Biography of Prof. Dr. Nergis Günsenin

Prof. Dr. Nergis Günsenin

Nergis Günsenin

Nergis Gunsenin graduated from Istanbul University in Classical Archaeology, obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in Byzantine History and Archaeology (under Hélene Ahrweiler and Jean-Pierre Sodini) and in Nautical Archaeology (under Eric Rieth). Her dissertation Byzantine Amphoras (Xth-XIIIth centuries) :

Typology, Production and Circulation based on Turkish Collections is recognized internationally, and the amphoras of these periods -twenty eight types- are named after her (four main type of amphoras).

She has been conducting research of amphora kilns and shipwrecks of the Middle Ages in the Marmara region (Ancient Propontis) since 1991. Owing to her studies, we now have a detailed underwater archaeological map of the Marmara Sea. The results of her research have been presented orally in various international congresses and have been published widely in professional and popular publications.

Gunsenin Type Anphoras

Dr. Gunsenin has been lecturing underwater archaeology at Istanbul University in Underwater Technology Programme since 1991, and has taught Anatolian Civilisations at Bogazici University from 1994 to 1999. She is also the Associate Researcher of French Anatolian Studies in Turkey, Adjunct Prof. of the Institut of Nautical Archaeology (INA), Advisory Editor in, the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (IJNA), and taught as an invited professor at several foreign Universities.

After having participated in many underwater excavations around Europe, she conducted the first Turkish Underwater Excavation, The ÇAMALTI BURNU I shipwreck. Her team members at Çamaltı are now conducting the Yenikapı excavations at the portus Theodosiacus in Istanbul, where she was the University consultant during the years 2006 and 2007 (http://www.yenikapiwrecks.com).

Dr. Günsenin is currently working on the publication of her Çamaltı Burnu I shipwreck excavation.

Map of the Marmara Sea (Propontis)