Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: umberto.longo@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913836
building: CU003 Lettere e Filosofia
room: 20/3 II piano

Umberto Longo (Rome 1967) is associate professor in Medieval History at Sapienza-University of Rome. From 2016 to 2018 Vice-director of Dipartimento di Storia, culture, religioni. Frome 2018 vice-director of Digilab Centro di ricerche Sapienza-Università di Roma. From 2009 he coordinates the Percorso di eccellenza in Scienze storiche (CdL Scienze storiche, Fac. Lettere e Filosofia). From 2011 he is director of the Master in Digital Heritage. Cultural communication through digital technologies. He is member of the PhD in History, Anthropology, Religions, at Sapienza University of Rome (2006-2011: Doctorate School of University of Bologna and University of Pisa). He is member of the SISMED (The Italian Society of Medieval Historians), from which he has also been entrusted with the duty of Treasurer. He is vice-president of the AISSCA (Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia) and vice-president of the AIRS (Associazione, internazionale di ricerche sui santuari); member of the Società Romana di Storia Patria. He is member of the editorial staff of Reti Medievali, iniziative on-line per gli studi medievistici and of the Dizionario biografico degli italiani dell’Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani.
He is aggregate member of Consiglio direttivo dell'Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo (ISIME)
From 2016 he is Responsible for the monastery of S. Maria di Farfa in the project ͞The cultural landscape of medieval benedictine settlemenst in Italy. Proposal for inclusion in the World Heritage List – UNESCO.͟ The other monastic settlements involved in the project are San Pietro al Monte a Civate, Sacra di San Michele, Montecassino, Subiaco, Farfa, San Vincenzo al Volturno, Sant͛’Angelo in Formis.
From 2001 to 2006 he taught History of Medieval Historiography and Medieval History as a contract teacher at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, and from 2002 to 2006 he taught Palaeography at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sassari. He held seminars for the Medieval History Doctorate at the University of Bologna; seminars in History of Churches at the University “Tor Vergata” of Rome, in Institutions, Societies and Religions from the Late-antiquity to the End of the Middle-Ages at the “Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici” in Turin and at the University of Sassari.
He attended many national and international conferences as a speaker, and took actively part in research projects on Religious History and its diachronic evolution, promoted by Italian and foreign universities.
His studies mainly concern Religious History and Hagiography, under a diachronic perspective and with a peculiar reference to the Middle Ages. More in detail his studies deal with the history of ecclesiastical and monastic institutions and the history of holiness, with a specific interest in the function of hagiographic sources in the framework of the relationships between holiness, institutions and policy. Some of his present researches concern the connections among culture, memory and territory in monastic institutions; the issue of the identity of the texts about holiness and the source production and transmission processes for religious history in the Christian Middle Ages.
His book La Santità Medievale, is a critical study about medieval holiness and the history of the studies on hagiography, and it includes an annotated bibliography of the works on holiness and hagiography. His book: Come angeli in terra. Pier Damiani, la santità e la riforma del secolo XI, Roma Viella 2012 (Sacro/santo, 19), about Pier Damiani, his hagiographic production and the relation between writing and holiness. He published about 150 titles: essays, articles, entries, etc. Constructio monasteri farfensis, a cura di Umberto Longo, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo 2017 (Fonti e Studi farfensi, Fonti ,1);