PhD Students (R1 – First stage Reserchers)

PhD in PHILOLOGICAL AND LITERARY, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES

XL CYCLE - AY 24/25

• Carmen Ammendola: Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Puggioni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Francesco Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II). Research project: The Intellectual’s writing desk: the studies of Vincenzio Borghini in the Florence of Cosimo I.
• Pier Luigi Di Cunzolo: Supervisor: Prof. Jurgen Hammerstaedt (Università Università di Colonia), Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Questions and Answers of Eusebius within Nicetas of Heraclea's Chain on the Gospel of Luke. Contextual Analysis of the Literary Genre.
• Krystian Kosowski: Supervisor: Prof.sa Tiziana Pontillo (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Velizar Sadovski (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut fur Iranistik). Research project: Mitra in Vedic Indic and Avestan Old Iranian, between Maennerbund and establishment: An Indo-Iranian deity between inheritance and innovation, in comparison with other warrior gods (Vrtrahan, Vayu, Sauruua, Rudra, Tistriia and other).
• Luca Melis: Supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Himerius, Orations: a new critical edition with introduction, italian translation and commentary notes.

XXXIX CYCLE - AY 23/24

• Simone Meli: Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Sideralis ratio: Pliny the Elder and the Astronomical Paragraphs of the Naturalis historia (2,1-101). Introduction and commentary.
• Francesco Testa: Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project ITA/ENG: Fontes Sardiniae Christianae antiquae.
• Alessandra Tonella: Supervisor: Prof.sa Stefania Lucamante (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Marina Guglielmi (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Mario Tobino’s writings on psychiatric hospitals: a proposal for a critical and philological analysis through the study of library and hospital papers.
• Domenico Vincenzo Tufano: Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Co-supervisor: Prof. Mauro Pala (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project:The English line of the comedians’ journey: influences and echoes of the Commedia dell’Arte on English theatre between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An historical and italian perspective.

XXXVIII CYCLE - AY 22/23

• Mauro Aresu: Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Francesca Piccioni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Luxurius’ liber epigrammaton: critical edition, translation and commentary.
• Alessandro Giudice: Supervisor: Prof.sa Maria Piera Candotti (University of Pisa), Co-supervisor: Prof. David Brick (University of Michigan), Co-supervisor: Prof. Tiziana Pontillo (University of Cagliari). Research project: The Smrti of Pitamaha in the Medieval Indian Jurisprudence. A Critical Reconstruction of the Pitamahasmrti and a Critical Edition of the Divyasuddhi.
• Lucy McCabe: Supervisor: Prof.sa Stefania Lucamante (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Giuliana Adamo. Research project: Poetry as oxygen: Eco-perception in the poetry of Antonella Anedda and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
• Rita Porqueddu: Supervisor: Prof.sa Giulia Murgia (Università di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Giuseppina Brunetti (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna), Co-supervisor: Prof. Damien de Carné (Université de Lorraine). Research project: Arthurian romance between verse and prose. The Chevalier aux deux épées and its sources.

XXXVII CYCLE - AY 21/22

• Sara Aggazio: Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Vasarri (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Tiphaine Samoyault (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). Research project: Thinking otherness, thinking translation. Poetics of translation in Édouard Glissant et Paul Ricœur.
• Francesco Donato: Supervisor: Prof.sa Patrizia Maria Serra (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Massimiliano Corrado (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II). Research project: The ‘Chiose Cagliaritane’: critical edition and commentary.
• Gianluca Landolfo: Supervisor: Prof. Mauro Pala (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof. Giulio Iacoli (Università di Parma). Research project: Ecology as a Paradigm of Resistance. The Mining Landscape of Sardinia: Environmental Criticism in Abandoned Industrial Areas.
• Aldo Riccardo Medinaceli Lopez: Supervisor: Prof. Riccardo Badini (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Elisabeth Monasterios. Research project: Psychic realism in an unpublished novel by Gamaliel Churata.
• Veronica Piccirillo: Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Università di Colonia), Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Tiziana Drago (Università degli Studi di Bari). Research project: Dioscorides’ Epigrams. Critical edition, translation and commentary.

