You can download my CV using the link below, otherwise you can simply scroll down to see the contents.
Giuseppe Carlo Castellano, Ph.D.
g.castellano@utoronto.ca / +1 646 706 1731
Education
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Doctor of Philosophy in Classics (Classical Archaeology) (August 2019)
Dissertation: A Dialogue in Metal: Silver, Bronze, and Cross-Cultural Currencies in Italy and Sicily. Supervised by A. T. Rabinowitz
Master of Arts in Classics (Classical Archaeology) (May 2016)
Report: Silver and Bronze: Cross-Cultural Currencies in Italy and Sicily. Supervised by A. M. Riggsby
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Bachelor of Arts in Classics (Classical Studies) (May 2009)
Thesis: Collegia and Popular Politics in the Late Roman Republic. Supervised by R. Billows and M. Maiuro
Employment
University of Toronto, St. George (Toronto, Ontario)
Course Instructor (CLA389 Classical Spaces: Sites and Monuments. Urban Settlements in Ancient Italy & Sicily, Winter 2022)
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classics (Toronto, Ontario)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: An economic history of the Roman conquest of Italy, 500–200 BCE (S. Bernard)
University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Classics (Austin, TX)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in The Department of Classics (2020–2021)
Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Post-Doctoral Fellow (2019–2020)
Project: Trapezites: An Ancient Currency Conversion Website (https://trapezites.com/)
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Course Instructor (Introductory Latin 506, Spring 2017)
Teaching Assistant (Intro to Roman Archaeology, Fall 2016; Introduction to Classical Mythology, Fall 2014)
Supplementary Instructor (Intro to Ancient Rome, Spring 2016)
Supplementary Discussion Leader (The History of Rome: The Republic, Spring 2015; The History of Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian War, Fall 2015)
St. Stephen’s School (Rome, Italy)
Substitute Teacher (Latin; Classical Greek and Roman Studies, November 2013)
Print Publications
“Coins in Context: Trade, Monetization, and Cultural Contact in the Tyrrhenian Sea.” AIAC Quaderni. Incontri dell’Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, Volume 2. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2022.
“XRF Analysis of the Volterra Hoard and a Sample of the Earliest Etruscan Coinage,” American Journal of Numismatics (AJN) Volume 33 (2021)
“Texas Treasure: The Renaissance of the Swenson Collection.” Svensk Numismatisk Tidskrift (Swedish Numismatic Journal): Issue 6 (128–132), October 2018; Issue 7 (157–159), November 2018; Issue 8 (179–181), December 2018
“Texas Treasure: The Renaissance of the Swenson Collection.” American Numismatic Society Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 2018
“An Imperial Gem” in E. Fentress, C. Goodson, and M. Maiuro, with M. Andrews and A. Dufton, eds., Villa Magna: An Imperial Estate and its Legacies: Excavations 2006–2010. Rome: British School at Rome, 2016
“Cross-Cultural Currencies: The Litra and Early Sicilian Fractional Coinage,” invited to revise and resubmit at the AJN
Digital Publications
Trapezites: Project Director of https://trapezites.com/, an ancient currency conversion website funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Engaged Scholar Initiative
“Cross-Cultural Currencies: The Litra and Early Sicilian Fractional Silver,” on Pocket Change, the blog of the American Numismatic Society (blog post: http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/castellano/). August 3, 2016
Fellowships, Awards, and Honours
Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship ($96,000 plus benefits awarded by the University of Toronto to fund a two-year postdoctoral project, An economic history of the Roman conquest of Italy, 500-200 BCE, 2021–2023)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Engaged Scholar Initiative Fellowship ($122,000–plus tuition and benefits–awarded on the basis of merit by the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, for public-facing scholarship, interdisciplinary training, dissertation support, and a post-doctoral year, 2017–2020)
Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship ($7,500 awarded for metallurgical analysis of Etruscan coinage in Italy, 2018)
William James Battle Doctoral Fellowship ($ 20,000–plus tuition and benefits–awarded on basis of merit by the Department of Classics, UT Austin, for dissertation research in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018)
