Participation in the Cluster of Excellence

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Religious Landscapes and Environmental Devotion

Research Focus

Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Iron Age and Roman Iberian Peninsula

Roman Britain

Ancient Religion

Cult Places

Iron Age and Roman pottery

Theoretical Roman Archaeology

Landscape

Network Theory

Network Analysis

Ethical Challenges and Current Issues in Archaeology

Gender Role in Current Archaeology

Teaching

082023 Übung: The Religious Life of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

CV

Education

10/2008-07/2014

PhD in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; PhD Thesis Title: Beyond Religion: Cultural exchange and Economy in Syria (northern Phoenicia and Hauran)
10/2007-01/2009

MA (Hons) in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; Grade: Distinction
10/2004-06/2007

BA (Hons) in Archaeology; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham; UK; Grade: 2:1

 

Professional Experience

04/2023-current

Wire (Women in Research) Fellow; Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster
04/2023-current

Guest Lecturer; Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster; Module: Religious Life in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
10/2022-current Visiting Tutor; Royal Holloway University of London; Modules: Introduction to Greek Archaeology, Introduction to Roman Archaeology
10/2022-current

Guest Researcher; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
04/2022-10/2022

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
01/2022-03/2022 Visiting Lecturer; Royal Holloway University of London; Modules: Introduction to Roman Archaeology, From Dig to Digital
08/2020-1/2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
09/2021 Guest Lecturer; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen; Module: Religions in Antiquity
04/2021

Guest Lecturer; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen; Module: The Archaeology of Urban Built Environment in the Roman World
01/2020-07/2020

Member of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; University of Cambridge
04/2015-07/2020

Roman Pottery Specialist; Cambridge Archaeological Unit; Department of Archaeology; University of Cambridge; Tasks: analysing large quantities of Roman pottery, writing scientific reports, and contributing to publications about Roman pottery in Cambridgeshire
 04/2016

Teaching Assistant; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge: Task: teaching field archaeology to undergraduate students on site for three weeks
07/2014-04/2015 Field Archaeologist; Cambridge Archaeological Unit; Department of Archaeology; University of Cambridge
09/2009-06/2012

Teaching Assistant; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham, Modules: Introduction to Archaeology, From Roman Empire to Nation-State
09/2007-08/2012

Archaeological Illustrator; Department of Archaeology; Faculty of Social Science; University of Durham
06/2007-09/2007 Field Archaeologist; Oxford Archaeology South
06/2006-09/2006 Field Archaeologist; Archaeological Services University of Durham

 

Research funding

04/2023-current

WiRe (Women in Research) Fellowship, Institut für Klassische und Christliche Archäologie der Universität Münster
08/2020-10/2022

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Actions, University of Bergen
04/2015-06/2019

Conference Grant from Cambridge Archaeological Unit
04/2010 BANEA Conference Grant
09/2010 Rosemary Cramp Fund, University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant
09/2010

University College Grant, University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant
09/2010

Durham Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), University of Durham PhD Fieldwork Grant
04/2009 Durham Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), University of Durham Workshop Organisation Grant
04/2009

Graduate School University of Durham Workshop Organisation Grant
01/2009 BANEA Conference Grant
10/2008-10/2009 Durham DAS Award PhD tuition fees
10/2004-06/2007

EU Scholarship; Undergraduate tuition fees
06/2005-10/2006

Birley Funding, University of Durham Fieldwork Grant

 

Publications

Journal articles

  • Under Contract: Mazzilli Francesca. Cult Sites and Roman Road Network in the Hauran. Open Archaeology
  • 2022: Mazzilli, Francesca. Roman soldiers in the religious, social, and spatial network of the Hauran. Mythos - Rivista di Storia delle Religioni doi: https://journals.openedition.org/mythos/5802
  • 2021: Wiseman, Rob, Neil, Benjamin, & Mazzilli, Francesca. (2021). Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobbs’s Farm, Cambridgeshire. Britannia 52, pp.119–173 doi:10.1017/S0068113X21000064  
  • 2020: Wright, Alistair, Robinson Zeki, Leanne., Beats, Kate A., Boreham, Steve, Cessford, Craig, Mazzilli, Francesca, Percival, Sarah, Rajkovača, Vida, Robinson Zeki, Iona and Simmons, Ellen Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman at Downham Road, Ely, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 109, pp.41–60
  • 2019: Alberti Marta, Gardner Andrew, Mazzilli Francesca, Wallace Lacey, Watson Sadie, Weekes Jake. Alienation and Redemption: the Praxis of (Roman) Archaeology in Britain, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 2 doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.374
  • 2017: Cessford Craig (with contribution by Martin Allen, Steve Allen, Graham Appleby, Mike Bamforth, David Broomfield, Simon Crowhurt, Val Fryer, Andy Hall, Daid Hall, Adrian Marsden, Francesca Mazzilli, Benjamin Neil, Vida Rajkovaca, Mark Samuel Simon Timberlake, Iana Tyers and Waikato and SUERC laboratories). Riparian Cambridge: Archaeological Excavations near the River Cam at WYNG Gardens, Thompson’s Lane, and Elsewhere, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 107, pp.61–88

