Jan Gadeyne

Since 1988, Jan Gadeyne has taught for several liberal arts and architecture programs in Rome, such as Temple University, Cornell University, Trinity College, University of Miami, and the Pratt Institute. He has been a guest lecturer for the Graduate Program in Architecture of Yale University, La Sapienza University, and Tunghai University (Taiwan). His courses embrace ancient Roman art and architecture, urban history of Rome in antiquity and the Middle Ages, late antique and early Byzantine art and architecture, and the ancient history of Rome. Since 2005, he has served as codirector of the excavation of the Roman villa on the Piano della Civita in Artena (40 miles southeast of Rome), a site occupied from the 4th/3rd centuries BC to the 7th century AD. The title of his Ph.D. in Archaeology and Ancient Art History is “Function and dysfunction of the City: Rome in the 5th century AD.” He has published papers on Roman lead seals, Early Christian apse mosaics, the formation of the street system in Early Medieval Rome, and — especially — on the excavations of the Roman villa at Artena. He has coedited, together with Gregory Smith, Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day, published by Ashgate in 2013. Together with Annabella D’Elia, Rosario Pavia, and Rosalia Vittorini, he is co-author of Intorno alle mura di Roma. Itinerari di archeologia e architettura, Architetti Roma Edizioni, Rome, 2022. As a member of a research group for the study and promotion of the Aurelian wall, he is also co-author of Intorno alle Mura di Roma, a guide to the walls of Rome and the urban expansion around them.

Jan Gadeyne holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology and Ancient Art History and an M.A. in the Classics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).  He also studied late antique art and archaeology at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster (Germany) and early Christian Archaeology at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome.