Michael Basil Cosmopoulos is an anthropologically trained archaeologist specializing in Bronze Age state formation, social memory, and Greek mystery cults.  He is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Professor in Greek Studies and Chair of the  Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  He directs the interdisciplinary excavation of the Mycenaean palace at  Iklaina, in Pylos.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Fellow of the  National Academies of Arts and Sciences of Canada (the Royal Society of Canada); a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; a Fellow of the Academy of Science (St. Louis); a Corresponding Member of the Greek Academy of Arts and Sciences; an honorary member of the Archaeological Society at Athens; and a National Geographic Society Explorer. In 2022,  he was named Commander of the Order of Phoenix by the President of Greece.

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