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  • Antonino Crisà

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    Humanities & Social Sciences


Antonino ‘Nino’ Crisà is an Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of Humanities (Core Program) at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University. He specializes in Classical Archaeology, Numismatics, History of Archaeology, Heritage & Museum Studies, and World History. Crisà’s work focuses on assessing coin circulation, hoarding trends in Antiquity and Modern Age, and Archival Research, with particular interest in Sicily and the Mediterranean World. His experience includes a 3-year period in commercial archaeology in Italian construction sites, a post-doctoral research activity at the University of Warwick (2016-19) and Ghent University (2019-22), where he carried out his Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, contributing to the study of archaeology in danger during World War 2.

In teaching, Dr. Crisà emphasizes an all-inclusive interdisciplinary approach, including a variety of links spanning amongst the Humanities, Archaeology, History and Ancient/Modern Languages, and aims to help students develop critical thinking, linguistics and writing skills. Therefore, his students integrate a profitable approach to learning to connect theory with practice.

Currently, Dr. Crisà is engaged in several research projects in Italy (e.g. leading numismatist at Calvatone-Bedriacum) and is interested in advancing the study of archival records on the history of Italian archaeology, coin circulation and hoards, assessing novel finds.

PhD Archaeology, University of Leicester, Leicester (UK), 2015

Specialization in Classical Archaeology (post lauream 3-year course), University of Milan, Milan (Italy), 2010

Master in Archaeology, University of Milan, Milan (Italy), 2007

Bachelor in Classics & Humanities, University of Milan, Milan (Italy), 2004

For a full list of publications see: https://www.antoninocrisa.com/publications.

Books:

  1. Crisà, A. (2025). Codename SICILYWAR: Archaeology, Museums and Social Networks Under Threat in Sicily during World War 2. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  2. Crisà, A. (2018). When Archaeology Meets Communities: Impacting Interactions in Northern Sicily Over Two Eras (Messina, 1861-1918). Oxford: Archaeopress.
  3. Crisà, A. (2012). Numismatic and Archaeological Collecting in Northern Sicily during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (International Series 2411).

Edited volumes:

  1. Crisà, A. (ed.) (2025). Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and World War II: Italy, Greece, France and Finland as Historical Contexts. Leiden: Brill.
  2. Crisà, A. (ed.) (2021). Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring Monetiform Objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bruxelles: Centre d’Études Numismatiques (Travaux CEN 22).
  3. Crisà, A., Gkikaki, M. & Rowan, C. (eds.) (2017). Tokens: Culture, Connections, Communities. London: Royal Numismatic Society.

Journal Articles:

