E-mail: Pdematte@risd.edu, or p_dematte@yahoo.com

Web site: http://faculty.risd.edu/faculty/pdematte/web/

Address USA: c/o Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI 02903

Phone office 401- 454 6267

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Association for Asian Studies (USA)

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Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Is. I.A.O. (Italy)

Fluent: Italian, English, Chinese.

Reading: French, German, Spanish.

Ancient Languages: Classical Chinese, Latin.

September 2000 - Present: Assistant Professor, Chinese Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Art History Department.

July 2001 - Present: Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Spring Quarter 2000 Lecturer in Chinese archaeology at the UCLA School of Extention.

Winter Quarter 2000 Lecturer in Chinese archaeology at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Winter Quarter 2000 Lecturer in Chinese art at the UCLA School of Extention.

Summer Session 1994: Teaching Assistant in the course Chinese Civilization, Prof. Hung-hsiang Chou, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California Los Angeles.

Winter Quarter 1991: Teaching Assistant in the course Chinese Civilization, Prof. Hung-hsiang Chou, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

1998-2000 Research Associate: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

September 1996 - June 1999 Research Associate, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles.

July 1995 - March 1996 Guest Assistant Curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Exhibitions Department, for the exhibition on the art and technology of ancient Chinese jade ("Stones from Heaven. Ancient Chinese Jade"). August 1995 - March 1996.

Summer 1993: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Internship for Graduate Students, Asian Art department.

March 23, 1996 - Ph. D. in Archaeology, UCLA, Archaeology Interdepartmental Program.

September 1993 - December 1993: Doctoral research at the Archaeology Department of Beijing University, P. R. China.

June 14, 1991: Masters Degree in Archaeology, UCLA, Archaeology Interdepartmental Program. Thesis presented on the problem of the tomb guardian statue in the Warring States tombs of the Chu state.

Academic Year 1989/90: University of California, Berkeley. One year non degree program at the Art History Department to study the history of Chinese painting.

October 28, 1988: Laurea* degree in East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Venice, summa cum laude (110/110 e Lode). Thesis presented on the arts and archaeology of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Chu.*The Laurea, an Italian University Degree, is equivalent to the M.A. of the Anglo-American university system.

Fall 1985: Liaoning University, History Department, graduate research in Chinese language and archaeology.

Spring 1986 and Academic Year 1986/87: Beijing Central Institute of Applied Arts, Theory of Arts Department, graduate research on the art and archaeology of the Chu kingdom in ancient China.

September-November 1984: Intensive Course in Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute, Beijing, P. R. China.

Fall 1981: Enrolled at the Università degli Studi di Venezia (University of Venice, Italy), School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Degree in East Asian Languages and Literature, Department of Chinese Studies.

Major: Chinese language and literature.

Minor: Chinese art and archaeology.

July 1981: Graduated from High School Pier Fortunato Calvi of Belluno, Italy.

1979-1981: Scuola Comunale di Musica (School of Music) of Belluno, Italy. Flute and musical theory.

Spring 2001: Professional Development Grant, RISD, for research on Chinese petroglyphs.

Winter Quarter 2000: UCLA Office of Instructional Development Mini Grants.

December 1999: Ahmanson Grant for Field Research, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, for research on Chinese petroglyphs.

June - August 1997: CHIANG CHING-KUO Foundation Summer Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei (National Taiwan University).

June 1994: UCLA Chancellor Dissertation Year Fellowship for 1994-95.

April 1993: PHI BETA KAPPA Fellowship for 1994-95.

April 1993: UCLA Friends of Archaeology Grant for long term research in the P. R. of China, in the Fall.

April 1992: UCLA Friends of Archaeology Grant for short term research in the P. R. of China, Inner Mongolia, in the Fall.

1990/94: Italian University and Scientific Research Ministry Scholarship for Post-Graduate Studies Abroad.

1991/94: UCLA Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship.

1989/91: FULBRIGHT Grant to study at the University of California.

1989/90: University of California E.A.P. Reciprocity Scholarship.

1986/87: Italian Foreign Affair Ministry scholarship for the People's Republic of China.

1985/86: Italian Foreign Affair Ministry scholarship for the People's Republic of China.

June 2002: Archaeological research on petroglyph sites in Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu Province, P. R. China.

August 2001: Ceramic artifacts analysis, Apisaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

August 2000: Excavation of Neolithic to Bronze Age site at Bus del Buson, Belluno, Italy.

June 2000: Archaeological survey research on petroglyph sites of Inner Mongolia (Yinshan), and Ningxia Provinces (Helanshan), P.R. China.

