Leverhulme Visiting Fellow

BA, MA, PhD (Pisa.)

Tel: 0116 252 2775

E-mail: al93@le.ac.uk

Alessandro Launaro read Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa (BA/MA, 2004) in Italy, being an Erasmus student at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester (2002/03). He completed his PhD, entitled 'Peasants and slaves. The rural population of Roman Italy (200 BC – AD 100)' at Pisa in 2008. He has been a Doctoral Member of the CLIOHRES.net – EU Network of Excellence on History (2005/08) and a Visiting Graduate Student in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (2007/08). As of February 2009 he is Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

Research

• Research interests
• Publications

Teaching

Selected Recent Publications

In press. La Val Polcevera dalla seconda Età del Ferro alla fine dell’Evo Antico. In Rivista di Studi Liguri 72: 1-33.

2007. Landscape and population of the Roman countryside (II c. BC – I c. AD). In A Cimdina e J Osmond (eds.), Power and Culture. Identity, Ideology and Representation. Pisa: Pisa University Press. 1-12. (Available online at CLIOHRES.net)

2007. I «castellari» di Sestri Ponente e Monte Carlo. In R De Marinis and G Spadea (eds.), Ancora su i Liguri. Genova: De Ferrari. 79-81.

2004. Concerning landscape. In Agri Centuriati 1: 31-41.