  1. Crisà, A. (2025). Antiquarian matters and a newly-found tessera hospitalis in eighteenth-century Sicily: G. L. Castelli, A. Muratori and G. F. Soli Muratori (1748-59). Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 29: 205–49 (https://doi.org/10.12797//SAAC.29.2025.29.10)
  2. Crisà, A. (2025). Sicilian pilgrimage. A little-known medal honors Pope John Paul II’s pastoral trip to Tindari, Sicily. The Numismatist, 138 (October): 47–51.
  3. Crisà, A. (2024). Rebel countermarks against ‘King Bomb’. The Numismatist, 137 (January): 32–39.
  4. Crisà, A. (2024). Ancient tokens from the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse. Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 27 (2023): 159–82 (https://doi.org/10.12797/SAAC.27.2023.27.08).
  5. Crisà, A. (2023). The small hoard of Pettineo (Messina, Italy, 1957): the gold oncie (1734-6) of Charles III. The Numismatic Chronicle, 183: 419–26.
  6. Crisà, A. & Palmieri, L. (2023). The «Calvatone Hoard 2018» (Cremona, Italy): Archaeology and hoarding trends during the reign of Gallienus (AD (253-268). FOLD&R: The Journal of Fasti On-Line 2023 (https://www.fastionline.org/mod_code/data.php?file=folder/FOLDER-it-2023-551.pdf).
  7. Crisà, A. (2022). The hoard of Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea (Messina, Italy, 1950): gold 8 escudos (1714–46) of Philip V. The Numismatic Chronicle, 182: 398–405.
  8. Crisà, A. (2020). Ancient tokens of Sicily. Small communities on the Mediterranean island utilized these pieces for ceremonial purposes. The Numismatist, 133,2: 47–51 (prize 2021).
  9. Crisà, A. (2020). Farmers, police force and authorities: the ‘Calvatone Hoard 1911’ as seen through archival records (Cremona – Italy). Notae Numismaticae – Zapiski Numizmatyczne, 15: 107–30.
  10. Crisà, A. (2020). A rare spintria from the Roman villa of Patti Marina (Messina – Italy). Archeologia Classica, 71: 635–48.
  11. Crisà, A. (2020). Construction sites, state collections, sixteenth-century Spanish and Maltese coins: the “Via Maqueda Hoard” in context (Palermo, 1872). American Journal of Numismatics, 32: 331–79.
  12. Crisà, A. (2019). After a trip: the effects of Augustus’ propaganda in Sicily through historical, numismatic and archaeological sources. Arctos. Acta Philologica Fennica, 53: 37–67.
  13. Crisà, A. (2018). A new terracotta tessera from the excavations of the University of Milan at Palmyra (Tadmor, Syrian Arab Republic) (2010). Archeologia Classica, 69: 803–10.
  14. Crisà, A. (2014). An eighteenth-century Sicilian coin hoard from the Termini-Cerda railway construction site (Palermo, 1869). American Journal of Numismatics, 26: 339–62 (prize 2015).
  15. Crisà, A. (2014). The accidental archaeologist: the unfortunate case of Antonio Filippello and the coin hoard of Castiglione (Catania, Sicily, 1818). Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 24, 6: 1–11.
  16. Crisà, A. (2014). Coin collectors and museum donors: contextualizing Delfino Trucchi and Antonino Salinas in early post-Unification Sicily (1868-73). Journal of the History of Collections, 26, 2: 277–86.
  17. Crisà, A. (2012). Paolo Cataldi, a counterfeiter of ancient coins at Buccheri (Syracuse, 1818): some archival records. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 113: 385–90.
  18. Crisà, A. (2011). Lettera di Girolamo Bonanno Chiaramonte su una moneta d’oro di Costantino IV (Caltagirone, 1745). Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 112: 403–07.
  19. Crisà, A. (2010). A letter of Michele Schiavo describing a coin of Didia Clara (Palermo, eighteenth century). Arctos. Acta Philologica Fennica, 44: 99–108.
  20. Crisà, A. (2010). Archeologia e numismatica a Cefalù negli studi antiquari tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 111: 493–96.
  21. Crisà, A. (2009). G. L. Castelli, principe di Torremuzza, numismatico ed antichista ad Halaesa Archonidea. LANX, 2, 2: 116–49.
  22. Crisà, A. (2009). Lettera di Antonino Restivo Navarro al barone Enrico Pirajno di Mandralisca con due repertori numismatici. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 110: 521–32.
  23. Crisà, A. (2009). Numismatica e archeologia a Lipari nelle lettere di Enrico Pirajno a Celestino Cavedoni (1861-1864). Mediterranea. Ricerche storiche, 6, 17: 449–78.
  24. Crisà, A. (2008). Maschere teatrali nella Sicilia settentrionale: tra collezionismo antiquario e ricerca archeologica. Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali, 8: 11–45.
  25. Crisà, A. (2008). La monetazione di Tindari romana con segni di valore e legende in lingua latina. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 109: 235–68.
  26. Crisà, A. (2006). Tyndaris: storia, studi numismatici e iconografia monetale dei Dioscuri. Cronaca Numismatica, 18, 186: 36–46 (prize 2006).

