Curriculum vitae

Teaching experiences

2011-2013 teaching fellowship (Islamic art) at the University of Edinburgh (BA and MA). September 2011 – August 2013.
(Courses taught: Early Islamic Art in Its Late Antique Context; Islamic Art and Medieval Europe: Artistic Exchange and the Circulation of Objects in the Mediterranean, 900-1400; Interactions of Islamic and Christian Art in the Medieval Islamic World).

Education, Qualifications and Training

Groups of research:
Co-investigator of the research network “Holy places in Islam” (with Dr. Andreas Goerke). Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) (2013-2015).

Member of the group of research “Art Space and Mobility in the Early History of Globalization. The Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent, 400-1650”, sponsored by the Getty Institute and organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florence. Scientific referees: Professor Gerhard Wolf, Dr. Hannah Baader, and Professor Avinoam Shalem. January 2010 – August 2011.

Member of the group of research “The mosaics as a figurative language in the Mediterranean”, sponsored by UNESCO-Oasis. Scientific referee: Professor Ennio Concina (University of Venice). November 2009 – October 2010.

Fellowships:

Gerda Henkel Stiftung – Research Scholarship. May – October, 2014.

Max-Planck postdoctoral fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florence. March 2010 – August 2011.

J. Paul Getty Institute non residential postdoctoral fellowship. June 2008 – May 2009.

Aga Khan postdoctoral fellowship in Islamic Art and Architecture (Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture) at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA). January 2007 – April 2008.

Archeological field experience:

June 2014: excavation campaign on the site of Urbisaglia (MC). Roman and late antique strata. Director of the excavations: Prof. Giovanna Fabrini (University of Macerata).

Affiliations:

March-May 2009: Affiliation to the Fine Arts and Art History Department at the American University of Beirut (sponsors: Prof. Henry Franses and Prof. May Farhat).

Memberships:

Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA). Since 2008.
CISBI, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Balcanici Internazionali, “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice. Since 2007.

PhD:

PhD at “Ca’ Foscari” University in Venice (Oriental Studies). PhD thesis: Late Antiquity and Syro-Umayyad culture: issues and problems of archeology and art history. From 2002 to 2006 (Submitted and approved in March 7, 2006).

BA / MA:

Master of art degree: first-class honours degree at “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice (Faculty of Oriental Languages and Literatures). Subjects studied: Arabic language, Islamic art history, Islamic studies, Byzantine and medieval art history. Degree thesis: Population, urbanization and residential architecture in Syro-Jordanian area between V-VIII century. From 1996 to 2002 (Date of the degree: March 6, 2002).

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