Bice Peruzzi

Bice Peruzzi is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archeology writing a dissertation on burial customs in Apulia. She holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of Perugia anda M.A in Classical Archaeologyfrom the University of Padua.
She has done field work in Turkey (Gordion), Greece (Corinth) and especially in Italy (Etruria, Pompeii, and various sites in Southern Italy).
Her professional interests include ancient pottery technology, iconography, the archaeology of southern Italy, Etruscology, funerary ideology, the creation of social identity in ancient societies, and cultural heritage policy.

B.A.: Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, 2003 (Classics)

M.A.: Università degli Studi di Padova Padova, Italy, 2009 (Classical Archaeology)

M.A.: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2010 (Classics)

Regular Member: American School of Classical Studies at Athens Athens, Greece, 2011 (Greek History and Archaeology)

Archaeology of the Italian peninsula, in particular Apulia and Etruria.

Burial customs and society.

Ceramic studies: production, uses, iconography and meanings of pottery found in private and public contexts.

Peer Reviewed Conference/Workshop Proceedings

“La Tomba del Cardinale,”OstrakaXVI n.1 2007, pp. 105-114

Invited Presentations

Bice Peruzzi (05-2010. ) Life in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire . Roman Archaeology Course, University of Cincinnati.

Bice Peruzzi (04-2010. ) Pompeii in life and Death, .Roman Archaeology Course, University of Cincinnati.

Poster Presentations

Bice Peruzzi (10-2012. ) “The (d)evolution of grave good assemblages in Peucetia in the 3rd century” .Beyond Vagnari, new themes in the study of south Italy in the Roman period International colloquium, University of Edinburgh. . Conference. .

Bice Peruzzi, Amanda Reiterman (01-2012. ) “Learning from their mistakes: try-pieces, wasters and other evidence for ceramic production from the Potters’ Quarter at Corinth” .2012 AIA Meeting, Philadelphia. .

Paper Presentations

Bice Peruzzi (01-2013. ) The role of Attic imports in Apulian Grave good assemblages .Seattle.

Bice Peruzzi (03-2012. ) Eggs in a drinking cup: Greek shapes and Italic identities in Apulian funerary contexts .University of Missouri.

Bice Peruzzi (10-2009. ) Gatekeepers, Ferrymen, and 'Angels of Death:' Stories of Demons from the Etruscan Hellenistic Otherworld .University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bice Peruzzi (04-2009. ) Volute kraters in Apulian funerary contexts .University of Minnesota, Minneaopoli.

Bice Peruzzi (10-2008. ) ’Abandon every hope, ye who enter here’: demons and landscape of the Etruscan Hellenistic Otherworld .Penn State University.

Event Organized

Classics Goes Green, Graduate Student Conference 04-20-2012 04-22-2012 University of Cincinnati

07-2012 -08-2012 URC Graduate Student Research fellowship Status:Recipient Level:University Type:Fellowship

2010 -2011 ASCSA James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship Status:Recipient Level:National Type:Fellowship

2012 -2012 AIA Best Poster, 1st Runner up Status:Recipient Level:Professional Org. Type:Monetary

06-2010 -08-2010 Cedric Boulter Memorial Fellowship Status:Recipient Level:Department Type:Fellowship