Giovanna Ceserani works on the classical tradition with an emphasis on the intellectual history of classical scholarship, historiography and archaeology from the eighteenth century onwards. She is interested in the role that Hellenism and Classics played in the shaping of modernity and, in turn, in how the questions we ask of the classical past originate in specific modern cultural, social and political contexts. She is currently writing a book on the history of the modern study of Magna Graecia. Most recently she wrote articles on Wilamowitz's entanglements with archaeology and on eighteenth-century historiography of ancient Greece. She also participates as research director in the AREA project (Archives for European Archaeology http://www.area-archives.org). In Spring 2006 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in LA.
