Giovanna studies the reception of the classical world in modern western intellectual history, with a particular interest in the interaction between the scholarly practices and socio-cultural politics that shape our vision of the past. Her research focuses on the history of classical archaeology, antiquarianism and the modern historiography of ancient Greece. She has written articles on contemporary British archaeological thought, the history of archaeology of Sicily and eighteenth-century histories of ancient Greece. She is a research director for the project Archives of European Archaeology (AREA). Currently she is writing a book on the history of the study of Magna Graecia – the area of ancient Greek settlement in South Italy – in relation to its place in modern Hellenism.

Giovanna Ceserani

Assistant Professor

PhD Cambridge 2000