The main research fields promoted by the PhD programme are:
• Genesis and development of settlements and cities
• Dynamics of territories occupation and economic and cross-cultural interactions
• Conceptual frameworks: social complexity and ideologies (analysis of theological, philosophical, political, juridical aspects concerning institutions and mobility of social structures)
• Symbolic relationship between memory objects
• Events, to be understood as a process of constructive and reconstructive memory, which involves the relationship between memory and history
• Literary or philosophical texts, or schools of thought, which are relevant for intellectual history and intercultural dialogue.
Faculty research areas
Archaeology: Prehistory to the Middle Ages, Cultural Anthropology, Early Modern History, Epigraphy, Ethnography, Etruscology, Greek History, Late Antiquity, Medieval History, Memory studies, Oriental Studies, Papyrology, Roman History, Settlement History, Urban Archaeology.