PhD in HISTORY, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

XL CYCLE - AY 24/25

• Ilham Mounssif : Supervisor: Prof.sa Barbara Onnis (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Regionalism, Multipolarity, and the Global South.
• Roberta D’Aprile: Supervisor: Prof. A. Floris (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Forms and traditions of contemporary real-life cinema: a case study in Sardinia.
• Giada Donzel: Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Corsale, co-tutor prof.sa Francesca Congiu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Minorities and Cultural Tourism between China and Vietnam: A Comparative Historical Analysis.
• Giommaria Carboni: Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The Genoese colonies of Cagliari and Naples. Two merchant communities compared through the perspective of the consul of the nation (17th-18th centuries).
• Caterina Ghisu: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rita Pamela Ladogana (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Female presences in contemporary art in Sardinia from the post World War II period to the present day.
• Luca Siri: Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Dal Molin (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Enhancement through digital means of technologically mediated composition and performance.

XXXIX CYCLE - AY 23/24

• Anedda Eleonora: Supervisor: Prof.sa Nicoletta Bazzano (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Between family and power: women of the sardinian aristocracy during the 17th century from the notarial records.
• Arba Silvia: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rossana Martorelli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Archaeology and digital technologies for the study of hermitages and rock churches as indicators of the population dynamics of Sardinian territory between the 6th and 11th centuries.
• Coni Irene: Supervisor: Prof. Marco Lutzu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Ethnomusicology and sound archives: visualising multi-part singing in Sardinia.
• D’Andrea Silvia Anna: Supervisor: Prof. Christian Rossi (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Still Only One Earth? Environmental Diplomacy between Détente and the Post-Bipolar World. Origins, Challenges, and Prospects for U.S.-European relations.
• Latini Susanna: Supervisor: Prof. Felice Tiragallo (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Lula and its Space: Pastures, Mines and Gravitational Waves. An Ethnographical Exploration of the Relationship Between the Landscape and its Representation.
• Peris Bolta Laura: Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Tognetti (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project:Taxation and Economy in the aragonese Sardinia during the 15th Century.
• Pisu Giulia: Supervisor: Prof. Ignazio Macchiarella (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Defining identity through multipart music: the polyphony of women in Corsica.

XXXVIII CYCLE - AY 22/23

• De Luca Gianna: Supervisor: Marco Giuman (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Morienti cuncta supersunt. Funerary Archaeology and Patterns of Cultural Interaction in Southern Sardinia between Punic and Roman Ages.
• Li Xueqing: Supervisor: Prof.sa. Nicoletta Usai (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Oriental influences on the franciscan art of the late Middle Ages.
• Pinna Francesca: Supervisor: Prof.sa Eleonora Todde (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The Forgotten Archive: governing and shaping document flows in the Depository Archives of the Universities.
• Pisanu Davide: Supervisor: Prof.sa Bianca Fadda (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Sardinia and Montecassino: edition of documents preserved in the archives of the Cassinese abbey (11th-15th centuries).
• Secci Danilo: Supervisor: Prof. Christian Rossi (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: From the Second Cold War to Cold War 3.0. Risk factors and security outlook in the Euroatlantic area.
• Serchisu Marcella: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rossana Martorelli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Sardinian Ceramic Manufacturing Tradition. Production processes and workshops in the postclassical age at the origin of present-day craftsmanship.
• Tacconi Sara: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rossana Martorelli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The so-called “Byzantine” belt buckles as an archaeological and socio-economic indicator for the reconstruction of the events of Sardinia and its cultural interchanges with the Mediterranean between the 6th and 11th centuries.

XXXVII CYCLE - AY 21/22

• Andreotti Francesco: Supervisor: prof. Floris Antioco (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The role of documentary filmmaking in film education in Sardinia.
• Astori Filippo: Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: From Sardinia to the Indian Ocean: coral in Hispano-Genovese global exchange networks (secc. XVI-XVIII).
• Maccioni Carlo: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rita Pamela Ladogana (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The digital catalog of works of art at the University of Cagliari (19th - 21st centuries).
• Mameli Francesco: Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Calogero Pinna (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Hydrogeological industrial risk and anthropization: study of a model for the creation of an ‘integrated safeguard system’ for cultural and landscape heritage applicable to the context of the Santa Gilla lagoon.
• Mohammadi Mehdi: Supervisor: Prof. Diego Cavallotti (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Grapich Cinema. The italian Baroque as a model of the Horror genre in Cinema.
• Onnis Benedetta: Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Melis (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) e prof. Francesco Bachis (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Diasporas in Lebanon. Women's traditional handicraft as a space of action and cultural narrative.
• Pinelli Laura: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rossana Martorelli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: The so-called “rough” pottery in Sardinia from Late Antiquity to the end of the Byzantine Age as a productive, economic and social indicator in the Mediterranean.
• Schivo Beatrice: Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Slaves. A digital platform for the history of slavery in the Kingdom of Sardinia (17th-18th centuries).

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