Full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Department of Classics (Scienze dell’Antichità), Sapienza University of Rome.
(01.05.-30.06.2023) – visiting professor of Classical Archaeology at the Winckelmann Institut – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
(16.05.-30.06.2023) – research fellow of Classical Archaeology at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentraldirektion Berlin.
ACADEMIC TITLES
2021 October nominated as Full Professor in Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; the position was declined.
2018 October shortlisted candidate for the final selection of the professorship in Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
2008 Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome.
2003-2008 fixed Termed Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome (D.M. 26.01.2001 “Ritorno degli studiosi italiani impegnati all’estero”).
1998 PhD Classical Archaeology, University of Cologne, Germany (Tutor prof. dr. H. v. Hesberg).
1987 Doctor in Classical Studies (Classics), University of Bologna, Italy.
- 2019 Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute – Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
- 2019 Full Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft. Verband der deutschsprachigen Forscherinnen und Forscher auf dem Gebiete des Griechisch-Römischen Altertums.
- 2020 Associate Scientific Researcher of the Italian Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale - Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPC-CNR).
AWARD 2009: “medaglia di rappresentanza” awarded by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano (Atto SCA/GN 5114-1 Segr. Gen. Pres. Rep.) for the Exhibition-Project Machina. Tecnologia dell’antica Roma, Mostra Museo della Civiltà Romana (22 dez. 2009 – 4 apr. 2010), Roma 2009, under the patronage of the Sapienza University of Rome and the Department of Classics
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Architecture, Sculpture of the Hellenistic/Republican and Roman Imperial period, particularly in Rome, Italy and the Greek East of the Roman Empire. Evergetism and history of mentality in the Second Century AD. The material culture of the Second Sophistic.
- Asia Minor: The sculptural decoration of the Dionysos’Tempel of Hermogenes at Teos; Asia Minor in the Severan age: the case of Hierapolis of Phrygia, with a special focus on sculpture.
- Transformations of the Sacred Space in the Greek East under the Roman Domination. Imperial cult and renaissance of heroic cults in the East of the Roman Empire. Religious associations in the East of the Roman Empire.
- “Nova Urbs Hadrian” Archaeology at Italica.
- Archaeology and Archaeometry of Ancient Textile; Textile culture in Pompeii; Textile culture in Ancient Greece (the necropolis of Eleusis and Attica).
- Domestic Space and Material Culture of the Roman House during the Republican period; Formation of Domestic Culture during the Republican age in Northern Italy (case-study of the Roman Colony of Ariminum).
- Rome beyond frontiers: the Roman empire and the Far East; Hellenistic Court Imagery in the Early Buddhist Art of Gandhara, relationships between Graeco-Roman Imagery and the formation of the Gandharan Art.
- Historiography of Classical Archaeology: History of the excavations and discoveries in the Forum Romanum; Theory of vision in the 2nd half of the 19th century: E. Loewy and S. Freud; A. Riegl and the Biology of Image; Archaeology and Ethnography.
SERVICE ON ACADEMIC AND DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES:
2021– present, Member of the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, Sapienza University of Rome.
2008 – present, Member of the PhD School of Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome.
2015 – present, Member of PhD School of Classical Studies, Departamento de Humanidades – Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahia Blanca (Buenos Aires) Argentina.
2010 - present, Member of the consiglio del Museo dell’Arte Classica, Sapienza University of Rome.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 2019 Founder and Editor-in-chief of the review ASIA MINOR. An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey. Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa – Roma.
Link: http://www.libraweb.net/promoriv.php?chiave=152
- 2020 Associate Editor of the review Analysis Archaeologica. An International Journal of Western Mediterranean Archaeology. Edizioni Quasar Roma.
- 2023 Scientific Committee member of the publication series Urban Space. De Gruyter Verlag Berlin.
2018-2021 Scientific Committee member of publication series collana Archaeologica by the Editore Giorgio Bretschneider.
2018 - present Editorial Committee member, Archeologia Classica, Rivista di Ateneo Sapienza Università di Roma (FASCIA A).
2014-2020 Editorial Committee member, Rivista di Scienze dell’Antichità. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità Sapienza Università di Roma. (FASCIA A).
2014–2020 Editorial Board, Analysis Archaeologica. An International Journal of Western Mediterranean Archaeology, De Gruyter Verlag.
IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
About 90 conferences, lectures, seminars held in the following academic and scientific institutions at national and international level:
- Universities: Berlin-Humboldt, Berlin-Freie, Bern, Bochum, Clermont-Ferrand, Colonia, Columbia University NY, Erfurt, Erlangen, Giessen, Göttingen, Graz, Hanyang (South Corea), Heidelberg, Quaid-i-Azam Islamabad, Kiel, Leipzig, London, Lyon 2, Messina, Monaco, Oxford, Padova, Paris, Pisa Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Università degli Studi, Ravenna, Reading, Regensburg, St. Andrews, Salonicco, Siviglia, Viterbo, Zurigo.
- Research Institutions: Scuola Archeologica di Atene, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Calsberg Academy Copenhagen, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, Center for Advanced Studies Colonia, Reale Istituto Olandese Roma, Accademia Pontificia Roma, Istituto Archeologico Germanico Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, École Française di Atene.
- Museums: Benaki Museum Athens, Palazzo Brazzi, Museo delle Civiltà L. Pigorini, Galleria Uffizi, Musei Vaticani, Museo di Palazzo Massimo, Museo Civico Archeologico Velletri, Nara Giappone, Museo Xanten, Museo Archeologico Lattes.
Scientific network ResearchGate: the scientific publications received about 63,144 reads (26.06.2023). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Galli7