oakville, Connecticut: David Brown Book Company, 2008. ISBN 9781782976059.
  • Gleba, Margarita and Hilary Wills Becker, eds. Votives, places and rituals in Etruscan religion, studies in honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa, Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. ISBN 9789004170452.
  • Gleba, Margarita, and Ulla Mannering, eds. Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to AD 400. Oxford; Oakville: Oxbow Books, 2012. Accessed March 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1djwg.

References

  1. ↑ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-7795 ORCID iD
  2. ↑ https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/1ijd0uu/alma991016488629704921 Textile production in pre-Roman Italy: archaeological evidence (2004)
  3. ↑ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uoc-atr092217.php PUBLIC RELEASE: 22-SEP-2017 Ancient textiles reveal differences in Mediterranean fabrics in the 1st millennium BC
  4. ↑ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/312603 PROduction and CONsumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE
  5. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyp5r BBC World Forum radio show “The Scythians Masters of the Steppe”
  6. ↑ https://www.vfp-archaeologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrb/dr_margarita_gleba/curriculum_vitae/index.html Curriculum Vitae
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