Book chapters:

  1. Crisà, A. (2025). Gaetano Gemmellaro, Francesco Anca and Enrico Pirajno: three patriots and a proposal for a new national museum in post-Unification Palermo (1861). In P. Dragoni, V. Lisanti, I. M. Mariani & C. Paparello (eds.), Musei e Contesti (pp. 33–62). Rome: Ginevra Bentivoglio Editoria.
  2. Crisà, A. (2025). Numismatic finds from the south-west quarter of Palmyra: a preliminary report. In E. E. Intagliata (ed.), The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Archaeological Project. Selected Essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in Memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History) (pp. 143–60). Turnhout: Brepols.
  3. Crisà, A. (2025). Archaeology, networks and authorities in a state of war: the ‘4-level system’ in Sicily (1939-43). In B. Arnold (ed.), Connecting People and Ideas: Networks and Networking in the History of Archaeology (pp. 157–69). New York: Springer.
  4. Crisà, A. (2025). Le monete. In L. Zamboni (ed.), Il Quartiere degli Artigiani a Calvatone. Gli scavi di Maria Teresa Grassi 2005/2013 (pp. 185–91). Milan: Milano University Press.
  5. Crisà, A. (2023). New Hellenistic and Roman clay tokens from Sicily: some case studies from the Museum of Palermo. In M. Gkikaki (ed.), Tokens in Classical Athens: Politics, Communities and Contexts (pp. 237–57). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  6. Crisà, A. (2023). Le monete di Palazzo Sanvitale. In C. Calvani (ed.), Gli scavi di Palazzo Sanvitale a Parma (1980-1990) (pp. 157–213). Oxford: Archaeopress.
  7. Crisà, A. (2021). Goddesses on ‘monetiform’ objects: Hellenistic clay tokens from the small community of Makella-Marineo (Palermo, Italy). In Crisà A. (ed.), Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring Monetiform Objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (pp. 33–56). Bruxelles: Centre d’Études Numismatiques (CEN n. 22).
  8. Crisà, A., Lanza, S. & Randazzo, G. (2015). Chapter 7: The Historical Evolution of the Tindari-Marinello Spit (Patti, Messina, Italy). In G. Randazzo, D. Jackson and A. Cooper (eds.), Sand and Gravel Spits (pp. 103–21). London: Springer.
  9. Crisà, A. (2013). Le monete. In M. T. Grassi (ed.), Calvatone-Bedriacum. I nuovi scavi nell’area della Domus del Labirinto (2001-2006) (pp. 476–96). Gazoldo degli Ippoliti: Associazione Postumia.

Conference proceedings:

  1. Crisà, A. (2026). Cultural heritage at risk in Sicily: military interference at the Castle of Brucoli (Syracuse, 1941-42). In VV.AA., Proceedings of the Social Science & Humanities Research Association International Conference, 02-03 December 2025, Kuala Lumpur. SSHRA: Jaipur 2026 (forthcoming).
  2. Crisà, A. (2025). A disputed painting in Cefalù (Sicily, Italy): the Portrait of An Unknown Man by Antonello da Messina and its missed renovation (1942). In VV.AA., Proceedings of the IRES International Conference, Dubai 03rd May 2025 (pp. 7–18). Dubai: IRAJ International Press.
  3. Crisà, A. (2025). Early-modern coins under threat in Sicily: An Italian prisoner prosecuted by the Allied Government and the presumed ‘Palermo AMGOT Hoard 1943’. In A. Bursche and J. Bodzek (eds.), Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw 11-16 September 2022 (pp. 53–61). Turnhout: Brepols.
  4. Crisà, A. (2024). War in Sicily: protecting archaeological sites to contain military interference (1940-43). In R. Amore, M. I. Pascariello and A. Veropalumbo (eds.), City and War. Military Defences, Ruins, Permanences of Urban Memories and Images. Vol. 2 (pp. 1027–33). Naples: Federico II University Press.
  5. Crisà, A. (2022). Tokens and the reproduction of divinities in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily: some preliminary case studies. In M. Heinzelmann and M. Bentz (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), Cologne/Bonn, 22-26 May 2018. Session 2-3, Single Contributions (pp. 47–58). Bonn: Propylaeum (https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.999.c13340).
  6. Crisà, A. (2018). Why should the Palermo Museum and Antonino Salinas keep Arabic coins? New records on Canon Giovanni Pacetto’s donation (1877). In B. Callegher and A. D’Ottone (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Assemani Symposium on Arabic Coinage, Rome, 29-30 September 2017 (pp. 257–72). Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste.
  7. Crisà, A. (2018). Reconsidering the Calvatone Hoard 1942: A numismatic case study on the Roman vicus of Bedriacum (Cremona, Italy). In S. Jellonek, P. Koczwara and B. Zając (eds.), Proceedings of the III International Numismatic Conference «Pecunia Omnes Vincit»: Coin as a medium of exchange throughout centuries, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 20-21 May 2016 (pp. 18–31). Cracow: A. Gajda and Editors.
  8. Crisà, A. (2017). Collecting coins and connecting collectors: government and social networks in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816-1860). In M. C. Caltabiano (ed.), Proceedings of the XV International Numismatic Congress, Taormina 21-25 September 2015 (pp. 135–39). Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, vol. 1.
  9. Crisà, A. (2011). Heroic cults in Northern Sicily between numismatics and archaeology. In N. Holmes (ed.), Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow 31 August-4 September 2009 (pp. 114–22). Glasgow: International Numismatic Council.

