Andrew Goldman is a Professor in the Department of History at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He received his BA in Classical Civilizations from Wesleyan University before attending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he completed both his MA and doctorate in Classical Archaeology. Goldman has been a team member of numerous archaeological field projects in Turkey, Sicily, and Cyprus, including fieldwork at the early Neolithic settlement of Çatal Höyuk. While he concentrates primarily upon the investigation of ancient Roman material culture, his academic interests vary widely, from the study of small, mundane objects like carved gemstones and what they can tell us about Roman-period culture, to addressing broader questions which span the topics of war and death in the Roman Republic and Empire, through the examination of battle sites, military camps and cemeteries. During his career he has directed the excavation of a Roman imperial military base at ancient Gordion in central Turkey, and currently he is the field director of the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project (SRAP), an international team investigating the Archaic Greek colony and pre-colonial settlement at ancient Sinope, on the northern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Previously he has been both an undergraduate at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (Spring 1987) and a faculty member for the 1999-2000 academic year. Since that time he has designed and led numerous study abroad programs for the Vergilian Society and his home university, with themes that range from ancient mythology and sanctuaries to following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great. Goldman has published numerous articles about aspects of his fieldwork in scholarly and popular journals such as Anatolian Studies, Expedition, and the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and he is co-author with C. Gates of the forthcoming 3rd edition of Ancient Cities (Routledge, 2023). For the past fifteen years decade he has traveled across the U.S. as a frequent national lecturer for local societies of the Archaeological Institute of America, as well as proudly serving as president of the Spokane Society of the AIA for over a decade.

Jenni Glaser recently defended her PhD dissertation on Lucian and Old Comedy at Bryn Mawr College and currently teaches Classics at Temple University. She has taught intensive summer courses in Rome for many years and conducted research in manuscripts at the Vatican Library and the University of Oxford, where she was recently a visiting researcher. Her interests range widely within Greek and Latin literature. In addition to her work on Old Comedy, Plato, and Imperial Greek, she has published on Aeschylus’ tragedies and presented papers on Pindar, Seneca’s tragedies, Lucretius, and Lucian’s Early Modern reception. Jenni is delighted to return to Italy and share the many ways that the city of Rome brings the words of Greek and Latin literature to life, as well as to share her hard-won expertise in knowing the best gelato spot for every neighborhood in Rome.

Mac Carley is a Roman social historian whose work focuses on ancient drama, identity and religion through the lens of space and spatial theory. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and worked in Rome as a classical tour guide and instructor at the Paideia Institute. Mac is currently completing a PhD in classics at Brown University, where he has taught courses in Latin and ancient Greek as well as ancient history and material culture. Other specific interests include epigraphy, classical reception, and Red Sox baseball.

Cesca LaPasta is a PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. She studied at the Centro in the Spring of 2018 while earning her degree at Cornell University. Before her interdisciplinary interests pulled her towards archaeology, she completed an MA in Latin literature at Berkeley. Cesca’s research focuses on slavery in Ancient Rome and accessing the lived experience of marginalized people in the past through material culture. Recently, she has been exploring the intersection of slavery and security in domestic contexts, which is the subject of her dissertation. This interest grew out of her many years working at Pompeii as part of the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project. Along with her research, she is passionate about bringing challenging conversations into the classroom that inspire students to consider the perspectives of non-elites alongside the fascinating texts and beautiful objects that have traditionally been the focus of a Classical education. Living up to her name, Cesca is looking forward to all the delicious food she’ll be eating while in Italy. You might also catch her practicing her rollerskating in the backyard of the Centro (or out and about in the city if she gets brave enough).

Italian Language Instructor

Barbara Castaldo (Laurea, Università La Sapienza di Roma; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University) is specialized in contemporary Italian literature with a doctoral thesis on Italian author Pier Paolo Pasolini (awarded Premio Pasolini in 2009). Her research interests include law and literature scholarship and comparative literature. She has published articles on contemporary Italian authors (Sandro Veronesi, Marco Lodoli, Ennio Flaiano, Pier Paolo Pasolini), and has appeared in a number of TV documentaries and radio interviews for Rai Storia (Italy), Arte TV (France-Germany), Österreich 1 (Austria). She is currently working on a book on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s legal trials. She has taught courses of Italian language at all levels and has been teaching Italian at ICCS since 2005.

Art History Instructor

Paul Tegmeyer began studying art history as an undergraduate at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he was raised. After moving to Italy, actually l’Aquila, outside Rome, in 1983, he began graduate school at Temple University in Rome, and then Philadelphia. He later entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. His area of specialization is the Italian Renaissance.

He began teaching the Renaissance. to Baroque Rome course at ICCS from 1990-92 and again from 1997 on. He also been teaching at John Cabot University in Rome since 1991. Here he has had the opportunity to expand his repertoire beyond the Italian Renaissance, teaching courses on Ancient and Medieval Rome, Baroque art, as well as monographic courses on Renaissance Rome; Raphael; Michelangelo; Bernini; et al. Since 1997 he has also conducted the Rome Seminar for the Smithsonian Institute.

His research focuses primarily on various aspects of Roman Renaissance art (Raphael, Pollaiuolo, Michelangelo, et al.). He is also now in the early stages of preparing with other colleagues, a “Guide to Renaissance Rome”.

Roberto Nardi gained a degree in archaeology from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1982, and a degree in conservation of archaeological materials and structures at ICR – Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, where he specialized in stone conservation in 1982.

In the same year, he founded the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica (CCA), a private company operating on public commission in the field of conservation of ancient monuments and archaeological sites, including professional training in conservation.

He has directed over 50 projects in 10 countries, on monuments and sites such as the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman Forum, the Roman town of Zeugma, Turkey, the mural paintings of the Madrasa Amiriya in Yemen, and the mosaics of Saint Catherine in Sinai. Roberto has published over 80 technical articles, being co-editor of 7 volumes on conservation.

He is President of the  ICCM, International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics and member of ICOM, International Council of Museums – Committee for Conservation. He was Kress Lecturer at the American Institute of Archaeology for the academic years 2010/2011.