CURRICULUM VITAE
Mgr. Petra Janouchová
doctoral candidate of Ancient History, Institute of Greek and
Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
e-mail: petra.janouchova@gmail.com
https://cuni.academia.edu/PetraJanouchova
Education:
Charles University, Prague (2005 - 2011, Master, dual degree): Classical Archaeology;
Ancient Greek; MA thesis: The First and the Second Athenian League: A Comparison
Charles University, Prague (2011 - present; doctoral studies): Ancient history; thesis title
Hellenisation of Ancient Thrace based on epigraphical evidence
Academic career and fieldwork:
 University of Michigan and University of Minnesota Archaeological Project at Tel-Kedesh,
Israel: June - July 2006 directed by Sharon Herbert and Andrea Berlin: assistant of
supervisor for CB 1.6 trench, excavation documentation, pottery processing and analysis.
 Archaeological Institute of Brno (AV CR Brno): Roman auxiliary camp at Musov, Czech
Republic. August 2006. Project directed by Dr. B. Komoroczy and Professor Tejral of AV CR
Brno. Excavation of Germanic settlement paterns.
 Collaborative preliminary project between the University of New South Wales, Sofia
University and the Museum of Yambol at the site of Kabyle, Bulgaria; June 2007. Team
assistant. Land evaluation, remote sensing, and preliminary survey, data collection, data
entry into a MS Access database.
 Collaborative project between the University of New South Wales and the Dutch Institute
at Rome in Archaeological Survey and Remote Sensing at the site of L’Amastuola in Apulia,
Italy; July 2007; Team assistant. Land evaluation, remote sensing, data collection, data
entry into a MS Access database, Geomatica Freeview software for remote sensing.
 KAS 2008, Kabyle Archaeological Survey Project in Bulgaria; February - March 2008;
Surface Survey pilot project organized by dr. Shawn Ross of UNSW and Adela Sobotkova
of University of Michigan jointly with Sofia University as a test study for the evaluation of
survey methodology. Responsibilities: assistant of survey team leader, documentation,
methodology.
 TRAP 2009, Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project, Collaborative project between the
University of New South Wales, Bulgarian Archaeological Institute and Kazanlak Regional
Museum, Kazanlak, Bulgaria. March 2009. Systematical field survey and spatial analysis,
remote sensing in Seuthopolis region, around Koprinka dam. Assistant of team leader,
data entry, work with Arc PAD, Arc GIS (georeferencing, data entry into GIS database),
coordinating of team members.
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 The Fourth International Congress On Black Sea Antiquities, Istanbul, 14 -18 September
2010.
 TRAP 2010, February/March 2010, Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Systematical field survey and
spatial analysis, remote sensing in Seuthopolis region, around Koprinka reservoir.
Assistant of team leader, data entry, work with Arc PAD, Arc GIS (georeferencing, data
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entry into GIS database), GIS training, coordinating of team members, documentation,
methodology.
THYESPA 2010, six weeks in June/July. Intensive language course of modern Greek in
Greece, Athens, Kapodistrian University of Athens. Achieved level B2 – intermediate.
Intensive language course, everyday lectures about Greek history, culture and literature.
British School at Athens, 2011 Postgraduate Training Course in Epigraphy, 27th June-10th
July; methology and theory of epigraphical work; practical training, making sqeezes,
making own edition of authentical text, persentation of own work. Trips around Attica,
lectures in epigraphy (R. Pitt, G. Oliver, S. Lambert, M. Langdon et al.)
International conference Classics Colloquium Europaeum, 21st – 23rd October, Helsinki,
Finland. Paper presented: Thracians in Athens: Friends or Strangers?
TRAP 2011, October-December 2011, Kazanlak Bulgaria, Systematical field survey and
spatial analysis, remote sensing in Seuthopolis region, around Koprinka dam. Independent
team leader, data entry supervisor, Arc PAD, Arc GIS (data entry into GIS database, data
processing), GIS training, field-school assistant, coordinating of team members,
documentation, data processing and streamlining, pottery and finds processing (pottery
analysis, total pick up, drawing). Ground control/legacy data verification for Burial
Mounds Project, joint project of TRAP (lead by Mgr. Barbora Weissova, Charles University,
Prague).
Study scholarship UNSW, Sydney, Australia, February – May 2012. Part-time tutorial
teaching, ARTS2283 Classical Greece; 4 tutorials; lectures presented for ARTS2283:
Tyranny in Corint and reforms of classical Sparta (6 April 2012), Introduction into
epigraphy, Three-bar sigma controversy (26 April 2012). Independent research in library
of UNSW, library of University of Sydney.
International Epigraphy Conference: XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae
et Latinae: Publicum - Monumentum - Textus, Berlin, 27-31 August 2012, poster „Greek
Inscriptions in Ancient Thrace: Hellenization and Its Spatial Extent.“
Preliminary field survey of ancient city of Troizen, Greece, September – October 2012,
directed by Shawn Ross and Adela Sobotkova, UNSW. Report on epigraphy of Troizen.
