title: Dimitri Nakassis
text: # Dimitri Nakassis
  
  Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) is an American classicist and archaeologist, and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015.
  
  ## Life
  
  He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D.
  
  ## Work
  
  His work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece, in particular the administrative practices of the state. His findings are challenging assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece. Since 2013, he has co-directed a project using Reflectance Transformation Imaging to create detailed 3D images of the Linear B tablets found in the Palace of Nestor.
  
  