2012
Assistant Professor, Florida State University

2012     
Co-Director, The Cosa Excavations

2010 – 2012
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University

2006     
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

2001     
MA, Bryn Mawr College

How did a Roman bath function and serve a community at a waterless site? How did its engineering exploit the only available potential water sources, those provided by underground cisterns and reservoirs, and what constraints did such a system impose on its use? These are the questions my project on Cosa addresses. The 2013 – 15 exploration of subterranean and surface features identified the mechanisms that made possible the provision and circulation of water within the bath complex. Although this community was disadvantaged by the lack of springs and aqueducts, from the archaeological evidence obtained thus far, it nevertheless seems to have successfully operated its baths for several centuries through a rational, sensible usage of water. The negotiation between the ecological framework and the mechanical/architectural and administrative solutions adopted at Cosa takes center stage in this research, which promises to make a significant scholarly contribution to the current climate of burgeoning interest in the history of Roman baths and their built environment.

Forthcoming     
A. De Giorgi, Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest (Cambridge).

A. De Giorgi, "Globalization and Local Identities: Stories from Syria", in: J. Yoo/A. Zerbini (Eds.), Migration, Diaspora and Identity in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London).

2015     
A. De Giorgi, "The View from Daphne", in: J. Poblome (Ed.), The Space Between: Current Investigations into Roman Suburbia (JRA Suppl.; 2015).

A. De Giorgi, "Scavi di Cosa: la Stagione 2014", in: Notiziario Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 10 (2015) 1-10.

A. De Giorgi, "Scavi a Cosa: il complesso termale", in: Notiziario Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 9 (2015) 529-532.

A. De Giorgi, "Between Continuity and Change: Northern Pisidia through Classical and Late Antiquity", in: IstMitt 64 (2015) 55-71.