Selected reviews:

  1. Crisà, A. (2024). Review of «R. Smith, Making Money in the Early Medieval Ages (Princeton 2023)». The Antiquaries Journal, 104: 396–99.
  2. Crisà, A. (2024). Review of «M. Asolati, Nummi Aenei Cyrenaici. Struttura e cronologia della monetazione bronzea cirenaica di età greca e romana (325 a.C.-180 d.C.) (Rome 2023)». Libyan Studies Journal, 55: 1–2.
  3. Crisà, A. (2024). Review of «S. Boccardi, Pietrabbondante. I rinvenimenti numismatici dalle campagna di scavo 1959-2019» (Rome 2024). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2024 (online) (https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.10.43/).
  4. Crisà, A. (2024). Review of «F. de Callataÿ (ed.), Numismatic antiquarianism through correspondence (16th–18th c.). In the margin of the project Fontes Inediti Numismaticae Antiquae (FINA) (New York 2023)». Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2024 (online) (https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.10.14/).
  5. Crisà, A. (2024). Review of «J. Mairat, A. Wilson, C. Howgego (eds.), Coin Hoards ad Hoarding in the Roman World (Oxford 2022)». Classical Review, 1-3 (2023) (First View): 1–3 (on-line).
  6. Crisà, A. (2022). Review of «F. L. Holt, When Money Talks. A History of Coins and Numismatics (Oxford 2021)». Classical World, 116, 1: 107–08.
  7. Crisà, A. (2022). Review of «N. Pollard, Bombing Pompeii. World Heritage & Military Necessity (Ann Arbor 2019)». Il Capitale Culturale, 25: 683–85.
  8. Crisà, A. (2021). Review of «S. Garfi, Conflict Landscapes. An Archaeology of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (Oxford 2019)». Landscape Journal, 40, 1: 69–71.
  9. Crisà, A. (201). Review of «M. Kenawi and G. Marchioni, Unearthing Alexandria’s Archaeology: The Italian Contribution (Oxford 2018)». The Antiquaries Journal, 99, 1-2: 465–67.
  10. Crisà, A. (2018). Review of «F. Collura (ed.), Studia Calactina I. Ricerche su una città di Sicilia: Kalè Akté - Calacte (Oxford 2017)». Classical Review, 2, 1-3: 1–3 (on-line).
  11. Crisà, A. (2017). Review of «R. J. A. Wilson. Caddeddi on the Tellaro. A Late Roman Villa in Sicily and its Mosaics (Leuven 2016)». Classical World, 111, 1: 141–43.
  12. Crisà, A. (2016). Exhibition review of «Il Salinas ricorda Salinas (1914–2014): «Del Real Museo di Palermo e del suo avvenire», Museo Archeologico ‘A. Salinas’, Palermo, 8 July-4 November 2014». Museum Worlds. Advances in Research, 4, 1: 230–32.
  13. Crisà, A. (2015). Review of «S. Anastasio and L. Botarelli, The 1927–1938 Italian Archaeological Expedition to Transjordan in Renato Bartoccini’s Archives (Oxford 2015)». Fe.RA. Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde, 28: 72–74.

