Niccolò Mugnai
BA, MA, PhD, AFHEA
Biography
Niccolò Mugnai, BA, MA, PhD, AFHEA,is a classical archaeologist who specialises in the architecture, art, urbanism, and material culture of the Greco-Roman world, with a particular focus on North Africa. He currently holds a post of Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen (Germany), having studied and worked at Italian and British institutions (University of Siena; University of Leicester; University of Oxford; British School at Rome; British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies). He has led guided visits and has been involved in archaeological fieldwork at numerous sites in Italy, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya; he is presently co-directing an excavation project at the Etruscan-Roman town of Populonia on the coast of Tuscany, Italy. He has published extensively on the archaeology and architecture of ancient North Africa among other subjects. His recent works include De Africa Romaque: Merging Cultures across North Africa (Society for Libyan Studies, 2016, with J Nikolaus and N Ray); Architectural Decoration and Urban History in Mauretania Tingitana (Quasar Editions, 2018); Architectures of the Roman World: Models, Agency, Reception (Oxbow Books, 2023); and Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond (British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, 2024).
