Tommaso BRUSASCA

I was born in Casale Monferrato (Italy) and I completed my university studies in Pisa. I graduated (BA, 110/110 cum laude) in Classics in 2022 with Piergiorgio Borbone, with a thesis in Hebrew epigraphy, on the first amulet of Arslan Taş. On 06/09/2024 I attained a MA in Near Eastern Studies (110/110 cum laude), with a thesis in Semitic philology consisting of the edition and commentary of the Ancient South Arabian inscriptions of Al-Miʿsāl (ancient Waʿlān), under the supervision of Giovanni Mazzini and Alessia Prioletta. At the same time, between 2019 and 2024, I completed the ordinary course at the Scuola Normale Superiore. At the end of it, I attained a Second-Level University Master ("Diploma di Licenza", 100/100 cum laude) in Ancient History and Classical Philology, discussing, on 07/03/2025, a thesis in History of Religions on the concept of "ḥērem" in the Hebrew and Sabaic sources, under the supervision of Corinne Bonnet.

In winter 2023 I worked as an Assistant Researcher with the University of Oxford within the project World History of Rituals, where I studied the socio-political value of rituals in the Ugaritic and Phoenician worlds and in pre-exile Judaism. Since 2025, I have been Assistant to the chair of Hebrew in the University of Pisa.

On 07/19/2025 I was awarded the Djamel Eddine Kouloughli prize as best Arabic student by the Université d'Été des Langues de l'Orient, organized by the University of Lausanne.

My research interests concern Semitic linguistics and epigraphy, with a focus on Northwest Semitic (Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic) and Ancient South Arabian. I also study historical and religious questions in the Syro-Palestinian area and in pre-Islamic Arabia.

Since 10/15/2025, I have been the PhD representative in the PhD programme "Scienze dell'Antichità" (Ancient history, Archaeology and Classics). On 03/16/2026, I have been elected as President of the Assembly of all PhD representatives of Università Ca' Foscari.