Nicola Terrenato
b. Rome, Italy. 22.10.1963
1998- Assistant Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1990-94 University of Pisa. PhD in Roman Archaeology. Dissertation on “Cities and territories of Northern Etruria in Roman Times” (director Prof. A. Carandini).
1992 University of Michigan. Visiting Scholar.
1983-88 University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Cum laude degree in Roman Archaeology. Thesis on “The lower Cecina valley survey”.
2003-2006 American Academy in Rome. Director of the Summer Program in Archaeology
2000-01 British Academy. Visiting Fellow.
2000-01 Churchill College, Cambridge. By-Fellowship.
1996-98 University of Durham. Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow.
1996-98 University of Siena. Part-time lecturer.
1992-96 University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Teaching and Research Assistant.
1994-95 Colgate University Venice Study Group. Lecturer (Fall semesters).
1989-90 M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation. “Daniela Fusaro” Scholarship.
2003 Cullen Prize, for "the most promising contribution to archaeology by a younger author". Antiquity Board of Trustees.
2003- Villa delle Grotte (Grottarossa). Principal Investigator.
2001-pres. Torre di Donoratico Excavation. Principal Investigator.
1987-2002. Cecina valley field survey and excavations at Cosciano and San Mario. Sponsored by Earthwatch Institute and Regione Toscana. Grants to date: > $ 170,000. Principal Investigator.
1997 Falerii Novi Hinterland project. Principal Investigator (to be resumed in 2003-4).
1997 Botromagno (Gravina) Interpretation of surface evidence and GIS data processing. Grants to date £ 6000. Principal Investigator.
1996 Excavations at the Auditorium site, Rome. Field director.
1985-96 Excavations on the Northern slope of the Palatine. Area supervisor.
Post-excavation work on the archaic and mid-Republican phases.
1990-96 Excavations at the roman villas of S. Pietro - Tolve and S. Gilio - Oppido in the Bradano valley (Basilicata). Field director.
1987-89 Excavations at the Roman Theatre in Volterra. Field co-director.
Conference organizer: Archeologia teorica, Siena 1999; State formation in the Mediterranean and beyond, Chapel Hill, October 2003 (with D. Haggis).
Keynote address: Sixth Conference of Italian Archaeology, Groningen 2003.
Invited speaker. Day conference at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris to present the book Italy and the West (eds. S. Keay, N. Terrenato), 2000; The Roman State from the Etruscan Kings to the Plebeian Consuls, Columbia University, New York, 2002; Side-by-side survey, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002.
Session organizer: “Italy and the West”, EAA Conference, Ravenna 1997 (with Simon Keay); “Cultural hegemony and local identities under the expanding Roman Republic”, RAC 3, Glasgow 2001 (with P. Van Dommelen); “State Formation in the Mediterranean: beyond evolutionism”, AIA Meeting, New Orleans 2003 (with D. Haggis).
Invited seminars: Universities of Bologna, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow, London, Michigan, Oxford, Paris 13, Pisa, Rome I, Siena, Southampton, St. Andrews, Stanford; CNR (Rome); British School at Rome; Museo Guarnacci (Volterra).
Papers given at: La cartografia archeologica, Pisa 1988; Geofisica per l'Archeologia, Rome 1988; Papers in Italian Archaeology 4, London 1990; Archeologia del paesaggio, Siena 1991; POPULUS, Siena 1994; GIS-Internet, Siena 1995; The theory, history and methodology of regional archaeological projects, Leiden 1996; I residui nello scavo archeologico, Rome 1996; EAA Conference, Riga 1996; TRAC, Nottingham 1997; TAG, Bournemouth 1997; Further Approaches to the Tiber Valley, Rome 1998; RAC 2, Durham 1999; SAA Meeting, Philadelphia 2000; Secondo Congresso di Archeologia Medievale, Brescia 2000; SAA Meeting, New Orleans 2001; AIA Meeting, Philadelphia 2002; SAA Meeting, Denver 2002.
Advisory Editor: Antiquity. 2001-2002.
Reviewer of manuscripts submitted for publication: Cambridge University Press; Papers of the British School at Rome; Journal of Roman Archaeology; European Journal of Archaeology; Journal of Archaeological Science; Journal of Structural Geology, Internet Archaeology.
Grant application reviewer: National Science Foundation; National Geographic Society; Earthwatch Institute; National Research Council, Italy; Ministry of Research, Italy; University of Siena.
External promotion assessor: University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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Graduate |
Undergraduate |
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Etruscan and Roman Architecture (UNC) |
Ancient Cities (UNC) |
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Roman Topography (UNC) |
The Archaeology of Italy(UNC, Colgate) |
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Etruscology (special reading course) (UNC) |
Rome and the West (Durham) |
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Rome and the western provinces (UNC, Durham) |
History of Archaeology (Siena) |
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Archaeological Field Methods (UNC) |
Quantitative Archaeology (Siena) |
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Field survey methods (Rome) |
Classical Art and Archaeology (Rome) |
1997-pres. Settlement and Landscape in Central and Southern Italy project (Free Univ. Amsterdam, Groningen Univ., Netherlands Organization for Adv. Research). Research Board Member.
1999-pres. AIA European Committee. Member.
1999-2003 University of North Carolina. Graduate Admissions Committee