PhD Students (R1 – First stage Reserchers)

PhD in PHILOLOGICAL AND LITERARY, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES

XLI CYCLE - AY 25/26

• Federica Capra: Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Caboni (Università di Sassari); Co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Giulia Murgia (Università di Cagliari). Research project: The Sardinian Eighteenth Century. The Life and Works of Vicente Bacallar y Sanna.
• Rodrigo García Beni: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Tiziana Pontillo (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Frank Köhler (Universität Tübingen). Research project: Indo-Iranian culture and Greek religion: comparative approaches to the study of Indo-European Männerbünde.
• Lingeri Carlotta: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Stefania Lucamante (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Monica Farnetti (Università di Sassari), Prof.ssa Irene Palladini (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Cristina Campo: the unpublished letters and the book "Il libro delle ottanta poetesse".
• Alessia Manca: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Tiziana Pontillo (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Marianna Ferrara (Università La Sapienza). Research project: Domestic and public sociality in the Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa.
• Alessandro Pasini: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Stefania Lucamante (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Fabio Vasarri (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Buzzati and Camus: guilt, absurdity and existentialist fantasy.
• Gianluca Tamburrano: Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Università di Colonia); Co-supervisor: Prof. Felice Stama (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Fragmenta comica adespota apud Plutarchum servata.

XL CYCLE - AY 24/25

• Carmen Ammendola: Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Puggioni (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Francesco Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II). Research project: The Intellectual’s writing desk: the studies of Vincenzio Borghini in the Florence of Cosimo I.
• Pier Luigi Di Cunzolo: Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Università di Colonia); Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Questions and Answers of Eusebius within Nicetas of Heraclea's Chain on the Gospel of Luke. Contextual Analysis of the Literary Genre.
• Krystian Kosowski: Supervisor: Prof.sa Tiziana Pontillo (Università di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Velizar Sadovski (Öesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Iranistik). Research project: Mitra in Vedic Indic and Avestan Old Iranian, between Mäennerbund and establishment: An Indo-Iranian deity between inheritance and innovation, in comparison with other warrior gods (Vrtrahan, Vayu, Sauruua, Rudra, Tistriia and other).
• Luca Melis: Supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Himerius, Orations: a new critical edition with introduction, italian translation and commentary notes.

XXXIX CYCLE - AY 23/24

• Simone Meli: Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Sideralis ratio: Pliny the Elder and the Astronomical Paragraphs of the Naturalis historia (2,1-101). Introduction and commentary.
• Francesco Testa: Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Piras (Università degli Studi di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof. Donato De Gianni (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project ITA/ENG: Fontes Sardiniae Christianae antiquae.
• Alessandra Tonella: Supervisor: Prof.sa Stefania Lucamante (Università degli Studi di Cagliari); Co-supervisor: Prof.sa Marina Guglielmi (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project: Mario Tobino’s writings on psychiatric hospitals: a proposal for a critical and philological analysis through the study of library and hospital papers.
• Domenico Vincenzo Tufano: Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II); Co-supervisor: Prof. Mauro Pala (Università degli Studi di Cagliari). Research project:The English line of the comedians’ journey: influences and echoes of the Commedia dell’Arte on English theatre between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An historical and italian perspective.

PhD in HISTORY, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

XLI CICLO - AA 25/26

• Deidda Valerio: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Usai Nicoletta; Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Todde Eleonora. Research project: At the Origins of Art History in Cagliari: Curricula, Methods, and Disciplinary Perspectives (1900–2000).
• Ezzehouany Imane: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Barbara Onnis; Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Isabella Soi. Research project: China’s Digital Silk Road in North Africa: a case study of Tanger Tech City.
• Floris Carolina: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Ladogana Rita Pamelas; Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Campus Simona. Research project: Digital Narratives and Museology in Sardinia: A Critical Inquiry into Accessibility and Network-Building through the Case of Àndalas de Cultura.
• Manganelli Chiara: Supervisor: Prof. Pignotti Marco; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Mura Salvatore. Research project: For a social history of Italian penitentiaries in the liberal era: life and memory in Buoncammino prison (1900-1915).
• Mereu Francesca: Supervisor: Prof. Cicilloni Riccardo. Research project: Analysis of the relationship between mineral resources and settlements during the "metal ages" in the Sulcis Iglesiente region (south-western Sardinia).
• Scifo Maria Laura: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Deplano Valeria; Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Isabella Soi. Research project: Cold War Journalism: the influence of IFJ and IOJ on the development of "Third World" countries.
• Zappalà Jessica: Supervisor: Prof. Bachis Francesco. Research project: Dwelling and reclaiming contaminated space: ethnography of risk in Ch'iatura, Georgia.
• Zedda Flavia: Supervisor: Prof.ssa Carboni Romina; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Giuman Marco. Research project: Archaeology in Euboea: Cultural and Cultic Dynamics From the so-called 'second colonization' to the Hellenistic period.

XL CYCLE - AY 24/25

• Ilham Mounssif : Supervisor: Prof.sa Barbara Onnis (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Regionalism, Multipolarity, and the Global South.
• Roberta D’Aprile: Supervisor: Prof. A. Floris (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Forms and traditions of contemporary real-life cinema: a case study in Sardinia.
• Giada Donzel: Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Corsale; Co-supervisor: prof.sa Francesca Congiu (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Minorities and Cultural Tourism between China and Vietnam: A Comparative Historical Analysis.
• Giommaria Carboni: Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice (Università di Cagliari). Research project: The Genoese colonies of Cagliari and Naples. Two merchant communities compared through the perspective of the consul of the nation (17th-18th centuries).
• Caterina Ghisu: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rita Pamela Ladogana (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Female presences in contemporary art in Sardinia from the post World War II period to the present day.
• Luca Siri: Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Dal Molin (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Enhancement through digital means of technologically mediated composition and performance.

XXXIX CYCLE - AY 23/24

• Anedda Eleonora: Supervisor: Prof.sa Nicoletta Bazzano (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Between family and power: women of the sardinian aristocracy during the 17th century from the notarial records.
• Arba Silvia: Supervisor: Prof.sa Rossana Martorelli (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Archaeology and digital technologies for the study of hermitages and rock churches as indicators of the population dynamics of Sardinian territory between the 6th and 11th centuries.
• Coni Irene: Supervisor: Prof. Marco Lutzu (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Ethnomusicology and sound archives: visualising multi-part singing in Sardinia.
• D’Andrea Silvia Anna: Supervisor: Prof. Christian Rossi (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Still Only One Earth? Environmental Diplomacy between Détente and the Post-Bipolar World. Origins, Challenges, and Prospects for U.S.-European relations.
• Latini Susanna: Supervisor: Prof. Felice Tiragallo (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Lula and its Space: Pastures, Mines and Gravitational Waves. An Ethnographical Exploration of the Relationship Between the Landscape and its Representation.
• Peris Bolta Laura: Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Tognetti (Università di Cagliari). Research project:Taxation and Economy in the aragonese Sardinia during the 15th Century.
• Pisu Giulia: Supervisor: Prof. Ignazio Macchiarella (Università di Cagliari). Research project: Defining identity through multipart music: the polyphony of women in Corsica.

Abstracts of the research topics are contained in the following pdfs: