Experience
teaching experience
&2014 - 2017
380 Fillmore Academic Center - Ellicott Complex,
North Campus - Buffalo, NY 14261-0026, USA
Inequality in Antiquity. Tracing the Archaeological Record
The social and political division of communities was a common and complex feature of past civilizations around the world. In many ancient cultures, there were several discrimination strategies: free people versus slaves, age- and gender-based categories, economic concentration and exclusion. As archaeologists, we have to ask how visible such structures of inequality are in the material record of the past. Where they are visible, how do we interpret their meaning for the marginalized communities that they document? So far, no symposium has addressed these diverse aspects of
inequality in a single venue. A wider, interdisciplinary archaeology based approach to these issues should prove especially productive.
We know that in ancient times there were men and women, freemen and slaves, locals and immigrants. We can observe some material residues of their existence in the archaeological record. The central methodological problem is how we can extract fuller meaning from the surviving archaeological residues and relate those meanings to issues of gender, legal and ethnic status, and other categories of potential inequality.
While studies of slavery, gender, and ethnicity are relatively common, the IEMA conference explored them as intersecting areas of study within the larger framework of inequality. It brought together prehistorians, specialists in classical archaeology, and students of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, as well as physical anthropologists; epigraphers; and statisticians.
Many issues arose from the perspective envisaged for this symposium.
Is it possible to develop a general theory of inequality in antiquity? Is it possible to define wide-ranging strategies for the archaeological analysis of that inequality? To what degree are the inequalities and social boundaries culture-specific and how does their emergence relate to growing complexity? To what degree can archaeologists identify and analyze different patterns of inequality.
Additional teaching
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TUTORING AND MENTORING
- 2019-2020 - Supervisor of the BA Thesis by student C. M. Papa, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, «Sapienza» University of Rome, Italy.
- 2018-2020 - Supervisor of the MA Thesis by student A. Cavalli, Department of Humanities, University of Turin, Italy.
- 2018-2019 - Advisor of the BA Thesis by student F. Buscie’, Department of Asian, African, Mediterranean Studies, the Naples Eastern University, Italy.
- 2017-2018 - Supervisor of the BA Thesis by student G. Rapicano, Department of Asian, African, Mediterranean Studies, the Naples Eastern University, Italy.
- 2017-2018 - Advisor of the MA Thesis by student E. Abbondanzieri, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, «Sapienza» University of Rome, Italy.
- 2016-2017 - Supervisor of the BA Thesis by student B. Mongiello, Department of Asian, African, Mediterranean Studies, the Naples Eastern University, Italy.
- 2015-2016 - Advisor of the BA Thesis by student E. Abbondanzieri, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, «Sapienza» University of Rome, Italy.
- 2015-2016 - Advisor of the BA Thesis by student E. Pizzuti, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, «Sapienza» University of Rome, Italy.
- 2015-2016 - Consultant of the PhD Thesis by student A. Mazurek, Department of Classics, The State University of New York SUNY – USA.
- 2015-2016 - Consultant of the PhD Thesis by student F. Tobin, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.
- 2010-2011 - Advisor of the MA Thesis by student M. Sabbatini, Department of Humanities, University of Turin, Italy.
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Lessons in Siena, 2010
- 2010 - Instructor in Etruscan Archaeology
- history, architecture, military landscape.
International Summer School of Marsiliana d'Albegna
Department of Archaeology and Art History
University of Siena
- 2010 - Instructor in Etruscan Archaeology
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Lessons in Turin, 2010
- 2010 - Instructor in Etruscan Archaeology
- architecture, urbanization, urbanisation
Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Historical Landscape
University of Turin
- 2010 - Instructor in Etruscan Archaeology
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Field & Lab Didactics "Veii Project", 2000-2013
VEII PROJECT - UNIVERSITY MAJOR EXCAVATIONS
PROGETTO VEIO - GRANDI SCAVI D'ATENEO (link)
- 2000-2016 - Assistant Field Instructor in Etruscan and Classical Archaeology (methodology, first aid for finds, pottery, architecture, graphical survey);
- 2000-2016 - Laboratory Instructor in Etruscan and Classical Archaeology (restoration, pottery, classification, typology, graphical survey, archive research);
- 2010-2013 - Instructor in Etruscan Archaeology (architecture, landscape, burial customs).
Classic Archaeology (Prof. A. Carandini) and Etruscan Archaeology (prof. G. Bartoloni).
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità (Department of Humanities),
«Sapienza» University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma - ITALY -
Didactics for the general public, 1995-2013
- 1995-2020 - Instructor, Field Instructor, Laboratory Instructor in Prehistory, Etruscan and Classical Archaeology
- methodology, first aid for finds, pottery, architecture, graphical survey, historical background, restoration, pottery, classification, typology, drawing, archive research, landscape patterns, urbanization, architecture, burial customs, Mediterranean networks.
Roman Archaeological Association - Gruppo Archeologico Romano (GAR)
Via Contessa di Bertinoro, 6, 00162 Rome- ITALY
www.gruppoarcheologico.it - 1995-2020 - Instructor, Field Instructor, Laboratory Instructor in Prehistory, Etruscan and Classical Archaeology