Anna Giaconia is a PhD researcher within the ERC-funded project New Polities. Political Thought in the First Millennium, led by Prof. Peter Van Nuffelen.
She earned a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Bologna (2017) and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Padua and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2020), specializing in Syriac Christianity and Judaism. Her master’s thesis, entitled The Syriac Translation of Hebrew Bible’s Sexual Euphemisms in the Old Testament Peshitta, was supervised by Prof. Vittorio Berti and Prof. Emiliano Fiori.
From October 2024 to February 2025, she worked as an intern at the IRHT-CNRS in Paris, where she received training in Syriac and Hebrew codicology.
Her PhD project, Household and Women’s Spaces in Christian and Jewish Communities under Sasanian Rule and the Early Islamic Era (5th–8th c.), explores family law, gender roles, and interreligious dynamics within minority communities under Sasanian and early Islamic rule.
Her broader research interests include the legal and social history of Christian and Jewish groups in the Middle East, Syriac and Hebrew manuscript traditions, and the intersections of gender, law, and religious identity in Late Antiquity.
