Emanuele Vaccaro

• July 2007: PhD in Archaeology (University of Siena).
• April 2003: Laurea Degree (marks 110/110 cum laude) in "Lettere Moderne" with a focus on Archaeology (University of Siena).
• 1990-1995: High-School in Classical Studies/Liceo Classico (Grosseto).

CAREER

• From September 2017 onwards: Researcher in Classical Archaeology at the University of Trento.
• From February 2014 to February 2020: Certified eligible to be appointed Associate Professor of Archaeology at Italian Universities at the first round of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (Italy).
• August 2016-March 2017: Contract Researcher at the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage (University of Siena) for the European Research Council Project "nEU-Med: Origins of a new economic union (7th-12th centuries): resources, landscapes and political strategies in a Mediterranean region".
• 2014-Present: Field Director for the "Santa Marta Project" in southern Tuscany. The project is run by the University of Siena.
• 2009-Present: Scientific Co-Director, with Penn University, of the "Roman Peasant Project" in southern Tuscany.
• 2009-Present: Scientific Co-Director, with the University of Messina, of the "Philosophiana Project", near the Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina in central Sicily.
• Late May to early June 2016: Co-director of the Summer School in Archaeology held at the early medieval site of Vetricella in southern Tuscany.
• November 2014-June 2016: Contract Archaeologist for the Commercial Archaeology Company G.E.A. (Parma-Italy).
• January-December 2014: Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge).
• October-December 2013: Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge); funding was made available by the Institute itself for a three-month extension of my previous position. Full-time research position.
• October 2011-September 2013: Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Full-time research and teaching position.
• October 2009-September 2011: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (7th Framework Programme) at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Full-time research position.
• March-September 2009: Contract archaeologist for the Butrint Foundation.
• October-November 2008: Contract archaeologist for the Butrint Foundation.
• June 2007-April 2008: Early Career Contract Researcher for the Medieval Landscapes Project, University of Siena. Funded by the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation.
• December 2006-January 2009: Contract Lecturer in History of the Material Production of the Late Antique and Medieval World and Archaeology of Production. University of Siena (branch of Grosseto).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1. UNDERGRADUATE LECTURES

• 2012-2013: Taught an undergraduate course in Late Antique Archaeology. Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge).
• 2011-2012: Lectures on the Fall of the Roman Empire as part of undergraduate Paper I, Part I, Archaeology and Anthropology, section on Empires and political collapse. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Cambridge).
• 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009: Lectures in History of the Material Production of the Late Antique and Medieval World and Archaeology of Production. University of Siena (branch of Grosseto).

2. GRADUATE LECTURES

• 2010-2011; 2011-2012: Taught graduate courses in Roman and late antique pottery. Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge).
• 2005: Lectures on Archaeological Field Survey at the "14^th Summer School in Archaeology: Aerial Surveys and Oblique Photographs", Grosseto-Siena (European Landscapes: Past and Future. Project funded by the EU, Culture 2000 and the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation).
• 2004-2005; 2005-2006: Demonstrator in Landscape archaeology: Methods and Techniques and in Roman and late antique pottery as part of the MA in "Archaeology and IT: Urban and Landscape Archaeologies". University of Siena.

3. ONE-TO-ONE  UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE SUPERVISION

• 2011-2012: Directed readings in Byzantine Archaeology (MPhil in Archaeology, University of Cambridge).
• 2011-2012: Supervisor of an MPhil student in Archaeology (University of Cambridge).
• 2009-2010: Supervisor of two undergraduate theses at the University of Siena: one focusing on an archaeological and anthropological study of Roman peasants and one on the study of the Roman and medieval ceramics from the rural parish church at Pava (Siena, Italy).
• 2004: Supervisor of an MA thesis as part of the MA in "Archaeology and IT: Urban and Landscape Archaeologies" (University of Siena).

4. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TRAINING

• 2009 - present: I trained American, British and Italian students in methods and techniques of field survey and excavation and in the study of Roman and medieval pottery in my field projects in Italy. Training also included on-site seminars and directed lab activities. Summer Schools were organized in collaboration with the American University of Rome and the Universities of Cambridge, Pennsylvania and Siena.

5. INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS (SELECTION FROM 2009 ONWARDS)

• 29 November 2016 (Pisa, Italy): Conclusive lecture at the Seminar Series "The transition from Antiquity to the Middle-Ages in the central and eastern Mediterranean" held at the University of Pisa. Title of the individual talk: Late antique peasants in Tuscany.
• 28-29 January 2014 (Messina, Italy): Invited lecture at the Seminar Series "Landscape Archaeology. The research projects of DiCAM between Sicily and Magna Grecia". Title of the individual lecture: Philosophiana and its hinterland: a global landscape archaeology project in central Sicily.
• February 2013 (Newcastle, UK): Invited seminar at the Archaeology Seminars, University of Newcastle. Seminar title: Philosophiana/Sofiana in central Sicily from the Roman period to the Arab conquest: settlement and economy. Seasons 2009-2012.
• October 2012 (Cambridge, UK): Invited inaugural seminar at the Medieval Archaeology Seminars, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Seminar title: Sicily in the eighth and ninth centuries: a case of economic continuity in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods.
• November 2011 (Cambridge, UK): Invited seminar. D-Caucus Seminars, Archaeology (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge). Seminar title: New light on the Roman peasants: fresh evidence from the Roman Peasant Project (Cinigiano, Tuscany).
• March 2011 (Sheffield, UK): Invited lecture. Lunchtime lectures (University of Sheffield). Lecture title: The Philosophiana-Sofiana project and inland Sicily: regional economy and settlement patterns in the 1st millennium AD.
• March 2011 (Norwich, UK): Invited lecture. World Art Research Seminars (University of East Anglia). Lecture title: The Philosophiana-Sofiana project and inland Sicily: regional economy and settlement patterns in the 1st millennium AD.
• November 2010 (Philadelphia, USA): Invited lecture. AAMW lunch seminars. Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Lecture title: Between East and West: Philosophiana-Sofiana and Sicily in the longue durée.
• November 2009 (Cambridge, UK): Lecture at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Title of the lecture: Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Tuscany: An Overview of a Sample Territory in the Grosseto Province (200-1200 AD).

• Archaeology of Roman and early medieval landscapes in the western Mediterranean with a particular focus on the Italian peninsula and Sicily.
• Roman to early medieval Mediterranean trade.
• Roman, late antique and early medieval Mediterranean pottery.
• Roman and late antique architecture.
• Methods and techniques of archaeological research; GIS analysis.

CURRENT FIELD AND LABORATORY PROJECTS

• 2014 to present: Architecture and material culture of the villa and mansio at Santa Marta (Cinigiano-GR, southern Tuscany). As one of the project directors, my research focuses on the study of the architectural and functional changes occurred at the Roman villa and mansio of Santa Marta between the 1st BC and the 7th AD as well as on ceramic supply and consumption in the same period.
• 2009 to present: Philosophiana and the economic complexity of central Sicily in the Roman and Byzantine periods. I have co-directed the Philosophiana Project since its beginning in 2009. In this project I look at the architectural and economic changes of the urban-style settlement of Philosophiana from its foundation in the Augustan age until the Byzantine period, trying to understand the reasons of its long lasting survival and economic prosperity. In addition, putting together the data from open-area excavation at Philosophiana and field survey in its hinterland with paleobotanic and zooarchaeological works, I analyse the impact of human activities on the cultural landscape in the longue durée.
• 2009 to present: Roman peasants, pottery and diet. Since 2009 I have co-directed the Roman Peasant Project in southern Tuscany focusing particularly on the study of the economic connections that the Roman to late antique rural communities engaged with local, regional and Mediterranean markets. Moreover, by combining the ceramic and faunal datasets, I look at changes in diet and culinary habits between the 2nd BC and 5th c. AD in inland southern Tuscany. Currently, my colleagues and I are preparing a major monograph on the results of the Roman Peasant Project.
• 2016 to present: Long-distance trade in the late Roman and early medieval Tyrrhenian Sea. I run this study in the context of the ERC major research grant awarded to the University of Siena "nEU-Med" Project. By using both published and unpublished ceramic evidence from coastal sites, sea-ports and shipwrecks I reconstruct changes in maritime trade and coastal redistribution along the Tyrrhenian Sea between the 4th and 9th c. AD.

• 2017: Anonymous referee for the BAR (British Archaeological Reports International Series).
• 2016-2017: Anonymous referee for Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (peer-reviewed journal).
• 2016-2017: Anonymous referee for the Journal of Quaternary Science (peer-reviewed journal).
• 2011-2015: Anonymous referee for Archeologia Medievale (peer-reviewed journal).
• 2013 to present: Committee member and anonymous referee for the Late Antique Archaeology Series (peer-reviewed journal).
• 2012-2013: Member of the D-Caucus Seminar, Archaeology (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge).
• 2009: Alumnus of the University of Cambridge.
• 2009-2013: Affiliation to Wolfson College (University of Cambridge).

MAJOR INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2011-2013:  Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Full-time research and teaching position. My main duties were to carry out a comparative archaeological study of three areas of Italy (southern Tuscany, central Sicily and the north-western Adriatic) in the "long" Late Antiquity and to deliver lectures and supervisions on Roman and late antique archaeology and material culture.
• 2009-2011: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (7th Framework Programme) at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Full-time research position. My main duties were to undertake a comparative study of settlement and economic patterns in southern Tuscany and central Sicily in the first millennium AD and to deliver lectures on Roman material culture.

OTHER INDIVIDUAL GRANTS

• September 2011-May 2012: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Penn University). Declined.

