Dr. Giuseppe Labisi

Born in Vittoria (Italy) in 1987, Giuseppe Labisi is an archaeologist who obtained his PhD in Islamic archaeology jointly at the Sapienza University of Rome and the Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris in 2017. He additionally obtained the professorship qualification in archaeology (in Italy) in 2023. Since 2020, he is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and since 2022 associate member of the Polen Research Centre (UR 4710), University of Orléans (France). His research focuses on the Sasanian-Islamic and Byzantine-Islamic transitions with an emphasis on architecture, although it also covers other topics such as landscape and ancient road systems, settlement dynamics and material culture.

He has been the coordinator of the research project on the Bozpar Valley (Iran, directed by Stefan R. Hauser, University of Konstanz) from 2020 to 2024, he is member of the “Chartaq Research Project” (directed by Stefan R. Hauser) and co-director of the research project on Monte Altesina (Italy, directed with Anna Caiozzo). His publications include the monograph Dwelling Models of Umayyad Madāʾin and Quṣūr in Greater Syria (published for the British Archaeological Reports, International Series).