Federica Gatto
Federica Gatto is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” from August 2024. In the fall term of 2024, she will also be chargé de cours in Ancient History at the Institut catholique de Paris.
Her research interests mainly concern of Landscape Archaeology, Latin Epigraphy and Roman polytheism.
She obtained her bachelor's degree in Scienze dei Beni Archeologici (2011) and her master's degree in Archeologia (2014) at the Università degli Studi di Siena. Federica discussed her PhD at the Universidad de Cantabria (2019) with a thesis delving into the cult of the Roman goddess Bona Dea.
Between 2019 and 2023, Federica worked at Université catholique de Louvain on the divine forces attested at mines and quarries of the western provinces of the Roman Empire, with the aim to associate their competences with the activities of the work-chain.
Federica has been a visiting student and scholar at various European universities and research institutes. After joining the LLP-Erasmus project at the Université Paris X Nanterre-La Défense, she stayed at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, at the Institut du monde antique et byzantin (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland), at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité Classique (Geneva), at the Eisenbibliothek (Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen), and lastly at the Academia Belgica in Rome.
In the frame of the SlaVEgent project she is in charge of the census and analysis of the inscription mentioning enslaved people working in the regions of Northern Italy.