Corinna Riva awarded Italian Visiting Professorship
24 April 2023
Corinna Riva (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been been invited to the University of Pavia, Italy, as a Visiting Professor, to contribute to their MA in Mediterranean Archaeology.
Corinna Riva is taking up her and is teaching a course on Etruscan Archaeology as part of their international MA in Mediterranean Archaeology programme. Â
Corinna is the degree programme co-ordinator for the Institute's own MA in Mediterranean Archaeology. Her research encompasses east-west interaction and comparative archaeology of the 1st-millennium BC Mediterranean, colonialism and colonization and social and political identities.
Corinna's recentÌý±¹´Ç±ô³Ü³¾±ð (2020: Bloomsbury), explores the Etruscan language, which long remained wholly indecipherable; the Etruscan landscape; and the 6th-century growth of Etruscan cities and Mediterranean trade.
Corinna was previously awarded a one-year Fellowship at the Max Weber Centre (Kolleg) for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, based at the University of Erfurt (2021-22), situated within the framework of their Distinguished Fellowship Programme and the research group: 'KFG: Religion und Urbanität'. She has also been elected as membro estero (member abroad) of the, the Italian National body that promotes Etruscan archaeology.
Congratulations Corinna!