Esther Solomon is Associate Professor of Museology and Curatorial Practices at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. She studied archaeology, museology and social anthropology at the Universities of Ioannina, Florence, Sheffield and London (UCL). She has worked as a museologist and exhibition curator in museums in Greece and abroad and has conducted research published in books, conference proceedings, international and Greek journals and collective volumes, while she has taught museology at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences of the University Ioannina (2011-2025), and applied public history at the postgraduate Program “Public History” of the Hellenic Open University (2018-2020). Since 2018, she has been coordinating the MA program of the University of Ioannina “Exhibition curating: Theoretical and Practical Approaches”.

Her research interests include exhibition curating, public history, museums and community engagement, museum representations of the past, cultural tourism and ethnographic approaches to art and cultural heritage. Her book “Contested Antiquity: Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus” was published by Indiana University Press.

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Email: esolomon@asfa.gr