Eleni graduated with a B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 2014 and earned her M.A. in Classical Studies from Columbia University in 2017. Her undergraduate Senior Thesis examined the reuse of Bronze Age burials and architectural structures in Athens and Attica in the Archaic and Classical periods and her Master’s thesis was titled, Growing Up in Attica: The Iconography of Childhood Rites of Passage on Attic Vases and Votive Reliefs of the Archaic and Classical Periods.
Eleni has interned at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (2011 and 2013) and at the Brooklyn Museum (2015). She has excavated at Mygdalia Hill, Patras (2011), at Gournia, Crete (2012), Morgantina, Sicily (2014), and Onchestos, Thebes (2016, 2017) with Dr. Ioannis Mylonopoulos.
Upon graduating from Columbia University, Eleni worked as the Assistant Registrar at Kasmin Gallery where she was responsible for managing the collection and organizing local and international fine art shipments.
She currently works as the Steinmetz Family Foundation Museum Fellow at the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth. In addition to helping manage the collection of over 90,000 objects and to process the finds from the ongoing excavations of the American School of Classical Studies, she is responsible for all educational outreach programs. Using objects from the museum’s collection, she creates lesson plans that are free and accessible online for teachers to download and hosts Skype lessons with classrooms around the world in order to teach students about Ancient Corinth and archaeological fieldwork. She also plans special on site programs to encourage local members of the community to visit the museum and the excavation site.