Lutgarde Vandeput is the director of the

British Institute at Ankara The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), formerly British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, is a research institute that supports, promotes, and publishes research into the humanities and social sciences of Turkey and the Black Sea region. The ...

Education and early career

Vandeput studied classical archaeology at the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

with a Masters thesis on "Splijttechnieken in de Oudheid: een kritische statusquaestionis van het onderzoek in het oostelijke deel van de Middellandse Zee." She completed her doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on "The Architectural Decoration at Sagalassos. Local Development within the Framework of Anatolian Architecture. The Imperial Period."

Work

While working on her doctoral thesis, Vandeput became a research assistant with the Belgian National Research Foundation, working on the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project based at

, and continued post doctoral work on the project until 2001 when she became an assistant professor at the Archaeological Institute of the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

. Between 1997-8 Vandeput was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the

. In 2006, Vandeput became the director of the

. As part of her work there she oversees the Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey (SARAT) project. She directed the Pisidia Survey Project 1998-2012, and also worked with the Aspendos Archaeological Project 2008-2016. Based on her work in Pisidia, Vandeput has also worked on the BIAA project "Living Amid the Ruins: Archaeological Sites as Hubs of Sustainable Development for Local Communities in Southwest Turkey." Vandeput sits on the editorial board of the journal

Anatolian Studies ''Anatolian Studies'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history, archaeology, and social sciences of Turkey and the Black Sea region. It was established in 1951 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ...

Honours

Vandeput was awarded an MBE for services to UK/Turkey cultural relations in 2019.

Selected publications

* The British Institute at Ankara: 60 years young ''Anatolian Studies'' 58 (2008), pp. 1-14. *(with Veli Köse) Pisidia Survey Project: Melli 2000 ''Anatolian Studies'' 52 (2002), pp. 145-152. *''The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor: Sagalassos: a case study'' (Leuven, 1997)

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Lutgarde Vandeput
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