David Bruton Jr. Graduate School Fellowship ($1,000 awarded on basis of merit by the Graduate School, UT Austin, 2017)
Professional Development Award ($700 awarded for funding excavations at Istria in the Dobrogea region of Romania by the Centre for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2017)
Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Award (Awarded on basis of merit in order to defray costs of travel to Toronto for the 2017 Joint Annual AIA/SCS conference, Archaeological Institute of America, 2016)
Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize in Classics (Best undergraduate thesis in Classics, Columbia University, Columbia College 2009)
Jean Willard Tatlock Prize in Latin Proficiency (Columbia University, Columbia College 2009)
Dean’s List (Columbia University, Columbia College, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program (Study abroad year at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, 2007–2008)
Invited Lectures
“A Dialogue in Metal: Silver, Bronze, and Cross-Cultural Currencies in Italy and Sicily,” the 2020 Distinguished Haines-Morris Lecture in Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (November 2020)
Papers Presented
“Trapezites: An Ancient Currency Conversion Website” at the 2021 Digital Italy Seminar, part of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded “Connectivity and Competition: Multilingualism in Ancient Italy 800–200 BC” (September 2021)
“Trapezites: An Ancient Currency Conversion Website” at the 2021 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies (AIA/SCS) (January 2021)
“Trapezites: An Ancient Currency Conversion Website” at the 2020 Joint Annual Meeting of the AIA/SCS in Washington, D.C. (January 2020)
“A Plated Ingot from Himera and its Implications for the Monetary Use of Bronze in Classical Sicily” at the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the AIA/SCS in San Diego (January 2019)
“Coins in Context: Trade, Monetization, and Cultural Contact in the Tyrrhenian Sea” at the American Academy at Rome as part of the Incontro (Colloquium) Volti e sfaccettature della moneta antica of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica/International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) (January 2018)
“Coins in Context: Trade, Monetization, and Cultural Contact in the Tyrrhenian Sea” at the 2018 Joint Annual Meeting of the AIA/SCS in Boston (January 2018)
“Cross-Cultural Currencies: The Litra and Early Sicilian Fractional Silver” at the 2017 Joint Annual Meeting of the AIA/SCS in Toronto (January 2017)
Translation
Fonte Aretusa, Parnassos Press
Translator, French to English (Summer 2021)
- Gigandet, “Diderot, Seneca, and the Philosopher’s Virtue” in Philodorema: Essays in Greek and Roman Philosophy in Honour of Phillip Mitsis (D. Konstan and D. Snider, eds.). Parnassos Press–Fonte Aretusa, 2022. 427–443. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2fjwpqn.26
- J–P. Ranger, “Cicero, the Fear of Punishment, and Epicurean Justice” in Philodorema: Essays in Greek and Roman Philosophy in Honour of Phillip Mitsis (D. Konstan and D. Snider, eds.). Parnassos Press–Fonte Aretusa, 2022. 271–284. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2fjwpqn.17
Orco 4D
Translator/editor (Spring 2021)
- Assisted in the translation and copy-editing of the text of a virtual tour of the Tomb of Orcus at Tarquinia, as part of a project under N. Lubtchansky (University of Tours) and the École Française de Rome
Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of Texas at Austin
Translator (Spring 2015)
- Translated scholarly work on Metaponto, a Greek city in Southern Italy, from Italian to English
Archaeological Experience
Horrea Agrippiana (Rome, Italy)
Director of Photogrammetry and Visualization, Signum Vortumni: I Tarquini a Roma (June–July 2018)
- 3D documentation and creation of photogrammetric models of standing architecture, excavation trenches, and finds from the Horrea Agrippiana, between the Roman Forum and the Velabrum, under J. Hopkins
- Instructed field-school students in the basics of photogrammetric modelling
Volubilis (Moulay Idriss, Morocco)
Site Supervisor, UCL-INSAP Archaeological Mission (March–April 2018)
- Supervised excavation of medieval contexts under E. Fentress, C. Fenwick, and H. Limane
- Prepared stratigraphic report for online publication
Histria (Dobrogea, Romania)
Trench Supervisor, Institute of Archaeology Bucharest Excavations, Histria Sector T1 (July–August 2017)
