Alessandro Sebastiani

PhD

Alessandro Sebastiani.

Alessandro Sebastiani

PhD

Alessandro Sebastiani

PhD

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

Roman archaeology of the Mediterranean; Roman economy; Roman religion; Roman to early medieval countryside; Roman to early medieval cities; landscape archaeology; medieval archaeology; medieval pottery; GIS and IT sciences applied to archaeology

Education

  • PhD, Archaeology, University of Siena, Italy, 2008
  • MA, Archaeology, University of Siena, Italy, 2005
  • BA, Late Antique and Medieval Settlements, University of Siena, Italy

Selected Publications

 

Books

Sebastiani A. 2022. Adriano. L’Imperatore Buono, Mondadori Editore, Milan. ISSN: 8143-184-45

Sebastiani A. and Megale C. (eds), 2021. Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria. Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout. ISBN: 978-2-503-59139-1

Sebastiani A., Chirico E., Colombini M. and Cygielman M. (eds) 2015. Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C. –550 d.C.). Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeopress Roman Archaeology series, 3; ISBN: 978-1-78491-052-5

Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals

Sebastiani A. (ed) 2020, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in a Digitalized World: Methods and Practices, Heritage Journal, January 2021

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/heritage/special_issues/digitalized_heritage

Sebastiani A., Chavarria A. (ed) 2016, Recycling and Reuse in the Middle Ages, European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies, Volume 6

http://www.postclassical.it/PCA_Vol.6.html

Papers in peer-reviewed journals

Fabbri A., Sebastiani A., and Maggiani A., 2022. Ager Saenenis vel Rusellanus. Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico-GR). Studi Etruschi LXXXIV: 242-247.

Aniceti A., U. Albarella and Sebastiani A., 2021. The Faunal Assemblage from the manufacturing district at Spolverino: from the Roman Imperial Period to Late Antiquity. Archaeofauna, 30: 163-187.

Sebastiani A. 2021. Digital Artifacts and Landscapes: Experimenting with Placemaking at the Impero Project, Heritage Journal, Special Issue: Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in a Digitalized World: Methods and Practices, Heritage 4, 1: 281-308.

Sebastiani A., Vanni E., M. Brando, E. Woldeyohannes and M. McCabe III. 2020. The third archaeological season at Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico – Grosseto), in Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-491.pdf

Sebastiani A., Hobart M. 2020, Scavi nella Tenuta di Monteverdi (Civitella Paganico – GR). I siti di Podere Cannicci e Castellaraccio. Notizie dei Cavi e degli Scavi, Bollettino di Archeologia, X, 3-4: 17-29.

Sebastiani A., Vanni E., G. Morelli, Woldeyohannes E. and M. Hobart, (2019). The second archaeological season at Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico – Grosseto), in Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2019-451.pdf

Sebastiani A., Fabbri F., Trotta V. and E. Vanni 2018. The first archaeological season at Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico – Grosseto), in Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2018-413.pdf

Sebastiani A. and Derrick T. 2016. Note on the glass workshops and glass assemblage from Spolverino (Alberese - GR). Journal of Glass Studies 58: 279-286.

Sebastiani A. 2016. New data for a preliminary understanding of the Roman settlement network in south coastal Tuscany. The Case of Alberese (Grosseto, IT). Res Antiquae, 13: 243-272.

Sebastiani A. 2016. Glass and metal production at Alberese. The workshops and the manufacturing district of Spolverino. European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies, 6: 53-70.

Chapters in peer-reviewed edited books

Sebastiani A. 2021. Due Ambienti Particolari nel Quartiere Industriale Romano di Spolverino (Alberese – IT). In C. Höpken B. Birkenhagen and M. Brüggler, (eds), Roman glass furnaces - contexts, finds and reconstructions in synthesis, Landesdenkmalamt Saarlamd, Saarbrücken: 97-110.

Sebastiani A. 2021. The Riverine Landscape of the Ombrone Valley in the Roman Period: Preliminary Data from Southern Tuscany. In Berns C. and Huy S. (eds), The Impact of Rivers on Ancient Economies. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (Cologne/Bonn – May 22-26, 2018), Propylaeum, Heidelberg: 85-101.

Sebastiani A. 2021. The late Etruscan and Republican Settlement at Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico – GR). In Sebastiani A. and Megale C. (eds). Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria. Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout: 219-235.

