Cinzia Perlingieri

Cinzia Perlingieri received her M.A. in Classic Archaeology and History of Arts from the University of Naples, and her PhD in Archaeology from the same institution. Her archaeological career in northern Africa began in 1989. She has excavated in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, and her dissertation was on her research at Aksum, Ethiopia. From 1992 – 2005, she was one of the field director for the Bieta Giyorgis (Aksum, Ethiopia), Italian-American Joint Archaeological Expedition. Dr. Perlingieri has published articles in many publications and has presented papers at conferences all over Europe and the United States. She has taught at the University of Naples and University of Turin in Italy, the Art Center in Bahrein, and the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a Visiting Scholar and Director of Research at the Center for Digital Archaeology. She is also the co-director of the archaeological project “Southern Red Sea Archaeology Histories” in the Yeha Region, Ethiopia.