Ballot Archive

16 Feb 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Mia Gaia Trentin

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA, MA. PhD

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist / Historian

Grounds for election

Mia Gaia Trentin is a member of the Cyprus Institute, and is widely regarded as one of the leading scholars in the study of early graffiti inscriptions across Europe. Her main interest is the written culture and models exchanges, mainly through sea and land routes in Eastern Mediterranean. Her researches focus on Medieval and Modern graffiti and their diffusion in different contexts such as pilgrimages’ sites and routes, Medieval and Modern cities and architectures (masons’ marks). She is currently working on Cyprus graffiti, with a special focus in mapping and tracing the phenomenon in the island emphasizing the ‘shared shrines’ (attended by both, Christian and Muslims) and the presence of different communities within the island. Dr Trentin has written and published widely on the subject of historical graffiti, as well as leading a number of important projects examining the early material evidence.

Signatories

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