Since 1974 she has been professionally linked to the Institute of Archaeology at the Academy of Albanological Studies.[1] In 1994 she held a Visiting Fellowship at the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.[2] Between 1999 and 2007 she was the head of the Department of Antiquities in the Institute of Archaeology at the Academy of Albanological Studies, and from 2008 to 2013 she was Director of the Institute of Archaeology.[1][3][4]
Gjongecaj is also Professor of Numismatics at the University of Tirana and has participated in a number of archaeological expeditions and research projects.[1] She led research on the Hija e Korbit Hoard, an assemblage of 618 silver coins.[5] She has also worked on the Roman coins of Butrint, with Sam Moorhead and Richard Abdy.[6] She has worked on coins from the prehistoric burial tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania.[7]
Thesare me monedha antike të gjetura në Shqipëri (shek. V-I p.Kr) (Tirana, 2015).[10]
Trésors de monnaies antiques trouvés en Albanie (Ve-Ier siècle av. J.-C.), with O. Picard (École française d'Athènes, Athens, 2019).[11]
Articles
(1995). "Le monnayage d'argent d'Égine et le trésor de Hollm (Albanie) 1991", with H. Nicolet-Pierre, in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 119-1. Páxinas 283-338.[12]
(1998). "Le trésor de Dimalla 1973 et le passage du monnayage hellénistique au monnayage impérial à Apollonia d'Illyrie", with O. Picard, in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 122-2. Páxinas 511-527.[13]
(2001). "Apollonia et le monnayage épirote: le trésor de Bakërr", with O. Picard, in Revue Numismatique, 157. Páxinas 323-249.[14]
(2003). "Monnaies d’Apollonia", with O. Picard, in Iliria, 31. Páxinas 259-266.[15]
(2010). "Le monnayage de Phoinikè sous l’empire romain", in Revue Numismatique, 166. Páxinas 383-396.[16]
(1998). Gjongecaj, Shpresa. "Le trésor de Kreshpan (Albanie)." Revue numismatique 6.153, 81-102.[17]