Dr Francesca Fulminante
Departmental Tutor, Oxford Lifelong Learning
About
Dr Francesca Fulminante is a senior researcher and lecturer in the UK and Italy. Her research, through interdisciplinary approaches, investigates Mediterranean urbanization during the first Millennium BCE with a focus on central Italy and an interest in varied topics ranging from settlement distribution and social hierarchy to transportation systems networks and gender and infancy studies. After obtaining a PhD from Cambridge University, Dr Fulminante held post-doctoral positions at universities and institutes across Europe.
Dr Fulminante is an Associate Fellow of the HEA.
Expertise
- Archaeology
- Classics
- Science in archaeology
- Women and children in archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Routes and transportation systems
- Digital archaeology
- AI and archaeology
Selected publications
- Inside Out. Women and Children in Sacred urban and non urban spaces in antiquity (forthcoming 2026)
- Novel Approaches to Past Transportation Systems. Continuity and Discontinuity from Antiquity to the Present (2024)
- The Rise of Early Rome: Transportation Networks and Domination in Central Italy, 1050–500 BC (2023)
- Ancient Cultural Routes: Past Transportations Infrastructures as a Two-Way Interaction between Society and Environment (2023)
- Where Do Cities Come From and Where Are They Going To? Modelling Past and Present Agglomerations to Understand Urban Ways of Life (2021)
- Network Science Approaches for the Study of Past Long-Term Social Processes (2017)
- The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era (2014)
- Infants and Children: Agency in Past and Present Urban Societies (2012)
Recent media work
Languages
Italian (mother tongue); English (fluent); German (middle level); French (basic Level)