Participation in the Cluster of Excellence
Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
Religious Landscapes and Environmental Devotion
Research Focus
Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Iron Age and Roman Iberian Peninsula
Roman Britain
Ancient Religion
Cult Places
Iron Age and Roman pottery
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Landscape
Network Theory
Network Analysis
Ethical Challenges and Current Issues in Archaeology
Gender Role in Current Archaeology
Teaching
082023 Übung: The Religious Life of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Get to know Francesca: https://wire-wwu.de/dr-francesca-mazzilli-uncovering-portugals-hidden-archaeological-gems/
https://twitter.com/DrFranMazzilli
Updates about her current project: https://twitter.com/GarvaoC47690
Personal Academia Webpage: https://uni-m.academia.edu/FrancescaMazzilli
CV
Education
| 10/2008-07/2014 |
PhD in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; PhD Thesis Title: Beyond Religion: Cultural exchange and Economy in Syria (northern Phoenicia and Hauran) |
| 10/2007-01/2009 |
MA (Hons) in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; Grade: Distinction |
| 10/2004-06/2007 |
BA (Hons) in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; Grade: 2:1 |
Professional Experience
| 04/2023-current |
Wire (Women in Research) Fellow; Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster |
| 04/2023-current |
Guest Lecturer; Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster; Module: Religious Life in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East |
| 10/2022-current | Visiting Tutor; Royal Holloway University of London; Modules: Introduction to Greek Archaeology, Introduction to Roman Archaeology |
| 10/2022-current |
Guest Researcher; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen |
| 04/2022-10/2022 |
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen |
| 01/2022-03/2022 | Visiting Lecturer; Royal Holloway University of London; Modules: Introduction to Roman Archaeology, From Dig to Digital |
| 08/2020-1/2022 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen |
| 09/2021 | Guest Lecturer; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen; Module: Religions in Antiquity |
| 04/2021 |
Guest Lecturer; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen; Module: The Archaeology of Urban Built Environment in the Roman World |
| 01/2020-07/2020 |
Member of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; University of Cambridge |
| 04/2015-07/2020 |
Roman Pottery Specialist; Cambridge Archaeological Unit; Department of Archaeology; University of Cambridge; Tasks: analysing large quantities of Roman pottery, writing scientific reports, and contributing to publications about Roman pottery in Cambridgeshire |
| 04/2016 |
Teaching Assistant; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge: Task: teaching field archaeology to undergraduate students on site for three weeks |
| 07/2014-04/2015 | Field Archaeologist; Cambridge Archaeological Unit; Department of Archaeology; University of Cambridge |
| 09/2009-06/2012 |
Teaching Assistant; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham, Modules: Introduction to Archaeology, From Roman Empire to Nation-State |
| 09/2007-08/2012 |
Archaeological Illustrator; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham |
| 06/2007-09/2007 | Field Archaeologist; Oxford Archaeology South |
| 06/2006-09/2006 | Field Archaeologist; Archaeological Services University of Durham |
Research funding
| 04/2023-current |
WiRe (Women in Research) Fellowship, Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster |
| 08/2020-10/2022 |
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Actions, University of Bergen |
| 04/2015-06/2019 |
Conference Grant from Cambridge Archaeological Unit |
| 04/2010 | BANEA Conference Grant |
| 09/2010 | Rosemary Cramp Fund, University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant |
| 09/2010 |
University College Grant, University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant |
| 09/2010 |
Durham Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant |
| 04/2009 | Durham Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), University of Durham Workshop Organisation Grant |
| 04/2009 |
Graduate School University of Durham Workshop Organisation Grant |
| 01/2009 | BANEA Conference Grant |
| 10/2008-10/2009 | Durham DAS Award PhD tuition fees |
| 10/2004-06/2007 |
EU Scholarship; Undergraduate tuition fees |
| 06/2005-10/2006 |
Birley Funding, University of Durham Fieldwork Grant |
Publications
Journal articles
- Under Contract: Mazzilli Francesca. Cult Sites and Roman Road Network in the Hauran. Open Archaeology
- 2022: Mazzilli, Francesca. Roman soldiers in the religious, social, and spatial network of the Hauran. Mythos - Rivista di Storia delle Religioni doi: https://journals.openedition.org/mythos/5802
- 2021: Wiseman, Rob, Neil, Benjamin, & Mazzilli, Francesca. (2021). Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobbs’s Farm, Cambridgeshire. Britannia 52, pp.119–173 doi:10.1017/S0068113X21000064
- 2020: Wright, Alistair, Robinson Zeki, Leanne., Beats, Kate A., Boreham, Steve, Cessford, Craig, Mazzilli, Francesca, Percival, Sarah, Rajkovača, Vida, Robinson Zeki, Iona and Simmons, Ellen Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman at Downham Road, Ely, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 109, pp.41–60
