Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici

Sergio Del Ferro (Rome, 1978) graduated and obtained his Diploma as Specialist and Ph.D. in Medieval Archaeology and Medieval Topography from Sapienza University in Rome; his research is focused on the settlement processes in Southern Lazio during the Middle Ages, funerary archaeology and medieval pottery; he published a monography based on his studies on Southern Lazio with Miscellanea della Società Romana di Storia Patria titled “Castrum Montis Sancti Iohannis. Archeologia e storia di un insediamento medievale” (2012) and another one with Centro di studi internazionali “Giuseppe Ermini” titled “La formazione del confine meridionale del Ducato Romano. Dinamiche di popolamento nel Lazio meridionale tra Tardo antico e Medioevo” (2020).
He's working for the Ministry of Culture as an archaeological functionary; he served at first in the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Territory of L'Aquila and Comuni del Cratere and subsequently in Istituto Autonomo Villa Adriana e Villa d'Este, Tivoli.
In his former job as an archaeological consultant he had the responsibility of several archaeological diggings in Southern and Northern Lazio, among which the excavation site of S. Peter church's cemetery with Progetto Cencelle of Sapienza University. He's been visiting professor of Christian Archaeology at the Pontificia Facoltà Teologica “Teresianum”, Rome, and he's scholar of Christian and Medieval Archaeology at Sapienza University in Rome.