BRIEF PROFILE
Davide Domenici is Associate Professor of anthropology (M-DEA/01) at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, where he studies anthropology, history and archaeology of Indigenous American peoples during pre-colonial and early colonial times.
He is currently member of the teching committe of the PhD program in "Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem".
He teaches "Indigenous American Art and Culture" (L) "Museum Anthropology" (LM), "Colonialism, Archaoelogy and Museums" (LM) and "Historical Anthropology and Early Modern Globalization" (LM). He also teaches "Anthropology of Food" at the Master in History and Culture of Food, University of Bologna, and "Archaeology of the Americas" at the Specialization School in Archaeological Heritage.
He participated in various international archaeological projects at Nazca, Perù (1986-1990), Easter Island, Chile (1991-1992), and Teotihuacan, Mexico (1993-1994). Between 1999 and 2010 he directed the Rio La Venta Archaeological Project of the University of Bologna to the Selva El Ocote (Chiapas, Mexico),in cooperation with the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Between 2011 and 2016 he has been Director of the joint Italian-American Cahokia Project (University of Bologna; Washington University, St. Louis, MO), at Cahokia (IL, USA).
Current research projects:
- Non-invasive scientific analyses of painting materials employed on Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts, in cooperation with the mobile laboratory (MOLAB) of the Center of Excellence Scientific Methodologies applied to Archaeology and Art, University of Perugia-CNR.
- Cultural biographies of Mesoamerican artifacts in early modern Italy
- History of Food in Mesoamerica, with a special focus on the colonial encounter.
