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Maria Emilia Masci

Archaeologist official

Restoration department: ceramic, plastic, and glass materialsDirector

Restoration department: stone materialsDeputy director

Archaeological Heritage ServiceDeputy director

Cultural Promotion ServiceInterim Director

LibraryDirector

mariaemilia.masci@cultura.gov.it

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An archaeologist, she has been an officer at the Ministry of Culture since 2017 and has worked since 2021 at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence (OPD) as deputy head of the Cross-departmental Archaeological Heritage Service, deputy head of the Stone Materials Conservation Department, head of the Library and acting head of Cultural Promotion.

Alongside these roles, since the 2021–22 academic year she has taught at the OPD School of Advanced Training and Studies, as course leader in Greek and Roman Archaeology (L-ANT/07) and co-lecturer with the course leader in Museology (L-ART/04).

She graduated in Classical Studies with an archaeological specialisation in 1999 from the University of Florence, and in 2003 obtained a PhD in “Archaeology of Magna Graecia” from the University Federico II of Naples. In 2014 she was awarded the National Scientific Qualification as a second-tier university lecturer in the scientific field 10/A1 – Archaeology. She is the author of two monographs, around ten contributions to handbooks and articles in peer-reviewed journals, approximately thirty papers published in proceedings of national and international conferences, and various online scholarly publications.

Her research interests include the history of archaeology and classical archaeology — in particular Greek and Italic pottery, Vesuvian archaeology and Magna Graecia — as well as the history of collecting and restoration. Since 1999 she has conducted archival research on the collecting of figured pottery and on the reception of Pompeian antiquities. These interests have led her to explore digital applications for the cataloguing, management and communication of complex data, and to develop specific expertise in Digital Libraries and knowledge organisation for cultural digital resources.

From 2002 to 2014 she carried out research within national and European projects at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (SNS) and at other institutions in Italy and abroad, working on digital humanities, the history of archaeology, the history of collecting, and the enhancement and communication of cultural heritage. From 2005 she also served as scientific consultant to the Ministry of Culture (MiC) and its central institutes — including the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) — on various digital humanities projects on behalf of the SNS. In 2014 she was selected by the Scholars Program selection committee of the Getty Research Institute for a Getty Residential Scholar Grant. In July 2009 and May–June 2011 she was a visiting researcher (*chercheur invité*) at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris (INHA).

She has taught and continues to teach at university and postgraduate level, holding various teaching appointments in seminars in the archaeological field and on master’s programmes in cultural heritage economics (University of Udine, Scuola Superiore di Catania, UNESCO, Scuola Normale Superiore, Opificio delle Pietre Dure and others).

For the MiC she has been a member of the Working Group on Metadata for Cultural Heritage (May 2012 – August 2014), a member of the Italian working group for the European project DC-NET (December 2011 – August 2014), a member of the monitoring group for the Cultura Italia Portal and the MuseiD-Italia project (July 2005 – August 2014), a member of the experts panel of working group 4 “European Cultural Content Interoperability Framework” of the European project MINERVA eC (June 2007 – September 2008), a member of the working group for drafting the technical guidelines on the digitisation of cultural heritage within the European project MINERVA (November 2004 – January 2005), and a member of the Italian technical group for the European project MICHAEL (June 2004 – May 2007).

Having won the MiBACT competition for the recruitment of 500 officers (Official Gazette, 4th Special Series no. 41, 24 May 2016), she was appointed as an archaeologist officer in December 2017 and assigned to the Polo Museale dell’Abruzzo, where she worked at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale “La Civitella” in Chieti until March 2021. From January 2020 she combined this role with a collaboration with the OPD in Florence. In March 2021 she was transferred as an archaeologist officer to the OPD, where she currently works.