- 2019: Alberti Marta, Gardner Andrew, Mazzilli Francesca, Wallace Lacey, Watson Sadie, Weekes Jake. Alienation and Redemption: the Praxis of (Roman) Archaeology in Britain, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 2 doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.374
- 2017: Cessford Craig (with contribution by Martin Allen, Steve Allen, Graham Appleby, Mike Bamforth, David Broomfield, Simon Crowhurt, Val Fryer, Andy Hall, Daid Hall, Adrian Marsden, Francesca Mazzilli, Benjamin Neil, Vida Rajkovaca, Mark Samuel Simon Timberlake, Iana Tyers and Waikato and SUERC laboratories). Riparian Cambridge: Archaeological Excavations near the River Cam at WYNG Gardens, Thompson’s Lane, and Elsewhere, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 107, pp.61–88
Monographs
- 2018: Mazzilli Francesca. Rural Cult centres in the Hauran; Part of a Broader Network of the Near East. Archaeopress
Edited Books
- 2023: Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
- 2021: Mazzilli Francesca and van der Linde Dies (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World. Franz Steiner Verlag
Special Issues
- Under Contract: Fulminante Francesca, Mazzilli Francesca, Elgeboden-Faupel Franziska (eds.) Ancient Cultural Routes: Past Transportations Infrastructures as a Two-Way Interactions between Society and Environment. Open Archaeology
Book chapters in collected volumes
- 2023: Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca. Introduction. In Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
- 2023: Mazzilli Francesca. A Decade of Religious Networks in the Pre-Roman and Roman periods: An assessment of their Methodology. In Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
- 2021: Mazzilli Francesca and van der Linde Dies. Introduction. In Francesca Mazzilli and Dies van der Linde (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World, pp.21–43. Franz Steiner Verlag
- 2021: Mazzilli Francesca. The Pantheon of the Hauran: A Dialectical Approach. In Francesca Mazzilli and Dies van der Linde (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World, pp.239–74. Franz Steiner Verlag
- 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria. In Aaron W. Irvin (ed.) Identities at the Edges of the Classical World: Exploring Community at the Macro and Micro Level, pp.97–117. Wiley-Blackwell
- 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Transformation and Continuity of Rural Sanctuary of Sī’ in the Hauran (southern Syria) (200 BC–AD 300). In Vladimir D. Mihajlović and Marko A. Janković (eds.) Fragmenting the Roman world: Approaches to Relationalities and Transformations (Series Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge), pp.219–36. Franz Steiner Verlag
- 2019: Mazzilli Francesca. Roman Pottery. In Chris Evans and Gavin Lucas (eds.) Hinterlands (Pt.1): The Archaeology of West Cambridge (including the Darwin Family Estate) and Roman Cambridge Revisited CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region Series (3), pp.339–43. Cambridge Archaeological Unit
- 2019: Going Chris J. (with a contribution by Francesca Mazzilli) (2019) The Romano-British Pottery. In Chris Evans and Gavin Lucas (eds.) Hinterlands (Pt.1): The Archaeology of West Cambridge (including the Darwin Family Estate) and Roman Cambridge Revisited CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region Series (3), pp.104–12. Cambridge Archaeological Unit
Editorials
- 2022: Crawford Katherine A. and Mazzilli Francesca. Challenges in Open Data: A TRAJ Perspective, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 5(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.9899
- 2021: Crawford Katherine A., Goodwin Karl, Mazzilli Francesca, Misic Blanka and Scoppie Sarah U. 2021. Archaeology Lessons From Lockdown, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.8321
Book reviews
- Work-in-progress: Mazzilli Francesca. Hauran VI. D’Aram à Rome. La Syrie du Sud de l’âge du Fer à l’annexion romaine(xiie siècle av. J.-C.-ier siècle apr. J.-C.) American Journal of Archaeology
- 2021: Fulminante Francesca and Mazzilli Francesca. The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places: Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age, Etruscan and Italic Studies, 2021, pp. 000010151520210006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2021-0006
Scientific Reports
- 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Oscar Aldred and Matt Collins (eds.) Northstowe, Phase 2 Cambridgeshire Archaeological Post Excavation Assessment. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report
- 2017: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Matt Collins (eds.) Northstowe, Phase 1 Cambridgeshire Archaeological Post Excavation Assessment (Vol. 3) Area M. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1663
- 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Marcus Brittain and Chris Evans (eds.) Roman and Medieval Archaeology at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1335
- 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Leanne Robinson Zeki (eds.), Fen Drayton Villa Investigations. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1333
- 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Cessford C. (eds.), An Archaeological excavation at St Clements Garden. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No. 1332
- 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Simon Timberlake and David Webb (eds.) West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge, Archaeological Evaluation and monitoring. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No. 1320