Institute welcomes two new Marie Curie Research Fellows
2 February 2012
Welcome to Paolo Del Vesco and Gianluca Miniaci, EU Marie Curie-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellows, who joined the Institute last month.
Paolo and Gianluca will undertake research at the Institute and UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on two-year European-funded projects, working with Stephen Quirke.
The EU Framework 7 People programme provides support for researcher mobility and career development, both for researchers inside the European Union and internationally, helping them to build their skills and competencies throughout their careers.
Paolo's research project entitled 'Moving Archaeological Knowledge Away from Neo-Colonialism' will specifically involve the decolonisation of Egyptology by giving local inhabitants a primary role in developing and disseminating archaeological knowledge and proposing new approaches for reconnecting local inhabitants with their own expropriated pasts.
Gianluca's research on 'Egyptian Periodisation-Object Categories as Historical Signatures' will provide a basis for new interpretative models of material cultural transmission and social transformation in stratified societies, using Bronze Age Egypt as a case study.
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is one of the very few places in the world that is actively pursuing research on a truly global scale and has an outstanding record training doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
