Leila Moshfegh Monazah

Leila has interdisciplinary interests in maritime archaeology that draw on geoarchaeology, bioarchaeology, paleoecology, and artificial intelligence. She was a visiting student researcher in the lab in spring 2017, and joined the Marzamemi fieldwork that summer, focusing on skills in the methodologies of underwater excavation and treatment and documentation of late antique finds. In 2019, she earned her third cycle degree in underwater archeology at the Scuola di specializzazione in Beni Archeologici of the University of Sassari (Sardinia) with a thesis on the erosion of coastal heritage at the medieval port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. In fall 2021, she began a research project on the sepulchral crypt of the church of Saint Augustine, which aims at an interdisciplinary study – involving physical anthropology, paleopathology, paleo-nutrition, ergonomics, and genetics – of human bones from members of the corporation gremio dei viandanti.