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Federico Zaina

Adjunct professor

Department of History and Cultures

Curriculum vitae

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Education

2012-2015, PhD in Archaeology of the Near East, joint supervision, Sapienza - University of Rome and Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne,

2010, Erasmus, second term, University College of London.

2009-2011, MA in Archaeology of the Near East, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.

2004-2008, BA in Archaeology of the Near East, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.

 

Excavations and Survey

2019-today, Land of Kufa survey project, Najaf region (Iraq), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Koç University of Istanbul, University of Kufa, co-director.

2016-2020, QADIS project - survey in the Qadisiyah region (Iraq), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, field director and ceramologist.

2011-2019, Karkemish (Turkey), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, area supervisor (areas E and F in 2011 and 2017, area C in 2012-2016 and area AA in 2017) and ceramologist.

2009-2010, Taslı Geçit Höyük (Turkey), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, area supervisor (areas A in 2009-10 and area N in 2010).

2008, Tilmen Höyük (Turkey), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, assistant and restorator.

2007, Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna (Syria), University of Udine, area assistant (area T1).

2006, Phoinike (Albania), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, area assistant.

2006, Poviglio (Italy), University of Milan, area assistant.

2005, Galeata (Italy), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, area assistant.

2004-2008, Bologna (Italy), Archeologia & Restauro and Fenice SRL, area supervisor in 6 rescue excavation projects.

 

Scholarships and Grants

2020-2023, Research grant, The Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, Harvard University, United States.

2015, Universitè Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne travel grant (to attend the BANEA conference, 7-9 January 2015, London, UK) (200 €).

2014, Universitè Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne travel grant (to attend the 9th ICAANE, 14-16 June 2014, Basel, Switzerland) (600 €).

2013, The John Fell Fund Award for Humanities (Small Award Scheme), University of Oxford, for C14 analyses on stratified artifacts from the 3rd mill BC contexts at Tell Ingharra/Kish. Research undertaken in collaboration with Dr Paul Collins (Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East, Ashmolean Museum of Oxford) and the Oxford Radiocarbon Unit staff (£3,600).

2011-2015, Full PhD scholarship at the Department of Classics, Sapienza - University of Rome 1 (approx. € 13,000 per year).

2011, Postgraduate scholarship of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, to complete the MA dissertation project. This research was undertaken at the Field Museum of Chicago (USA) (€ 2,000).

 

Scientific Activity

Since 2008 regularly attends to international congresses in Italy, Europe and the U.S. (Symposium of Mediterranean Archaeology, Rencontres Assyriologiques Internationales, International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, ASOR Meeting) presenting papers and posters.

Since 2011 is member of the editorial staff of the scientific series OrientLab directed by N. Marchetti (http://www.orientlab.net/pubs/).

In 2011 collaborated in the organization of the exhibition "Kinku. Sigilli dell'età del Bronzo dalla regione di Gaziantep in Turchia" (Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale, 29 April-25 september2011, www.orientlab.net/kinku).

Between 2010 and 2016 he spent research periods in different European and American academic and museal institutions including the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, the Pitt Rivers Museum of Oxford, the British Museum of London, the Musée du Louvre of PariS, the Field Museum of Chicago and the Oriental Institute of Chicago.

Since 2008 he conducts researches on different topics including the Iron Age pottery from the Northern Levant (Turkey and Syria) and settlement pattern in Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age Southern Mesopotamia (Iraq).

Since 2011 he published numerous articles on national and international journals as well as conferences proceedings.

 

Lectures

Held lectures and seminars in various universities including Bologna, London, Basel, Helsinki, Baltimore, Rome, Florence, Munich, Siena, Milan, Najaf and Paris.

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