Research profile links

Personal website:https://www.antoninocrisa.com/. 

Academia.edu: https://wwwpmu.academia.edu/AntoninoCrisa.

SICILYWAR research project: https://sicilywar.wordpress.com/.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonino-cris%C3%A0-b87b6937/.

 

Conferences, Events and Workshops Organized/Chaired

2020 Antiquities, Sites and Museums under Threat: Cultural Heritage and Communities in a State of War (1939-45), 15-16 October 2020, Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium): organizer of a two-day ‘virtual’ conference, featuring international scholars.

2018 Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring Monetiform Objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 18-19 October 2018, The British School at Rome (Rome, Italy): organizer of a two-day workshop on ancient tokens, featuring international leading scholars.

2015 The State and Its Past: Consolidating National Identities Through History, Archaeology, and Politics, Franke Institute, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA): co-organizer of a one-day conference featuring international speakers (10/10/15).

 

Selected grants, funds and scholarships

2023 World History Association: Grant to attend the WHA Pittsburgh Meeting (06/2023).

2022 International Numismatic Council: Grant to attend the XVI INC Warsaw (09/2022).

2020 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO): Funding to organize a 2-day conference at Ghent University, October 2020 (see relevant section).

2019 ERC Marie Curie Skłodowska Individual Fellowship (166.320 €).

2017 Association of the Ancient Historians: Subvention Grant to attend the AAH Meeting (Providence, 04-06 May 2017).

2016 Royal Numismatic Society: Research Funds to study two unpublished ancient and modern coin hoards at the Archaeological Museum of Palermo (summer-autumn 2016).

2016 Classical Association of the Atlantic States: Travel Grant to attend the CAAS-CW Fall Meeting (New Brunswick, 20-22 October 2016).

 

Selected Conference Papers

2026 ‘Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference’, 2-5 February 2026 (Auckland, New Zealand): New advancements in Roman numismatics: the study of the ‘Calvatone Hoard 2018’ in context (Cremona – Italy) (03/02/26).

2025 ‘Social Science & Humanities Research Association International Conference’, 02-03 December 2025, Hotel Capital Conference Centre (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia): Cultural heritage at risk in Sicily: military interference at the Castle of Brucoli (Syracuse, 1941-42) (02/12/25).

2025 ‘Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW)’, 21-23 November 2025, University of Malta (Valletta, Malta): Antiquarianism and the Classical Heritage: A New Concept in Modern Age Sicily (22/11/25).

2025 ‘Faculty Forum’, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia): Replacing money? The role of tokens in the Classical Mediterranean world (16/04/25).

2025 ‘15th European Social Science History Conference’ (ESSHC), Leiden University, 26-29 March 2025 (Leiden, Netherlands): Too far away from Peru and Mexico? The small coin hoard of Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea (Messina, Sicily, 1950) and the Philip V’s gold 8 escudos in context (1714-46) (28/03/25).

2025 ‘Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference’, 2-5 February 2025 (Canberra, Australia): Emergency contexts, antiquities and World War 2: new data on the archaeological collections of the National Museum of Palermo (1940-43) (03/02/25).

2024 ‘XVI Giornate Gregoriane: «Pulcherrima et plurima spolia: collezionismo e collezionisti in Sicilia tra ‘700 e ‘800»’, 13-14 December 2024 (Palermo, Italy): Antonino Salinas e il Museo Nazionale di Palermo: le collezioni numismatiche tra strategie intelligenti ed acquisti mirati (14/12/24).

