Faculty Profile

Jan Gadeyne has a Ph.D. in Archaeology and Ancient Art History from the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL, Belgium), an  M.A. in Classics and an M.A. in Ancient Art History and Archaeology also from the Catholic University of Louvain. He also studied late antique art and archaeology at the Westfaelische Wilhelms University of Muenster. He came to Rome in 1987 with a grant to study early Christian Archaeology at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana.

Since 1988 he has been teaching for several American study abroad programs, including Temple University and Trinity College, and periodically lecturing to other programs, among them Georgetown University, Kent State University, and Yale University. Since 1998 he has taught “The Topography and Urban History of Rome in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” for Cornell in Rome, and he has frequently lectured during Cornell field trips. He is co-director of the excavation of a Roman villa in Artena.

Gadeyne's doctoral dissertation is entitled “Function and dysfunction of the City: Rome in the 5th century AD.” He has also published papers on Roman lead seals and early Christian apse mosaics, preliminary reports on the excavations of the Roman villa at Artena, and (forthcoming) an article on the urban history around the hospice of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi, near the Cornell center at Palazzo Lazzaroni.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

• 2008: Grant from Temple University for the excavation of the Roman villa in Artena
• 2003: Grant from the Boston Foundation for the excavation campaign of the Roman villa in Artena
• 2000–2001: Grant from Temple University Rome for research on the urban history of Rome in the 5th and 6th century AD
• 1996: Grant from the European Commission (Department of Cultural Programs) for the excavations of the Roman villa of Artena, Italy (part of a larger project on "Fortifications of ancient towns in Latium")
• 1987–1988: Scholarship for Rome as part of the cultural accords between Belgium and Italy for research on the urban history of Rome in the late antique age (4th to 6th century AD)
• 1985–1986: Scholarship as part of the exchange agreement between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and the Westfaelische Wilhelmsuniversitaet Muenster, Germany
• 1983: Scholarship from the Belgian Historical Insitute of Rome for research for thesis in archaeology