Megale C. and Sebastiani A. 2021. Introduction. In Sebastiani A. and Megale C. (eds). Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria. Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout: 19-26.

Sebastiani A. and T. Derrick. 2020. A regional economy of recycling over four centuries at Spolverino (Tuscany) and environs. In C. Duckworth and A. Wilson (eds), Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 359-382.

Sebastiani A. 2019. Presentazione. In F. Fabbri, Votivi anatomici fittili. Uno straordinario fenomeno di religiosità popolare dell’Italia antica, Ante Quem, Bologna: 9-10.

Sebastiani A. 2017. From Villa to Village. Late Roman to Early Medieval Settlement networks in the ager Rusellanus. In J. Moreland, J. Mitchell and B. Leal (eds), Encounters, Excavations, and Argosies. Essays for Richard Hodges Oxford, Archaeopress: 281-290.

Brando M. and Sebastiani A. 2016. Enlightening Diana Umbronensis. The Late Antique lamp assemblage from the Sanctuary at Scoglietto (Alberese – IT) In Proceedings of Roman and Late Antique Lamps: Production and Distribution, contacts of the Mediterranean (2nd February 2015), Zagreb: 107-127.

 

 

Professional Affiliations

  • Centro Studi Città e Territorio, 2017-present
  • European Association of Archaeologists, 2016-present
  • Medieval and Ancient Research Centre University of Sheffield, 2014-present
  • Rome-SPQR Society (AIA), 2012 – present 
  • Archaeological Institute of America, 2011 – present 
  • Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani (SAMI), 2005 – present 
  • Vice-President of the Grosseto Cultura Foundation, 2012 – 2016

Editorial Board Member

  • IANSA – Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in ArchaeologyPeer-Reviewer
  • PCA – European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies (Classified A – ERIH-PLUS), Editor – Issue: 6, 2016.
  • Histara – Les comptes rendus (ISSN 2100-0700), Reviewer
  • Publisher: A.R. British Archaeological Reports Series, Reviewer

Honors and Awards

  • 2022                UUP Individual Development Award
  • 2018 - 2022    UUP Discretionary Award
  • 2012-2014      Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF), European Union

 

Research Projects

  • Interconnected Mobility of People and Economy along the River Ombrone (IMPERO)
  • Alberese Archaeological Project
  • The Crowded Desert Project (UCL Qatar)

Grants

Post-doctoral Fellowship:

  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (IF), European Union, 2012-2014

Research Grants:

  • 2021 RESEARCH GRANT “REVEALING THE UNSEEN IV” – The New York Community Trust
  • 2021 RESEARCH GRANT “DIFFUSED MUSEUM OF THE WALLED CITY OF PAGANICO (CIVITELLA PAGANICO – GR)”
  • 2020-2021 RESEARCH GRANT “EXPERIENCING AUGMENTED REALITY AND OCULUS QUEST AT IMPERO PROJECT” – UB Digital Scholarship Studio and Network (DSSN)
  • 2020-2021 RESEARCH GRANT “THE MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES AT RUSELLAE” -The New York Community Trust
  • 2019-2020 RESEARCH GRANT “IMPERO GOES PUBLIC” - University at Buffalo’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED)
  • 2020 RESEARCH GRANT “REVEALING THE UNSEEN III” - The New York Community Trust
  • 2019 RESEARCH GRANT “REVEALING THE UNSEEN II” – The New York Community Trust     
  • 2018 RESEARCH GRANT “REVEALING THE UNSEEN” – The New York Community Trust

Undergraduate Courses

  • CL100 – Archaeology and Rediscovery of the Ancient World
  • CL100 – Archaeology and Rediscovery of the Ancient World (Online course Spring 2020)
  • CL199 – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  • CL338 – Introduction to Roman Archaeology I
  • CL339 – Introduction to Roman Archaeology II
  • CL341 – Digital and Virtual Cultural Heritage
  • CL341 – Digital and Virtual Cultural Heritage
  • CL440 – Pompeii

Graduate Courses

  • CL540 – Pompeii
  • CL580 – Ancient Mediterranean Ceramics
  • CL580 – Ancient Mediterranean Ceramics (Online course Spring 2020)
  • CL787 – Topics in Classical Archaeology – The Roman Countryside
  • CL787 – Topics in Classical Archaeology – Ideological Use of the Past and Archaeology
  • CL805 – Independent Study