Letizia Trinco is a Research Affiliate at the Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies (GCSAS) and specialises in the art history and archaeology of South and Central Asia.
Her work at Ghent University has included a postdoctoral research position on the Nilgiri Archaeological Project (2021–2026), contributions to Excavations at Bodhgaya, the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment (2021–2024), and teaching as a co-lecturer for the course Art and Archaeology of South Asia.
She holds a BA and an MA in Oriental Languages and Cultures from the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, where she studied Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit. Her PhD dissertation focused on a variety of South Asian funerary artefacts commonly known as “hero-stones”.
She participated in the Uzbek-Italian Archaeological Mission at the site of Uch Kulakh, in the Bukhara oasis, Uzbekistan, and has experience conducting archaeological surveys in different regions of India.
Her research interests include funerary archaeology, religious iconography, and environmental history, with a focus on the pre-modern period in western and southern India, particularly Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala.
