Roman Stoyanov

2019–2020: Getty Foundation grant for the program “Beyond the North Aegean: Architectural Interaction between the Northern Greek, Macedonian, Thracian and Pontic Regions in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods” (Emory University, USA)

2011: grant of The Turkish and Black Sea Scolars' Fund British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (BIAA Ankara, Turkey)
2007–2008:  grant from the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koch University (RCAC Istanbul, Turkey).

2012-2015: Field Researcher, Participant researcher, excavation of Assos, the expedition of Onsekizmart University, Canakkale.

2009-2010: Field Director, rescue excavations in St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg expedition, Institute for the history of material culture RAS.

2008: Field Researcher, excavations of Miletos, expedition of Ruhr University of Bohum.

2005-2007: Field Rresearcher, excavations at the chora of Acra in the eastern Crimea, Ancient complex archaeological expedition of State Hermitage museum.

2005: Field Researcher, excavation of Olbia. Olbian expedition, Institute of archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

2004-2006: Co-director, Bosporus expedition, Institute for the history of material culture RAS. Exavation of Portmeus in the eastern Crimea.

2004: Co-director, excavation at the settlement Balka Bermana at the chora of Tauric Chersonesos. National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos

2002-2004: Field Director, Bosporus expedition, Institute for the history of material culture RAS, the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Munster University. Rescue excavations at Taman peninsula.

1993-2004: Archaeological research in various ancient Greek cites including Olbia, Berezan and other ancient settlements of the Nothern Black Sea region.

BEYOND THE NORTHERN AEGEAN: Architectural Interactions across Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Pontic Regions in the late Classical and Hellenistic Periods. A Connecting Art Histories Program, Sponsored by the Getty Foundation.

Collective Report on the First Travel Seminar, May 26-June 15, 2019
The travel seminar, Beyond the Northern Aegean, brings together graduate students and scholars from Bulgaria, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States in the investigation of ancient Greek, Roman, and Thracian architecture in Thrace and the Black Sea littoral, regions that offer an excellent opportunity to examine the creative dissemination, appropriation, and adaptation of architectural ideas across a wide range of ethnic groups and geographic circumstances.
The team of scholars possess an extraordinary and highly complementary range of
expertise that has made each day as rich and varied as the landscape, monuments, and cultures we investigated. Key discussions centered around the emergence, dissemination, disjunction and confrontation of architectural forms (in function, form, and ornamentation), technologies of construction, use of materials, furnishings and interior painting, stratigraphically datable material, cultural contexts, and historical geography. We examined urban centers, sacred environments, monumental tombs and funerary reliefs, and fortified manor houses. Although our emphasis has been on Hellenistic and early Imperial architecture, we were also keen to understand the early history of settlements and in their later transformation or abandonment in the Byzantine period. Not one tomb, temple, buchrania or bukefalia, Ionic capital, marble door, Thracian rider, or Thasian transport amphora from Hagios Athanasios to Sofia escaped the fond scrutiny of this group.

The seminar in the quarries at Aliki, Thasos.