Research Area
Active Research fields
Greek History;
Religions of the Classical World;
History of Scholarship and Reception of the Antiquity;
History of Ancient Sicily.
Research projects of the last 5 years
Member of the project: CHRONOS: Chronologies of Religious Evolutions: Religious Forms, Cult Practices and Agents (2nd cent. B.C.-1st cent. A.D.)”-Axe: "Mystery Cults" (mysteria, teletai, orgiai etc.) and Their Specialized Actors (coord. by N. Belayche, École Pratique des Hautes Études – AnHiMA, Paris & F. Massa, Université de Genève).
http://www.anhima.fr/spip.php?article1374&lang=en
"Synesthesia : Interdisciplinary approaches to the sensitive landascapes in the Antiquity". 2016-2020 (insieme a A. Grand-Clément e A. Declercq (Équipe E.R.A.S.M.E. - Université de Toulouse, Jean Jaurès).
http://plh.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-plh/axes-de-recherche/axes-erasme-2016-2020/
Prin Project 2010-2011: "Il sapere mitico. Antropologia del mito antico”; nat. coord. Prof. Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena); loc. coord. Prof. V. Andò (Università di Palermo).
Research Project (financed by A. v. Humboldt-Bonn): La giustizia ha gli occhi scuri. Nemesis nella religione greca/Die Gerechtigkeit hat dunkle Augen. Nemesis in der griechischen Religion. (2012-2014)
Collaborations
Équipe E.R.A.S.M.E. - Université de Toulouse, Jean Jaurès
Centre AnHiMA -EPHE (Paris)
Max Weber Kolleg - Universität Erfurt
Seminar für alte Geschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Université de Montréal