Elisa IORI

Position
Researcher
E-mail
elisa.iori@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Archeologia e storia dell'arte dell'Asia centrale e dell'India [ASIA-01/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/elisa.iori (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Ca' Cappello

Elisa Iori is an archaeologist specialised in urban archaeology and archaeology of religions in the Indo-Iranian region.
She was trained as an archaeologist and art historian of the Iranian Plateau and South Asia at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Bologna. From the latter, she received a PhD in "Cultural Heritage Studies" in 2018. Since 2019 she has specialised in the archaeology of Buddhism at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt applying the theoretical perspectives of ‘urban religion’ , ‘material religion’ and ‘lived religion’ to the study of ancient societies in north-west South Asia.
She has conducted fieldwork in Villa Adriana (Italy), Persepolis (Iran), Mes Aynak (Afghanistan), Barikot and Butkara (Pakistan). Since 2020 she has been deputy director of the ISMEO/Ca' Foscari Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. From October 2024 she held the three-year Rita Levi Montalcini research programme ‘Archaeologies of Crisis: Urban and Religious Transformations of Northwest South Asia in Late Antiquity’.