 

Monographs

  • 2018: Mazzilli Francesca. Rural Cult centres in the Hauran; Part of a Broader Network of the Near East. Archaeopress

 

Edited Books

  • 2023: Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
  • 2021: Mazzilli Francesca and van der Linde Dies (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World. Franz Steiner Verlag

 

Special Issues

  • Under Contract: Fulminante Francesca, Mazzilli Francesca, Elgeboden-Faupel Franziska (eds.) Ancient Cultural Routes: Past Transportations Infrastructures as a Two-Way Interactions between Society and Environment. Open Archaeology

 

Book chapters in collected volumes

  • 2023: Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca. Introduction. In Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
  • 2023: Mazzilli Francesca. A Decade of Religious Networks in the Pre-Roman and Roman periods: An assessment of their Methodology. In Da Vela Raffaella, Franceschini Mariachiara, Mazzilli Francesca (eds.) Networks as Resources for Ancient Communities. RessourcenKulturen Series. Tübingen University Press
  • 2021: Mazzilli Francesca and van der Linde Dies. Introduction. In Francesca Mazzilli and Dies van der Linde (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World, pp.21–43. Franz Steiner Verlag
  • 2021: Mazzilli Francesca. The Pantheon of the Hauran: A Dialectical Approach. In Francesca Mazzilli and Dies van der Linde (eds.) Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World, pp.239–74. Franz Steiner Verlag
  • 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria. In Aaron W. Irvin (ed.) Identities at the Edges of the Classical World: Exploring Community at the Macro and Micro Level, pp.97–117. Wiley-Blackwell
  • 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Transformation and Continuity of Rural Sanctuary of Sī’ in the Hauran (southern Syria) (200 BC–AD 300). In Vladimir D. Mihajlović and Marko A. Janković (eds.) Fragmenting the Roman world: Approaches to Relationalities and Transformations (Series Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge), pp.219–36. Franz Steiner Verlag
  • 2019: Mazzilli Francesca. Roman Pottery. In Chris Evans and Gavin Lucas (eds.) Hinterlands (Pt.1): The Archaeology of West Cambridge (including the Darwin Family Estate) and Roman Cambridge Revisited CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region Series (3), pp.339–43. Cambridge Archaeological Unit
  • 2019: Going Chris J. (with a contribution by Francesca Mazzilli) (2019) The Romano-British Pottery. In Chris Evans and Gavin Lucas (eds.) Hinterlands (Pt.1): The Archaeology of West Cambridge (including the Darwin Family Estate) and Roman Cambridge Revisited CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region Series (3), pp.104–12. Cambridge Archaeological Unit

 

Editorials

  • 2022: Crawford Katherine A. and Mazzilli Francesca. Challenges in Open Data: A TRAJ Perspective, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 5(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.9899
  • 2021: Crawford Katherine A., Goodwin Karl, Mazzilli Francesca, Misic Blanka and Scoppie Sarah U. 2021. Archaeology Lessons From Lockdown, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.8321

 

Book reviews

  • Work-in-progress: Mazzilli Francesca.  Hauran VI. D’Aram à Rome. La Syrie du Sud de l’âge du Fer à l’annexion romaine(xiie siècle av. J.-C.-ier siècle apr. J.-C.) American Journal of Archaeology
  • 2021: Fulminante Francesca and Mazzilli Francesca. The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places: Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age, Etruscan and Italic Studies, 2021, pp. 000010151520210006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2021-0006

 

Scientific Reports

  • 2020: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Oscar Aldred and Matt Collins (eds.) Northstowe, Phase 2 Cambridgeshire Archaeological Post Excavation Assessment. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report
  • 2017: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Matt Collins (eds.) Northstowe, Phase 1 Cambridgeshire Archaeological Post Excavation Assessment (Vol. 3) Area M. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1663
  • 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Marcus Brittain and Chris Evans (eds.) Roman and Medieval Archaeology at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1335
  • 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Leanne Robinson Zeki (eds.), Fen Drayton Villa Investigations. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No.1333
  • 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Cessford C. (eds.), An Archaeological excavation at St Clements Garden. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No. 1332
  • 2016: Mazzilli Francesca. Romano-British pottery. In Simon Timberlake and David Webb (eds.) West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge, Archaeological Evaluation and monitoring. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No. 1320