Professional profile
Archaeologist of the Ancient Near East | Art Historian of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
Specialized in Archaeology and Art history of the ancient Near East.
She is Director of the series Biblioteca di Antichità Cipriote (CNR) and is part of the Scientific Board of Ash-sharq (Bulletin of the Ancient Near East), the Area Studies Advisory Board for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and the Editorial Board of Rivista di Studi Fenici (CNR). She is a member of ASOR, ISMEO; ARWA Core Discussion Group; International Research Group on Memories of Antiquity; Harn (Histories of Archaeology Research Network).
She was and is currently the coordinator of several projects in collaboration with foreign institutions in Europe and beyond (France-CNRS, Spain-MECD, Georgia-SRNSF, Jordan-NCRD). She was a member of several archaeological missions in the Middle East: at Tell Mardikh-Ebla, Tell Tuqan, Tell Mozan (Syria), Kharayeb (Lebanon), and Pyrgos (Cyprus) as a specialist in Early Bronze Age.
She has promoted and coordinates the QaNaTES archaeological projects in Iranian Kurdistan and GrESCAM in Iraqi Kurdistan. She has carried out research stays in the United States, France, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Syria. She has obtained funding from the European Social Fund, MAECI, CNR-MAECI as part of the Baghdad Virtual Museum Project, MUR for PRIN Projects, CNR for the Short Term Mobility Programme, National Endowment for the Humanities, and INSTAP.
She was a scientific expert for MUR and carried out peer review activity for Italian and international academic publishing houses and journals among which Archiv Orientalni and Bollettino di Archeologia; she was co-supervisor and carried out teaching and peer review activity for the Specialization School in Archaeological Heritage and the PhD School in Archaeology (Sapienza).
Author of numerous national and international publications, her research focuses on four main themes concerning the ancient Near East:
- Archaeology of production (production systems and processes);
- Material culture and archaeological materiality;
- Biodiversity in the ancient Near East (BioANE Project);
- Museum collections (narrative and cultural identity).
CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors
- SH6_3 Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations
- SH6_2 Prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of non-literate societies
- SH6_1 Archaeological methods and theory, history of archaeology;
MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector
- STAA-01/E Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
Prehistory and Protohistory Research Group →
Ancient Near East Research Group →
Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group →
