Staff and Fellows
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Staff
Director: Chris Wickham, BA DPhil FBA
Professor Chris Wickham is the BSR’s current Director, and will hold this position until July 2021. Professor Wickham is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History (Emeritus) and a fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy. He is a former Head of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford and also emeritus professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include Italian history to 1250, comparative European, Mediterranean and global medieval history, social history and archaeology. Chris has previously been Chair of Publications for the BSR (1995-2000), as well as a member of its Council (1995-2000 and 2006-9).
Assistant Director for Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Harriet O’Neill, MA PhD
Harriet undertook her BA in Modern History at the University of Oxford and holds MAs in History of Art (UCL) and Art Museum and Gallery Studies (Newcastle). For her PhD entitled ‘Reframing the Italian Renaissance at the National Gallery’ she was based at UCL and the National Gallery, London. She has held curatorial positions at the National Gallery and Royal Holloway, and previously worked as specialist in frames and nineteenth- and twentieth-century art at Christie’s and Bonhams auctioneers. Harriet has published articles on frames and framing in the literal and the abstract, and will focus her research on Roman palace frames and hybrid objects while at the BSR. She is an Honorary Research Associate of the School of Modern Languages at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Cary Fellow: Robert Coates-Stephens, BA PhD
Robert gained his degree and Ph.D. in archaeology at University College London (1988-95). He first came to the BSR as Rome Scholar in 1995-6 and has been Cary Fellow since 2002. He directs the undergraduate Ancient Rome Summer School and postgraduate City of Rome courses. In addition to the topography, history, art and archaeology of the city of Rome, his research centres on the Antique in the Early Middle Ages. He is the author of Porta Maggiore: Monument and Landscape (2004)and Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey (2009), and is a Socio Corrispondente of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia.
Archaeology Officer: Stephen Kay, MSc
Stephen worked as a geophysical researcher before being awarded the Molly Cotton Fellowship in 2012. In 2015 he took on the role as the BSR Archaeology Officer, responsible for the daily running of the department and fieldwork projects. He graduated in Archaeology at the University of Durham and then specialised in Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton. He has managed surveys and projects throughout Italy and the Mediterranean and has built up a wide experience of landscape archaeology. He currently co-directs the BSR’s 3-year research project at Pompeii, Porta Nola Necropolis. He has recently undertaken excavations at Segni (together with the Museo Comunale) and Cittareale (Lazio), now both being prepared for full publication.
Geophysics Researcher: Elena Pomar
Elena joined the archaeology department in 2018 after completing her Masters at the University of Siena, during which time she had a three-month internship at the BSR.
Visual Art Residency and Programme Curator: Marta Pellerini, MA
Marta joined the BSR in 2018. She studied the history of contemporary art at Sapienza University in Rome.
Librarian and Deputy Director: Valerie Scott, BA
Valerie joined the BSR as Assistant Librarian in 1981, becoming Librarian in 1988.
Deputy Librarian: Beatrice Gelosia
Beatrice has been associated with the BSR since 1981, becoming full-time in 1989.
Library Assistants: Francesca De Riso, BA; Francesca Deli
Francesca De Riso joined the BSR in 1998 and is in charge of the management of periodicals.
Francesca Deli joined the BSR in 2004, becoming full-time in 2006.
Archivist: Alessandra Giovenco, MA
Alessandra joined the BSR in 1997 and has managed the Archive since 2002.
Finance Manager: Nick Hodgson, ACA
Nick moved to Rome and joined the BSR in 2016 after working in France, the UK and Channel Islands.
Accounts Clerk: Isabella Gelosia
Isabella has been with the BSR since 1980 and has served under seven Directors so far.
Director’s Executive Assistant and HR Officer: Stefania Peterlini
Stefania has been working with the BSR in various capacities since 2001, including managing special permits and taught courses. She now supports the work of the Director and coordinates HR functions.
Residence and Estate Manager: Christine Martin, BSc
Christine joined us in 2012 and is responsible for the residence, accommodation and event planning at the BSR.
Administrative Assistant: Residence & Communications: Alyssa Civitello, MA
Alyssa joined the BSR in 2019 and works across residence, events and communications.