February 1998 - June 2000: Cooperation on the World Bank "Chongqing Urban Environment Project - Cultural Heritage Component". Survey of historic and archaeological sites in the Chongqing Municipality.

August 1997: Survey of the site of Yuan Shang Du, Inner Mongolia, for the Università degli Studi di Venezia (Italy).

September 1993 - January 1994: Survey research in Henan, Shandong and Shaanxi Provinces, while conducting doctoral research at the Archaeology Department of Beijing University, P. R. China.

October 1992: Archaeological survey research in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, P. R. China, with special regards towards rock art and early bronze age sites.

June-July 1991: Excavation of Roman and Medieval housing and religious structures, Belluno, Veneto Region, Italy (Sopraintendenza Archeologica del Veneto).

Spring 1991: Excavation of a prehistoric and historic Native American settlement; Little Lake, Inyo County, California. (UCLA field course).

"Writing the Landscape: the Petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Province (China)." Paper presented at the First International Conference of Eurasian Archaeology, University of Chicago, May 3-4, 2002.

"The Petroglyphs of North-western China." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 18- 23, 2001.

"Cultural Heritage and Cultural Politics in the Chongqing and Three Gorges area." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, April 5-9, 2000.

"The Chinese Jade Age: between archaeology and antiquarianism." Lecture presented at the Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, March 3, 2000.

"The Chongqing Cultural Heritage: A Project in International Cooperation." Report presented at the international conference "Financing, Resources and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable Development." Cosponsored by the government of Italy and the World Bank in cooperation with UNESCO, Florence, October 4-7 1999.

"The Cultural Heritage and Archaeology of China's Three Gorges." Lecture presented at Loyola Marymount University, February 16th, 1999.

"Longshan Era Urbanism." Lecture presented at the Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, March 19th, 1999.

"Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in the Chongqing and Three Gorges Area" Lecture presented at the J. P. Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, May 18, 1998.

"The Role of Writing in the Process of State Formation in Late Neolithic China." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, April 2- 6, 1997.

"Longshan Urbanism." Lecture presented at the Anthropology Department, Harvard University, March 18, 1997.

"Rock Art of Inner Mongolia." Paper presented at the Annual Symposium of the UCLA Friends of Archaeology, UCLA 1993.

"Antler and Tongue Revisited: New Archaeological Evidence from the Warring States Tombs of the Chu kingdom." Paper presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast held at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, June 19-21, 1992.

"Carbon-14 dating of Medieval Chinese Carpets." Paper presented with Rainer Berger, Adam T. Kessler, and Sammy Y. K. Lee at the 28th International Symposium on Archaeometry, UCLA, March 23-27, 1992.

"Beyond Shamanism: Landscape and Self-Expression in the Petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia (China)" forthcoming 2003 Cambridge Journal of Archaeology.

"Writing the Landscape: Petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Province (China)" forthcoming 2003 Colloquia Pontica.

"Review of the Cambridge History of Ancient China: from the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Loewe M. and Shaughnessy E. editors" American Antiquity vol. 65 (2000), p. 206.

"The Role of Writing in the Process of State Formation in Late Neolithic China." East and West (1999).

"Longshan Urbanism. The Role of Cities in Pre-dynastic China." Asian Perspectives vol. 39 (1999).

The Origins of Chinese Writing. Archaeological and Textual Analysis of the Pre-dynastic Evidence. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, 1996.

"China: History of Archaeology since 1950." Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1996:302-304), Oxford University Press.

"Antler and Tongue. New Archaeological Evidence in the Study of the Chu Tomb Guardian." East and West (1994/44:353-404) Is.M.E.O., Rome.

"Decisi di scoprire la vera Cina." in SetteGi Dolomiti, March 11, 1994 (newspaper article).

"A sud delle nuvole" in SetteGi Dolomiti , September 23, 1994, (newspaper article).

L'Arte di Chu. Aspetti dello Sviluppo Storico Artistico e Iconografico nella Valle del Fiume Azzurro. Tesi di Laurea, Università degli Studi di Venezia "Ca' Foscari", Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Corso di Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Orientali. Venice, 1988.

2001-2002: African Art search committee, Rhode Island School of Design.

2000-2001, 2002-2003: European Honors Program, Rome, Rhode Island School of Design.

1997 - 1999: Sammy Yu-kuan Lee Foundation Lecture Series Advisory Committee, Los Angeles.

1996 - 1999: Conceptual Group. J.P. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

2000: Interviewed for the History Channel documentary "China's Great Dam: Taming the Dragon", Perpetual Motion Films, