Lecturer, History of Art; Affiliated Faculty Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology; and Founder & Interim Director of the Mario Del Chiaro Center for the Study of Ancient Italy at the University of California, Berkeley
Lisa C. Pieraccini received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she worked with Professor Mario Del Chiaro, one of the pioneers of Etruscan art in the U.S. She works on the art and archaeology of the first millennium BCE in Italy, with special emphasis on the Etruscans and early Romans. Professor Pieraccini has taught at Stanford University and has been teaching at the University of California at Berkeley since 2008. She lived for many years in Italy, where she taught and conducted research in Rome and southern Etruria. Her interests include a wide variety of subjects spanning the ancient Mediterranean, from cultural heritage and digital humanities, to international trade, funerary art, food and ritual, issues of identity and decolonizing the past.
Professor Pieraccini has published a variety of articles and chapters on aspects of funerary ritual; tomb painting; the Etruscan contextualization of Greek myth; the use, decor, and agency of cylinder stamps; as well as the reception of Italy’s ancient past. She is co-editor of a book series dedicated to Etruscan Cities published by Texas University Press; Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 2023); and Consumption, Ritual, Art, and Society: Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria (Brepols, 2023). Professor Pieraccini is an elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence, Italy, and has led many successful tours in Italy throughout her career.
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