Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2025
Committee
Francesca Cozza
Francesca is a PhD student in Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce). Her research project focuses on textile production and consumption in the Fayyum region (Egypt) during the Roman period.
Her academic interests are rooted in textile archaeology and Egyptology, focusing on the processes of textile production, as well as the complex dynamics of their use and reuse in temple and funerary contexts. By integrating a diverse range of sources, including archaeological, iconographic, literary, and papyrological evidence, her work aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of material culture and socio-economic practices in Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Anita Malagrinò Mustica
Anita Malagrinò Mustica is finishing her first year of a PhD in Humanities at the University of Foggia. She is working on a thesis in Classical Philology entitled ‘The School of Isocrates. A philological and historical study'. Her research interests include Greek oratory, the contexts of education in Classical Athens, the manuscript tradition and the production and circulation of books and documents in the Ancient World.
Lorenzo Serino
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Lorenzo is a second year Phd Student in Cultural Heritage at the Università del Molise, where he is developing a project in Roman Samnium and élite relations between the Samnites and the Romans in the II and I cen. BCE. His main interests are Roman History, especially during the last centuries of the Republic, and the relations between Rome and Italian populations. He is a graduate student in Roman Epigraphy at the Università di Bologna and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University and the University of Manchester.
Donato Sitaro
Donato Sitaro is an early career researcher at the centre “Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter” at the University of Tübingen where he is working on the presence of Britons in northern Galicia between fifth and seventh century. He previously got his PhD from the University of Naples “Federico II” with a thesis on the definition of Western British ethnic identity between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. His research interests include late antique hagiography, discourses of Romanness, cultural and trade contacts in the Migration Period along the Atlantic seaboard and Nineteenth-century Historiography.