Program Director: Max Cardillo
Teaches architectural design, historic preservation, and urban design. Mr. Cardillo is a practicing architect who has worked in Rome, New York and Milwaukee. Since 1999, he has been Director of the San Gemini Preservation Studies Program and Project Architect for the Archaeological Excavation of the Public Baths at Carsulae.
Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin; M. Arch., Columbia University;
Laurea di Architettura, Università di Palermo
Teaching:
Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design, 1980-1984
Adjunct Professor, University of Wisconsin, SARUP, 1995-2008
John Cabot University 2009
Nikolas Vakalis
Nikolas “Nikos” Vakalis is a qualified restorer-conservator (Degree on conservation of paintings from the Istituto Centrale per il
Restauro in Rome in 1979).
He has had 30 years experience in planning and co-ordination of restoration projects in Italy and other countries such as the USA, Africa and Asia.
He has been working for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other public and private Italian organizations, as well as with international institutions including Unesco, Iccrom and the World Monuments Fund.
His areas of activity are stone artifacts, easel paintings, wall paintings and polychrome wooden sculptures.
From 1980 until 1990 he has carried out personal private practice and from 1990 to 1998 he has established and managed a restoration company, Vakalis & Soci; since 1998 he has been working mostly in the field of education.
The latter activity has taken him to work as an instructor in countries such as China, USA (University of Wisconsin, SARUP 1999-2008, John Cabot University 2009), Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Albania, and Iraq.
Dr. Jane Whitehead
Jane Whitehead is presently a professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Valdosta State University. She is also chief editor of the journal Etruscan Studies and director of the archaeological excavation at the public baths in Carsulae. She has been director of the excavations at “ La Piana” an Etruscan agricultural settlement near Spannocchia.
Education:
B.A. Wellesley College
M.A. Trinity College
Ph.D. Yale University, Classical Archaeology
Bianca Fossà
Since 1984 works for the Italian Cultural Heritage Ministry and since 1997 at the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro (previously Istituto Centrale per il Restauro), where she’s Director of the Conservation Laboratories for “Ceramic & glass” and “organic material finds and artifacts”. She’s also Didactic Coordinator of the Conservation Courses-Objects Area of ISCR post-graduated School for Conservators. She’s been director of numerous laboratory and field didactic activities, tutor of degree-thesis and member of Entrance and Degree Commissions.
Education:
Degree in conservation from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome (Italy, 1980)
Degree in “Cultural Heritage Conservation”, University of Paris I-Sorbonne (France, 1995)
Internship at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (USA, 1981/82)
Experience:
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome (1991/95)
National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum Luigi Pigorini in Rome (1984/1991)
Coordinated and realized conservation activities on the archaeological and ethnographical collections and conducted conservation assessment of the museums and collections.
Conducted several didactic activities in Italy and abroad
University of Siena-Archaeology Department, Regional Courses
ICCROM PREvention for Museums of Africa course and others) and abroad (Paris I-Sorbonne University, Ghana, Morocco, India, Israel, China, Egypt) in Italian and ICCROM projects.
Massimo Vidale
Massimo Vidale is an eminent Italian scholar in the field of Archaeology. He specializes in ancient craft technologies, on surveying, recording and conserving of archaeological artefacts and sites. Besides having studied and worked with early cultures and civilizations in the Mediterranean Basin, he has published extensively on Early Central Asian and Hindus Valley Civilizations.
Prof. Vidale is currently Archaeological Curator at the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro (ISCR), Rome, and teaches at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”.
Prof. Vidale has published many books and articles, some of which are listed in the catalogues of the following libraries:
NY Public Library Harvard libraries
Elena Raimondi
Elena is a restorer living and working near Viterbo in Italy. She holds a degree from the Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration of Rome (Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro). This is her second year teaching the course and restoration workshop: Introduction to Conservation of Archaeological Ceramic in Italy. Her specialty is archeological ceramic sculptures and she is currently involved in restoring a group of 15th Century Italian ceramic sculptures.
Education:
Degree in conservation from Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration, Rome
Degree in History of Art from Roma Tre University, Rome
Graduate in Art and Architecture from the VI Art School, Rome
Elena Gabriella Lorenzetti
Elena Gabriella Lorenzetti is an archaeologist specializing in Roman ceramics. She studied at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. She has recently worked on the excavations of the Palatine Hill and the Tesataccio Market in Rome. Elena Lives in Montefranco, near Terni, and has been involved with excavations in South Umbria, including an Italic Sanctuary in Monte Moro (TN) and the excavations of the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium with Drew University.
Konstantinos Choulis
Is currently an Assistant Professor of Book and Paper Conservation & Restoration – Department of Conservation & Restoration of Antiquities and Works of Art, Technological Educational Institution, Athens.
Education:
2001-Present Doctoral candidate, PhD in the History of the Book, University of London.
1990 International Course of Lectures on Book Restoration organized by UNESCO, Venice.
1986-1988 Scientific Research on Byzantine Bindings of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, financially supported by the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens
1984-05 Diploma in Greek Palaeography – Scuola di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica, Vatican City.
1983-06 Scholarship obtained by the Hellenic Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) Specialisation in Paper Conservation and Restoration – Istituto Centrale per la Patologia del Libro, Rome
1982 – 1983 Diploma in Mosaic Techniques, University of Athens – School of Fine Arts.
1977 – 1982 BA in Fine Arts, University of Athens – School of Fine Arts.