PROJECT GRANTS

• 2013: Cambridge Humanities Grant (University of Cambridge) for lab analysis related to my archaeological fieldwork in central Sicily: £8,690.00.
• 2012-2013: British Academy Small Research Grant for the project: "Land estate and economies in Late Antiquity: the Philosophiana Project (central Sicily)": £7,500.00.
• 2013: Funds to support field work in Sicily. Funding bodies: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge): £5,000.00; Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge): £2,500.00.
• 2012: Funds to support field work in Sicily and Tuscany and involve Cambridge students in my projects. Funding bodies: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge): £5,000.00; Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge): £2,900.00.
• 2011: Funds to support field work in Sicily and Tuscany and involve Cambridge students in my projects. Funding bodies: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge): £5,000.00; Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge): £3,800.00.
• 2010: Funds to carry out minero-petrographic and residue analysis of the late Roman and early medieval ceramics from my current projects and involve students from the University of Cambridge in my field work. Funding bodies: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge): £5,500.00; Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge): £2,500.00.

PARTICIPATION AT CONFERENCES AS SPEAKER (SELECTION FROM 2008 ONWARDS; *INVITED SPEAKER)

• 18-20 February 2016 (Munich, Germany):  *International Conference "Theoderich der Große und das gotische Königreich in Italien" (Theoderic the Great and the Gothic Kingdom in Italy), held at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. Title of the individual paper: Landscapes and Townscapes in Sicily: AD 400-600.
• 10-11 December 2015 (Prague, Czech Republic): * International Conference PeKla 4 (Perspectives in Classical Archaeology) held at the  Charles University di Prague. Invited as key-note speaker and chair of one session. Title of the individual paper: Roman rural non-elites of central Italy and archaeological visibility: new evidence from the Roman Peasant Project.
• 11 November 2015 (Rome, Italy): *AIAC (International Association of Classical Archaeology) meeting held at the German Institute of Archaeology in Rome. Invited as the meeting chair. Title of the meeting: Reading the territory: comparing methods, data and interpretative models.
• 13-14 November 2013 (Grosseto, Italy): *National Conference: "Maritima Regio. Archeologia dei paesaggi romani dalle Colline Metallifere al fiume Fiora". Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d'Arte della Maremma. Title of the individual paper: Roman peasants and ceramic production: the Italic Sigillata from Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano).
• 28-29 November 2013 (Rome, Italy): *International Conference: "Rural Communities in a Globalizing Economy: New Pespectives on the Economic Integration of Roman Italy". Royal Dutch Institute in Rome. Title of the individual paper: Italic sigillata production and trade in the countryside of central Italy: new data from the "Excavating the Roman Peasant Project".
• 11-12 October 2013 (Brussels, Belgium): *1st International Colloquium part of the research project "Changing Landscapes (200-1200): Western Europe and the Mediterranean". Title of the individual paper: Changing landscapes of central Sicily (AD 200-900): methodological approaches and results of the Philosophiana project.
• 5-7 October 2012 (Spoleto, Italy): *International Conference: "The Forms of Crisis. Ceramic Production and Trade in Central Italy Between the Romans and the Lombards (3rd-mid 8th c. AD)". Title of the individual paper: Ceramic Production and Trade in Tuscany (3rd-mid 8th c. AD): new evidence from the south-west.
• 10-11 November 2011 (Copenhagen, Denmark): *"AVADIN workshop on artefact variability, assemblage differentiation and identity negotiation. Code-switching in material culture", held at the University of Copenhagen. Title of the individual paper: Pottery for the Roman Peasants: patterns of production, trade and consumption.
• 17 September 2011 (Cinigiano, Italy): *International Conference "The Archaeology of Wine". Title of the paper (in collaboration with Kim Bowes and Mariaelena Ghisleni): Cinigiano and the Roman peasants: the first three seasons of the Excavating the Roman Peasant Project.
• 14-17 April 2011 (Newcastle, UK): "TRAC 2011 (Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference)", University of Newcastle. Session: Identity Studies: theory and the methodological challenges. Title of the individual paper: Pottery for the Roman Peasants: patterns of persistence and change in southern Tuscany.
• 7-10 April 2011 (Thessaloniki, Grece): LRCW 4 (Late Roman Coarse Ware Conference), Thessaloniki. "4^th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Ware, Cooking Ware and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry". Title of the individual paper: Late Roman pottery in southern Tuscany: a comparison between coastal and inland areas.
• 24-27 May 2010 (Cambridge, UK): *Laurence Seminar: "Archaeological Survey and the City". Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge). Title of the individual paper: Infra-site survey and changing towns: the case study of Philosophiana in central Sicily.
• 12-13 March 2010 (London, UK): *Late Antique Archaeology 2010 Conference: "Local Economies? Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity AD 300-600". Title of the individual paper: The Interior of Sicily.
• 24-26 September 2008 (Grosseto, Italy): *National Conference: "Geography of Settlement". Title of the paper (in collaboration with Stefano Campana, Mariaelena Ghisleni and Matteo Sordini): Settlement patterns along the Ombrone valley (southern Tuscany) during the 1st millennium AD.
• 7-10 July 2008 (Leeds, UK): "International Medieval Congress". University of Leeds. Title of the individual paper: Long Term patterns of Change: the Rural Settlement in a Coastal Sample Area in Southern Tuscany: AD 300-1200. Session 526.