Awards In Italian Culture 2021
Massimo Osanna, Director General of Museums, Italian Ministry of Culture
Massimo Osanna – full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Napoli “Federico II” – is Director General of Museums at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. He received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Perugia, where he studied the Greek colonization in Italy and a PhD in History from the University of San Marino, studing the religion of the ancient Peloponnesos. He carried out researches at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens and the University of Heidelberg (fellowship Alexander von Humboldt). He undertook his professional activity at the University of Basilicata where he was a Lecturer in classical archeology (since 1994), Associate professor (since 2000) and Director of the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage in Matera (2002-2014). He was also Superintendent for the Archaeological Heritage of Basilicata (2007-2008); Directeur d’etude (2007) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (2007); Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Heidelberg (2010); research fellow Alexander von Humboldt at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin (2011); visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2013). Between 2014 and 2020 he has been the Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompei.
Previous FIAC Awards
2019
Paola D’Agostino
Xavier F. Salomon
2018
Gabriele Finaldi
Richard Armstrong
2017
Paola Marini
Ian Wardropper
2016
Davide Gasparotto
Eike Schmidt
2015
Mariella Utili
Eric M. Lee
2013
Colin B. Bailey
Daniela Porro
2012
Brian J. Ferriso
Antonia Pasqua Recchia
2011
Glenn Lowry
Rossella Vodret
2010
Malcolm Rogers
Roberto Cecchi
2008
Anne Poulet
Nicola Spinosa
2007
Phillip de Montebello
Cristina Acidini