5th International Symposium “Settlement Life in Ancient Thrace“, Yambol, 7 – 9
November 2012, paper: „Dodoparon Apollo sanctuary: typical or exceptional?“
Laetae Segetes III, International PhD Student Conference, Masaryk University, Brno
„Thracian Goddess Bendis in Athens and in Thrace“, 13-16th November 2012
Postgraduate conference Perspectives of Classical Arcaheology (Perspektivy klasické
archeologie) I, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Prague, paper “Thracian Nymphs as
presented by Greek inscriptions“ 11-12 December 2012.
Study scholarship UNSW, Sydney, Australia, February – June 2013. Tutorial teaching,
ARTS2283 Classical Greece; 4 tutorials; lectures presented for ARTS2283, and ARTS1270.
Independent research in library of UNSW, library of University of Sydney.
Summer school of interdisciplinary studies, University of Lancaster, workshop GIS in
Humanities, Ian Gregory and Patricia Murrieta-Flores, 14 - 19 July 2013,
Fifth International Congress On Black Sea Antiquities The Danubian Lands between the
Black, Aegean and Adriatic Seas, (7th Century BC-10th Century AD), (Belgrade - 17-21
September 2013), poster “The identity and self-identification on Greek inscriptions from
Thrace”
Zagora Remote Sensing project, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales,
Zagora, Andros, Greece, 23 Sept - 8 Oct 2013, with Dr. Adela Sobotkova from UNSW.
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Postgraduate conference Perspectives of Classical Archaeology (Perspektivy klasické
archeologie) II, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Prague, poster with Mgr. Barbora
Weissova “Speaking Mounds: Characteristics of Inscribed Objects in Burial Mounds in
Selected Areas of Thrace“ 16-17 December 2013.
Workshop "Current Practices and New Directions in Digital Epigraphy", EAGLE, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 19- 20 Feb 2014
Archaeological project SEP: Stroyno Excavation Project, Yambol region, Bulgaria, 13 June
– 13 July 2014, GAUK 2086214/2014, Mgr. Petra Tušlová, Charles University
Summer school of Bulgarian language, Univ. of St. Klimenta Ochridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, 13
Jul - 2 Aug 2014
Summer school of Greek culture and literature, European Culture Centre of Delphi,
Greece, 2 - 13 Aug 2014
Paper "Χαῖρε, παροδεῖτα: eloquent identity markers of death in Roman Thrace" at the
conference Imperialism and Identities at the Edges of the Roman World II, Petnitsa,
Serbia, 18 - 21 Sept 2014
Archaeological project Yambol region 2014, documentation of archaeological sites,
survey. 30 Sep – 17 Oct 2014, GAUK 626314/2014, Mgr. B. Weissová, Charles University
Specialization:
 Greek Epigraphy, mostly epigraphy in the area of the ancient Thrace; Athenian Empire
and later periods. Field survey, ArcGIS and spatial analysis. Databases.
 Hellenization of the periphery of Greek world in Antiquity, hybridization, middle gound
theory, identity
Publications:
 “The Cult of Bendis in Athens and Thrace“. Graeco-Latina Brunensia, 18/1, 2013, 95-106.
 “Thrácké Nymfy a řecké nápisy: možné využití GIS v epigrafice“. Auriga 2013, LVI, 5-26.
 “Ourios Heliopolitanus. Inscription kept in the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles
University, Studia Hercynia XVII/2, 2014, 41-50.
 “Database of Greek inscriptions ‘Hellenisation of Ancient Thrace’: a final report on
investigations during 2013-2014”. Studia Hercynia XVIII, 2015, forthcoming.
 “The Ancestral Apollo Cult In Ancient Thrace: A Result Of Internal Colonisation?“. Ancient
West & East 14, 2015, forthcoming.
 “Zagora 2013 Satellite Remote Sensing Project”, Adéla Sobotková, Petra Janouchová,
forthcoming
 "Eloquent Burials. Interconnectedness between Burial Mounds and Epigraphic Evidence in
Ancient Thrace", together with B. Weissova, forthcoming
Grants and stipends:
GAUK 546813/2013: Graeco-Thracian society in the light of epigraphic evidence. Conducted
in 2013-2014, main researcher.
GAUK 626314/2014, main researcher Mgr. B. Weissová, FFUK, researcher
GAUK 2086214/2014, main researcher Mgr. Petra Tušlová, FFUK, researcher
Languages:
Czech (native), English (C1/2), French (B1/2), Modern Greek (B2), Bulgarian (A2), German
(A1), Ancient Greek (reading knowledge), Latin (reading knowledge)
References:
PhDr. Jan Souček, CSc., Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Charles University, Prague,
advisor of dissertation project, (jan.soucek@ff.cuni.cz)
Adela Sobotkova, PhD., head of the TRAP project, (adela@fedarch.org)
Shawn A. Ross, PhD., head of the TRAP project, (shawn@fedarch.org)
Prof. PhDr. Jan Bouzek, DrSc., Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague
(jan.bouzek@ff.cuni.cz)