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

Books

• Fabbri F. and Sebastiani A. (eds), 2025 Sacred Landscapes in Central Italy. Votive Deposits and Sanctuaries (400 BC- 400 AD). Brepols, Turnhout. ISBN: 978-2-503-61366-6
• Sebastiani A. 2024. Roma antica e l’ideologia nazionale italiana. Trasformazioni di una città dal Risorgimento al fascismo. Biblioteca di testi e studi. Carocci Editore, Rome. ISBN: 978-88-290-2744-6
• Rao R. and Sebastiani A. (eds), 2023. Archaeological Landscapes of Late Antique and Early Medieval Tuscia (AD 400-1000). Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout. ISBN: 978-2-503-60499-2
• Sebastiani A. 2023, Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State. Ideological Placemaking, Archaeology, and Architecture, 1870-1945. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN: 978-10093-54127
• 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

Papers in peer-reviewed journals

• Sebastiani A., Carabia A., Barbafiera C. 2024, The Archaeological Excavations at Castellaraccio di Monteverdi (Civitella Paganico – GR). Report of the 2021-2023 seasons. in Journal of Fasti Online, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2024-589.pdf
• Turkar Y., De S., Adhivarahan C., Mottola L., Sebastiani A., Castelletti D., Dantu K., 2024, Enhancing Archaeological Surveys with In-Sar Imagery and UAV-Based GPR. IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 11454-11456, DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640645
• Sebastiani A., De Pari M., Vanni E., 2024, The Tomb of the Rings and the Tomb of the Linen. New Data for a Late Etruscan Community in the Middle Valley of the Ombrone River. Journal of Etruscan and Italic Studies, 27
• Testolini V., Sebastiani A. and Chirico E., 2023. Roman Bricks Off the Wall. New Data for Understanding Production Centres and Distribution of Building Materials in the ager Rusellanus (Tuscany, Italy), Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 36, 2: 202-225.
• Milanesi C., Vignani R., Scali M., Faleri C., Cresti M., Delle Donne M., Canci A., Friziero M., Sebastiani A. and Seyed Sajjadi S.M., 2023. A Double Burial from Shahr-I Sokhta Necropolis (Iran). Bioarchaeological Investigations and Non-Invasive Biotechnological Studies on Fragments of Human Remains. Archaeological Discovery, 11: 1-15.
• Sebastiani A. 2022. A Late Etruscan Burial at Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico - Grosseto). Journal of Etruscan and Italic Studies, 25, 1-2: 173-197.
• 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. and 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

• Fabbri F. and Sebastiani A., 2025. Introduction. In Fabbri F. and Sebastiani A. (eds).  Sacred Landscapes in Central Italy. Votive Deposits and Sanctuaries (400 BC- 400 AD). Brepols, Turnhout: 19-30.
• Sebastiani A., 2025. Back to Scoglietto. The Sanctuary Area of Diana Umbronensis. In Fabbri F. and Sebastiani A. (eds).  Sacred Landscapes in Central Italy. Votive Deposits and Sanctuaries (400 BC- 400 AD). Brepols, Turnhout: 229-243.
• Turkar Y., Aluckal C., Adhivarahan C., Sebastiani A., Dantu K., 2024, A View-Planning Approach to 3D Reconstructions, in De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (eds) Extended Reality. XR Salento 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15029. Springer, Cham: 340-350. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71710-9_27
• Sebastiani A. and Chirico Elena, 2024. The Riverine Harbour Area of the Roman ager Rusellanus at Spolverino (Alberese – GR). In Urteaga M and Pizzo A. (eds), Entre Mares. Emplazamiento, infraestructuras y organización de los puertos romanos, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome: 207-214.
• Sebastiani A., 2023. La Tomba della Corona presso Podere Cannicci. In Baldini G., Del Segato V., Marcocci A., Milletti M. (eds). Gli Etruschi di Casenovole. Passato Remoto di una Comunità. Catalogo della Mostra, Effigi, Arcidosso: 61-74.
• Sebastiani A., Rao R., 2023. Introduction. In Rao R. and Sebastiani A. (eds). Landscapes of Mediterranean Tuscia (AD 400-1000). Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout: 11-20.
• Chirico E., Sebastiani A., 2023. The late antique landscapes of the ager Rusellanus. In Rao R. and Sebastiani A. (eds). Landscapes of Mediterranean Tuscia (AD 400-1000). Research and Field Papers. Brepols, Turnhout: 88-106.
• Sebastiani A. 2022. Un orcio pieno di funghi? Nota sulla comunità rurale di Podere Cannicci (IV-I secolo A.C.). In S. Bruni (ed) Studi in Onore di Giovannagelo Camporeale. ETS Edizioni, Pisa: 263-276.
• Sebastiani A.  2022, Una sepoltura ellenistica da Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico – Grosseto). Riflessioni a margine tra vita e morte di un santuario e villaggio tardo etrusco e repubblicano. In A. Cristilli, F. de Luca, G. di Luca, A. Gonfloni (eds) Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2, BAR Publishing, Oxford: 265-273.
• Woldeyohannes E. and Sebastiani A. 2022, Violence, Memory and the Contours of Grief: Placing Identity in Affective Landscape(s) at the Rural Settlement of Podere Cannicci (Italy – GR). In A. Cristilli, F. de Luca, G. di Luca, A. Gonfloni (eds) Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2, BAR Publishing, Oxford: 5-12.
• 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 (2^nd February 2015), Zagreb: 107-127.
• Sebastiani A., Colombini M., Cygielman M. and Chirico E. 2016. Il quartiere artigianale di Spolverino (Alberese – GR): impianti di lavorazione dei metalli e del vetro tra III e V sec. d.C. In V. Di Cola and F. Pitzalis (eds), Materiali per Populonia 11: 283-297.

• 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

• IANSA – Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in Archaeology, Peer-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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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