Andrea U. De Giorgi

Professor of Classics

Andrea U. De Giorgi specializes in Roman urbanism and visual culture from the origins to Late Antiquity, with emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Italian peninsula. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: from the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest (Cambridge University Press 2016, paperback 2018), co-author of Antioch. A History (2021, Routledge, winner of the G. Ernest Wright Book Award), editor of Antioch on the Orontes. History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture (Cambridge University Press 2024), Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (2019, Michigan), and co-editor of Cosa/Orbetello. Archaeological Itineraries (2016, Pegaso). He has directed excavations and surveys in Israel, Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Jordan, and the UAE. Since 2013, he has directed the Cosa Excavations, Italy. The ongoing excavation focuses on a bath establishment as well as on the investigation of the fortifications and the commercial areas of the Roman colony.  In the Summer of 2024, he also took on the co-directorship of the Montereggi Project, a new initiative that through a battery of excavation and survey techniques endeavors to explore the cultural evolution of a hilltop site on the Arno river, spanning the Etruscan era and the Middle Ages. He has collaborated with the Museo di Antichità di Torino, the Museo di Cosa in Ansedonia, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. The 1930s Antioch collections at the Princeton University Art Museum have been a focus of his research, spawning several authored and co-authored essays. He has received numerous fellowships and grants both from American and European institutions: the Whiting Foundation, Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschiendst (DAAD), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Thyssen Stiftung, Berliner Antike Kolleg, ANAMED, Archaeological Institute of America, National Humanities Center, and Delmas Foundation, to name but some. In 2019-2020 he held a Humboldt research fellowship at the Institut für Klassische Archäologie at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

 

Dr. De Giorgi is happy to take on new students.

 

Research Interests
Roman Archaeology of Italy and the Provinces, Classical Visual Culture, and Late Antiquity.