- Supervised and documented excavation in the Sacred Area of the Archaic Greek settlement at Histria, including drawing, photography, and cleaning of finds, under I. Bîrzescu and A. Rabinowitz
Morgantina (Aidone, Sicily, Italy)
Assistant Trench Supervisor, Contrada Agnese Project (June–July 2014)
- Supervised and documented excavation, including drawing, surveying, and photography, under D. Alex Walthall
- Translated Italian to English and vice versa and assisted in dealings with local community and administration
International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) (Rome, Italy)
Data Entry Technician (December 2013–August 2014): Uploaded documents to Fasti Online, the award-winning database
Villa Magna (Anagni, Italy)
Assistant Trench Supervisor (Summer 2009, June 2010) Excavator (July 2007, July 2008)
- Supervised and documented the excavation of late antique barracks at an Imperial villa, under E. Fentress
- Collected, processed, and analysed soil samples for the environmental archaeologist
- Organized and led the team responsible for backfilling the trenches and closing much of the site
Volubilis (Moulay Idriss, Morocco)
Excavator, UCL-INSAP Archaeological Mission (Summer 2004)
- Assisted in the excavation and documentation of medieval Islamic Volubilis, under E. Fentress and H. Limane
Workshops Given
Photogrammetry Seminar for the Horrea Agrippiana Project “Signum Vortumni, i Tarquini a Roma,” given at La Sapienza Università di Roma in collaboration with Rice University, The International Society for Archaeology, Art, and Architecture of Rome (ISAR), and the Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico (ISMA) (July 24, 2018)
Professional Memberships
- Archaeological Institute of America (Regional Coordinator of Central Texas Society 2015–2017)
- American Numismatic Society
- Etruscan Foundation
- Society for Classical Studies
Institutional Service
Research Assistant for “Climate and the Roman Conquest of Italy” (October 1–2, 2021): Assisted S. Bernard with organization of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-funded conference
Graduate Student Representative for the Department of Classics (2016–2017): Responsible for organizing the annual prospective student visit and serving on the admissions committee
Graduate Student Representative to the Assembly of the University of Texas at Austin (2016–2017): Represented the Department of Classics to the official legislative body for graduate students at UT
Battle Committee Member (2014, 2015): Assisted with the organization of the Battle Lecture, UT’s graduate-run lecture series
Training
Photogrammetry Training Workshop for Graduate Students and Field Researchers at the 2018 Mesoamerican Meetings of the Mesoamerican Centre at the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, January 11 2018)
University of Texas Summer Statistics Institute, “Introduction to Bayesian Statistics” (Austin, TX, May 22–25 2017)
Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics, American Numismatic Society (New York, NY, June–July 2016)
Projects
Swenson Digitization Project, University of Texas at Austin
- Assisting the Project Director D. Alex Walthall and his team in digitizing the Swenson Coin Collection
Relevant Computer Skills
Database management, basic website creation and maintenance, Metashape, Archaeological Recording Kit (ARK), R
Languages
Latin: Proficient in reading prose and poetry and translating Latin into English and vice versa
Greek: Proficient in reading prose and poetry and translating into English
Italian: Fluent spoken/written and full reading comprehension
French: Good spoken/written and full reading comprehension
Spanish: Conversational spoken, good reading comprehension
German: Reading comprehension
References
Professor Seth Bernard
seth.bernard@utoronto.ca
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics (+1 4169785477)
Relationship: Postdoctoral Supervisor
Professor Elizabeth Fentress
elizabeth.fentress@gmail.com (+39 3391912936)
Visiting Professor, University College of London
Relationship: Mentor
Professor Adam Rabinowitz
arabinow@utexas.edu (+1 5124710197)
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics; Assistant Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin
Relationship: PhD Supervisor
Professor Rabun Taylor
rmtaylor@austin.utexas.edu (+1 5124710677)
Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor in Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Relationship: PhD Committee Member