Registrar: Gill Clark, BA PhD
Gill joined the BSR staff in March 1991, but her relationship with the BSR began as a Rome Scholar in 1980-1 followed by Rome Fellow in 1987-9. Gill now leads our London office.
Administrative Assistant (London office): Zoe Firth, MA
Zoe joined the BSR’s London office in March 2020, having previously spent time at the BSR on the City of Rome MA course.
Impact and Engagement Officer Bryony Smith, MA
Bryony joined the BSR’s London office in November 2020, and works on the development of the alumni network, the Ambassadors Scheme and UK events.
Development Officer e-mail
Domestic Bursar: Renato Parente
Maintenance Officer: Fulvio Astolfi
Cleaning staff: Donatella Astolfi & Alba Coratti
Donatella began part-time in 2001 becoming full-time in 2003, cleaning the library and BSR public spaces.
Alba has worked at the BSR since 1993 and currently looks after the north wing studios and study bedrooms in the east wing.
Cooks: Luca Albanese, Dharma Wijesiriwardana
Residence Assistant & IT Support: Giuseppe Pellegrino
Peppe started working at the BSR in 1999. Since 2002 he has been responsible also for the technical equipment of the Sainsbury Lecture Theatre.
Residence Assistant: Antonio Palmieri
Research Fellows of the British School at Rome
Joan Barclay Lloyd
The architecture and decoration of medieval churches and monasteries in Rome, c. 1050-c. 1320
Maria Cristina Biella
Giving voice to an ancient city: the case of Falerii Veteres
Raffaella Bucolo
The Antiquities Collection of the Villa Wolkonsky in Rome
Roberta Cascino
Trade and commerce in Rome’s hinterland in the early and middle Republican period: material culture approaches
Patrizia Cavazzini
The art market and display of works of art in Roman houses in seventeenth-century Rome; artists at the papal court
Francesco Maria Cifarelli
Archaeology of Lazio and the suburbium of Rome
Roberto Cobianchi
‘Lo temperato uso delle cose’. The patronage of the Franciscan Observance in Renaissance Italy
Maria Giuseppina Di Monte
Theory and history of contemporary art
Elizabeth Fentress
Roman archaeology
Stefania Gerevini
‘Liaisons dangereuses’: art, identity and conflict in medieval Venice, Genoa and the eastern Mediterranean
Inge Lyse Hansen
Role-playing and role-models in Roman imperial art; late Roman funerary art; provincial identity and patronage in the Greek east
Andrew Hopkins
Architectural patronage between Venice and Rome in the seventeenth century
Clare Hornsby
Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), ‘Father of the Grand Tour’: his relations with the British in the art market and in diplomacy in 18th century Rome
David Knipp
The Presence of Syrian Greeks at S. Maria dell’Ammiraglio, Palermo 1143–93
Simon Martin
From peasants into sportsmen: sport and the development of modern Italy
Guido Petruccioli
The collecting and trade of antiquities in late nineteenth- and early twentienth-century Rome: the John Marshall and Edward Perry Warren Archives
Renato Sebastiani
The archaeology of Portus
Thomas True
The cultural and urban history of the Papal States (1506–1631)
Maurice Whitehead
The archives of the Venerable English College
Karin Wolfe
The Venetian painter Francesco Trevisani
Honorary Fellows of the British School at Rome
Professor Gilda Bartoloni
Professor Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
Dr Angelo Bottini
Mr Peter Brown CBE
Professor Andrea Carandini
Professor Filippo Coarelli
Professor Francesco D’Andria
Professor Stefano De Caro
Professor Paolo Delogu
Lady Egerton
Professor Emanuela Fabbricotti
Professor Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai
Professor Anna Gallina Zevi
Professor Pier Giovanni Guzzo
Mr Robert Jackson
Professor Adriano La Regina
Professor Eugenio La Rocca
Dr Tersilio Leggio
Professor Paolo Liverani
Professor David Marshall
Avv. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Professor Massimo Osanna
Professor John Osborne
Dr David Woodley Packard
Professor Paola Pelagatti
Professor Lorenzo Quilici
Professor Stefania Quilici Gigli
Dr Anna Maria Reggiani
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG
Mr Michael Stillwell
Professor Fausto Zevi
Slideshow images by: Antonio Palmieri; Natalie Arrowsmith; Natalie Arrowsmith; Natalie Arrowsmith; Peter Campbell.