2024 ‘Mediterranean Studies Association 26th Annual Conference’, 28-31 May 2024 (Valencia, Spain): Sicily in the Modern Age: Antiquarians and Archaeologists Shaping a New Cultural heritage (16th-17th centuries) (29/05/24).

2023 ‘The sources of the engravers: magical gems in a history of image transfers’, International Symposium, 15-17 February 2023, Université de Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland): Magical gems in Sicily: some case studies between iconography and collections (15/02/23).

2022 ‘Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW)’, 03-05 November 2022, Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA): Sicily in the nineteenth century: shaping the reception of an island through its museums (05/11/22).

2022 ‘XVI International Numismatic Congress’, 11-16 September 2022 (Warsaw, Poland): Modern coins under threat: an Italian prisoner prosecuted by the Allied Government in Sicily (1943) (12/09/22).

2021 ‘World History Association Conference 2021: Health, Globally’, 5-9 July 2021 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): Sicily and World War 2: preserving antiquities, museums and sites in danger (1940–45) (06/07/21).

2021 ‘Mediterranean Studies Association 23rd Annual Conference’, 26-29 May 2021 (Gibraltar, UK): Protecting antiquities in a State of War: Sicily and World War II (28/05/21).

2020 ‘European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting’, 26-30 August 2020 (Budapest, Hungary): Networks connecting archaeologists and authorities in Sicily (1940-45): Pietro Griffo and Jole Bovio Marconi during World War 2 (27/08/20).

2020 ‘Classical Association of the Mid-West States (CAMWS) Annual Meeting’, 26-30 May 2020 (Birmingham, Alabama, USA): Protecting antiquities in danger: Sicily and World War 2 (1940-45) (30/05/20).

2019 ‘Tokens: The Athenian Legacy to the Modern World’, 16-17 December 2019 (Athens, Greece): New Hellenistic and Roman clay tokens from Sicily through local identities, museum and archival research (17/12/19).

2018 ‘World History Association Conference’, 21-23 June 2018 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA): Not ‘banal’ material culture: ancient tokens, daily life and religion in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily (22/06/18).

2018 ‘AIAC/ICCA XIX Congress’, 22-26 May 2018 (Cologne/Bonn, Germany): Religion, micro-economies and divinities reproduction on small tesserae in Roman Sicily (26/05/18).

2018 ‘AIA/SCS Meeting’, 4-7 January 2018 (Boston, MA, US): The sacred twins even on tokens: the role of Dioskuroi at the ancient Tyndaris (Messina – Sicily) (07/01/18).

2017 ‘Association of the Ancient Historians Annual Meeting’, Brown University, 04-07 May 2017 (Providence, Rhode Island, USA): To be or not to be a coin? Ancient tokens in Italy as an economic source and the representation of local communities (05/05/17).

2017 ‘60th Missouri History Valley Conference’, Magnolia Hotel, 02-04 March 2017 (Omaha, NE, USA): New photographs from the past: revealing excavations and social contexts in Sicily between nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (03/03/17).

2016 ‘Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) Fall Meeting’, The Heldrich Conference Center, 20-22 October 2016 (New Brunswick, NJ, USA): Being on Cori’s trail at ‘Ratae Corieltavorum’: Latin/Archaeology clubs and outreach activity at Leicester local K-12 schools (United Kingdom) (22/10/16).

2015 ‘XV International Numismatic Congress’, 21-25 September 2015 (Taormina, Italy): Collecting coins and connecting collectors: government and social networks in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816-1860) (24/09/15).

2015 AIA/SCS 146th Meeting, 8-11 January 2015 (New Orleans, LA, US): Above the law? Local priests and local archaeology in Sicily under the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1915) (11/01/15).

2014 ‘10th European Social Science History Conference’ (ESSHC), University of Vienna, 23-26 April 2014 (Vienna, Austria): Politicians, custodians and workers: a complex ‘archaeological’ society in late nineteenth-century Sicily (25/04/14).

