Silvia NEGRO

_________Current Position 

2025 Postdoctoral fellow at SAIA - Italian Archaeological School at Athens. https://unive.academia.edu/SilviaNegro

Silvia Negro is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (SAIA), where the 2025 SAIA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship enables her to continue her research in Greek History and Attic Epigraphy, with a particular focus on the deme of Halai Aixonides, the subject of the monograph that constitutes her ongoing project.

In Jan. 2025 she earned her PhD in Ancient Studies (cum laude and Doctor Europaeus Label) from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in joint collaboration with the Universities of Udine and Trieste, carried out under the supervision of Professors M. Zunino and S. De Vido. Her doctoral dissertation in Ancient History and Epigraphy was entitled “Deme Life in Attica and the Deme of Halai Aixonides”.

Her academic training began at the University of Turin, where she obtained her BA in Classics (2013) and her MA in Archaeology and Ancient History (2016, with distinction), with a thesis in Greek Epigraphy on the Athenian cleruchy of Skyros, supervised by Professors E. Culasso and D. Marchiandi. She subsequently earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeological Heritage (2019) at the School of Specialization in Matera, with a dissertation in Classical Archaeology (Prof. M.Ch. Monaco). Her archaeological fieldwork experience includes excavations in Italy (Siris-Herakleia, Isola del Cantone, Costigliole di Saluzzo), as well as a curatorial traineeship at the Egyptian Museum of Turin (CROMA Project – reorganization of the digital photographic archive for research purposes).

She is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the ELA Project – Epigraphic Landscape of Athens (Fellowship 2025) and a contributor to Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO). In 2022 she has been involved in the international research group TeMAES – Territoires multiples: agentivité et environnements socio-économiques. Since 2022 she also has been part of the editorial board of the academic journal Axon. Iscrizioni storiche greche, and since 2021 an active member of the Greek Epigraphy Laboratory at Ca’ Foscari University.

On the international level, she was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher in Canada at the University of Ottawa (VRS Programme), and she also conducted research stays in Greece, at both the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Italian Archaeological School at Athens.

In the academic year 2023/24 she was Senior Teaching Assistant for the Greek History courses at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Prof. C. Antonetti and Prof. S. De Vido), where she delivered lectures and tutorials for undergraduate students. Alongside her academic career, prior to her PhD she also gained experience as a secondary school teacher and completed a Master’s degree in the Didactics of Literary Studies (2020/21).

She has delivered talks and lectures at national and international conferences and workshops, and has published on topics related to Attic demes and Athenian Epigraphy.