EXPERIENCE
Jobs & Professional Experience
August 2022-now
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia)
I am currently Assistant Professor at PMU. My duties are instructing general and elective courses on humanities and social studies for BA Core Curriculum program, marking assignments and essays, offering academic support to students through office hours and one-to-one mentoring. Average number of students: 30 per class. Teaching load: 6 classes per term (16-hours teaching per week). I have also research duties publishing at least 2 academic articles per year. Subjects:
COMM 1311 Written Communication.
COMM 1312 Writing and Research.
HIST1311 Worlds of Civilizations 1500-1900.
October 2019-January 2022
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE RESEARCH FELLOW
Ghent University, Department of Archaeology (Ghent, BELGIUM).
ERC Project: Cultural Heritage in Danger: Archaeology and Communities in Sicily during the Second World War (1940–45).
Topics: archaeology, history, WW2 studies, cultural heritage, museum studies, social studies.
October 2016-March 2019
RESEARCH FELLOW
University of Warwick, Department of Classics and Ancient History (Coventry, UK).
ERC Project: Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean.
Topics: numismatics, Hellenistic and Roman tokens from Sicily, iconography, archaeology, antiquarian research.
October 2012-May 2016
TEACHING FELLOW
University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History (Leicester, UK).
Courses taught:
2016 AH1008: Greek Language (Spring)
2015 AH1011: Roman History (Winter)
2015 AH1009: Latin Language (Winter)
2015 AH1008: Greek Language (Spring)
2014 AH1009: Latin Language (Winter)
2014 AH1008: Greek Language (Spring)
2013 AH1009: Latin Language (Winter)
2013 AH1010: Greek History (Spring)
2012 AH1009: Latin Language (Winter)
March 2012-July 2016
SPECIALIST MENTOR TO A DISABLED PHD ANCIENT HISTORY STUDENT
University of Leicester, AccessAbility Centre (Leicester, UK).
Duties: one-to-one mentoring, research, translating Greek and Latin inscriptions, thesis editing and proofreading.
February 2011-October 2011
FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST
Tecne srl (Riccione, ITALY).
Sites: Casale su Sile (Treviso): methane pipeline construction (historical archaeology); Adria (Rovigo): methane pipeline construction (Bronze Age-Roman period).
February 2010-August 2010
FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST & NUMISMATIST
Pandora Archeologia srl (Novara, ITALY).
Site: Via Gorani, Milan: private housing construction (Roman, Medieval and Modern period).
May 2009-December 2009
FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST & NUMISMATIST
Società Lombarda di Archeologia srl (Milan, ITALY).
Site: Piazza XXV Aprile, Milan: private parking area construction (Roman, Medieval and Modern period).
May 2006-March 2014
FREELANCE NUMISMATIC JOURNALIST
Coin magazine Cronaca Numismatica (2006-10).
Coin magazine Il Giornale della Numismatica (2012-14).