2014 AIA/APA 145th Meeting, 2-5 January 2014 (Chicago, IL, US): Politics and archaeology in post-Unification Sicily (1861–1915): new perspectives from records (03/01/14).

Selected Invited Speaker

2025 University of Antwerp, Department of Heritage Studies (Antwerp, Belgium): CODENAME SICILYWAR. From dusty records to a research project on Sicilian antiquities at risk (1940-45) (24/03/25).

2021 Accordia Research Institute, ‘The Italy Lectures’ (London, UK): World War II in Sicily: protecting archaeology and museums under threat (15/03/21).

2020 NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (Amsterdam, Netherlands): Archaeology and museums at risk: impacting World War 2 in Sicily (10/03/20).

2019 ‘The small stuff of the Palmyrenes: the coins and tesserae of Palmyra’, 20-21 June 2019 (Copenhagen, Denmark): An unexpected find from the sand: a new tessera from the south-west quarter of Palmyra (2010) (21/06/19).

2018 Universität Tübingen, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, ‘Forschungskolloquium’ (Tübingen, Germany): Small monetiform objects in Roman Sicily: tokens and local cults (31/10/18).

2018 Casa Italia Chicago, Italian Cultural Center (Chicago, IL, USA): A token for your thoughts: the lost and rediscovered world of token use in ancient Sicily (27/06/18).

2017 Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland): The newly-found world of tokens: an overview of Hellenistic and Roman Sicily (31/05/17).

2017 San Diego State University, Department of History (sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America) (San Diego, CA, USA): Ancient tokens and communities: insights into Hellenistic and Roman Sicily (06/03/17).

Field archaeologist and numismatist, Società Lombarda di Archeologia srl (Milan, Italy), 2007.

Field archaeologist and numismatist, Pandora Archeologia srl (Novara, Italy), 2010.

Field archaeologist, Tecne srl (Riccione, Italy), 2011.

Specialist mentor to a disabled PhD student, University of Leicester, AccessAbility Center (Leicester, UK), 2012-16.

Teaching assistant (Classics subjects), University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History (Leicester, UK), 2012-16.

Research Fellow, Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean (ERC Project), University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History (Coventry, UK), 2016-19.

ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow, Cultural Heritage in Danger: Archaeology and Communities in Sicily during the Second World War (1940–45) (https://sicilywar.wordpress.com/) (evaluation score: 97.20/100), Ghent University, Department of Archaeology (Ghent, Belgium), 2019-22.

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (KSA) (2022-now)

  • COMM 1311: Written Communication
  • COMM 1312: Writing and Research
  • COMM 2311: Oral Communication
  • DENV 1312: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • GEGR 1311: World Regional Geography
  • HIST 1311: Worlds of Civilizations 1500-1900
  • UNIV 1211: Professional Development and Competencies
  • UNIV 1213: Leadership and Teamwork

University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) (2016-19)

  • Principles and Methods of Classical Archaeology (seminars)
  • Roman Numismatics (seminars)

University of Leicester (Leicester, UK) (2012-16)

  • AH1008: Greek Language
  • AH1009: Latin Language
  • AH1010: Greek History
  • AH1011: Roman History

AREA 1: Classical Archaeology, History of Archaeology.

AREA 2: Numismatics, Coin Hoards, Economic History.

AREA 3: Cultural Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, Heritage At Risk, Art History.

AREA 4: Classics (Greek & Latin), Reception of Classics.

American Historical Association (Washington, DC, USA)

American Numismatic Association (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)

American Numismatic Society (New York, NY, USA)

Archaeological Institute of America (Boston, MA, USA)

Association of Ancient Historians (San Diego, CA, USA)

Classical Association of the Atlantic States Classical World (Baltimore, MD, USA)

Classical Association of the Middle West and South (Monmouth, IL, USA)

Mediterranean Studies Association (North Dartmouth, MA, USA)

Society for Antiquaries of London (as Fellows of the Society, by election) (London, UK)

World History Association (Boston, MA, USA)