Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Francesca teaches pre-Roman and Roman Archaeology at the Division of Archaeology in Cambridge and at the University of Roma Tre in Rome; and Roman civilization within the Classical World course at the Institute of Continuing Education. She has just completed a Marie Slodowska Curie Project at the University of Roma Tre which explained the early success of Rome in central Italy by analysing river and road networks in Etruria and Latium vetus during the Early Iron Age.
Her teaching combines a deep knowledge of the material culture and the languages and literature of classical civilizations with the most cutting edge technologies and methodologies acquired during her post-graduates studies at Cambridge. For example her new project on infant feeding practices in Pre-Roman and Roman Italy will combine literary sources, material culture, isotopes analyses, anthropological and DNA analyses to investigate the impact of urbanization and Romanization on infant feeding practices and vice-versa the effect of different feeding practices on morbidity, mortality and demography.
Francesca has conducted research and lectured at leading Institution and Universities across Europe and encourages questions and debate in her classes. Archaeology is fun for her and a passion, and her courses reflect this.
My research to date has focused on urbanization and state formation in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC with a particular focus on middle Tyrrhenian Italy. I have published books and peer reviewed articles on the urbanization and the development of complex societies in Rome and its surrounding regions. My Current project as a Marie Curie Researcher at the University of Roma Tre explores these processes by studying cultural and geographical connections with the Network Approach. In particular by analysing fluvial and terrestrial connections of Etruria and Latium vetus my research highlighted the advantages of the Latin region which might explain the success of early Rome. I am also working on a new project on infant feeding in pre-Roman and Roman Italy. This project will highlight the culture specific aspects of childrearing and its universal features; and what effects the urbanization of Rome and the development of Roman civilization might have had on childrearing and vice-versa.
AIAC, International Association of Classical Archaeologists
EAA, European Association of Archaeologists
