Koray Konuk

Koray Konuk holds a tenured position at the CNRS as an Associate Research Professor (CR1). His main interests are in the history of early coins as well as the history and archaeology of Caria, a region of southwest Asia Minor. After studies in Classical archaeology and Political science in Louvain and a doctoral degree in Oxford, he was appointed as a curator of ancient coins at the Fitzwilliam Museum and an invited university lecturer in the faculty of classics of Cambridge university. He has led archaeological field surveys in the Ceramic Gulf in Caria and is currently heading the French mission in Euromos. He has been a visiting scholar in Oxford, Istanbul, and at the American Numismatic Society in NYC. He has launched an internet platform: Historia Numorum Online which aims to record Greek coin types, the current volume being on Carian mints: http://hno.huma-num.fr/. He is a member of the editorial board of the following academic journals: Anatolia Antiqua (Istanbul), Anadolu (Ankara), Philia (Antalya), Arkeoloji ve Sanat Dergisi (Istanbul); Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bordeaux).