Claudia Minniti is an Professore associato in the disciplinary field Methodology of Archaeological Research (ARCH/01 G) at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Antiquity Sciences, where she teach Archeozoologia, Archaeozoology, Metodologia della ricerca archeozoologica, Storia della domesticazione animale since 2023. Previously, she was Professore associato at the University of Salento (Lecce), Department of Cultural Heritage.
From 2019 to2023 she served as Vice-President of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Cultural Heritage, and from 2017 to 2019 she coordinated tutoring and training activities for students and led a national project for tutoring and guidance (POT “Plans for Orientation and Tutoring 2017–2018”) at the University of Salento. Between 2018 and 2023 she was a member of the Doctoral Board in Cultural Heritage Sciences at the University of Salento.
Between 2015 and 2018 she was a tenure-track researcher (RTDB) at the University of Salento, Department of Cultural Heritage; from 2010 to 2012 she was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology. She earned her PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome in 2007.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Archaeozoology (AIAZ).
She is Principal Investigator of one research unit within the project PRIN2020-HERDS. Animal Husbandry and its Economic Role in the Development of Central Mediterranean Protohistoric Societies, and of the project PRIN2022 – Humans & Animals @ Tarquinia & Gravisca.
Between 2023 and 2024 she was Co-Principal Investigator of the project Equid-human interactions in Medieval Rome, funded by IPERION HS, EU H2020, GA 871034.
She has also participated inmseveral other national and international research projects (PRIN 2007, 2004 and 2003; the LAND-LAB project – Multimedia Laboratory for Research, Training and Communication on Archaeological Landscapes, 2004–05; The Archaeology of Pig Domestication and Husbandry,
Arts and Humanities Research Board – UK; The Stonehenge Riverside Project, Arts and Humanities Research Council – UK; the Bisenzio Project, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie – Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Mainz, Germany).
Her research focuses on the study of animal remains from archaeological contexts in Italy and abroad (United Kingdom, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq), covering a wide chronological range from the Neolithic (6th millennium BC) to the post-medieval period. She collaborates with numerous universities (Tor Vergata – Rome, Pisa, University of Milan – La Statale, Ca’ Foscari– Venice, Udine), national institutes (Sovrintendenza Capitolina, Archaeological Park of the
Colosseum, Superintendence for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Basilicata), and international research institutes (Royal Danish Academy, Academy of Denmark – Japan Institute of Paleological Studies in Kyoto, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences).
To date, her work has resulted in more than 150 publications and numerous contributions to national conferences and international congresses.