Univ.-Prof. Basema Hamarneh, PhD
Professur für Spätantike und Frühchristliche Archäologie an der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Curriculum Vitae:
born in 1965 in Moscow, Russia
1989 Master of Arts in History, Moscow State University Lomonosov
1995 PhD in Archaeology and Postclassical Antiquity (3rd-9th century), University of Rome La Sapienza
1991-1994 Specialization in Christian Archaeology, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome
1991-1994 Scholarship fellow of the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome
since 1991 participates and directs archaeological excavations and surveys in Italy and Jordan on sites of the Late Roman, Early Christian/Byzantine and Islamic periods
2000 PhD in Christian Archaeology, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome
1998-2005; 2009-2011 Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Archaeology, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Milano, Italy
2005-2009 Professor of Christian and Medieval Archaeology, Department of Mediterranean Archaeology, Enna University, Italy
since 2011 Member Corrispondant of AIEMA, Association internationale pour l’Etude de la Mosaïque antique (area of Jordan)
2012-2014 Professor (adjunct professor), Roman History and Byzantine Civilization, Bergamo University, Italy
since 2012 member of the research project "Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: Population Dynamics and Artistic Expression", Augustus Foundation and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), British Institute, Amman
2010-2017 teaches Arabic Language, University of Milan
2012 National Habilitation and award of Associated Professor in Archaeology 10/A1- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research
since 2012 Member of the Associazione Italiana Studi Bizantini, AISB
2013 Grant for the research project "Rapporto tra cultura scritta e cultura visiva nell'elaborazione bizantina della "Santa Follia" di Andrea Salos X secolo", Bergamo University
since July 2017 Professor of Late Antique and Early Christian Archaeology, Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Urban and Rural settlements in the Late Antique and Early Christian periods
* Christianisation of Roman Castra
* Archaeology and artistic expressions of the Late antique, Early Christian/Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
* Early Christian monuments of Rome and broadly of the Orbis Christianus Antiquus
* Monastic and religious identities
* Hagiography applied to topographic studies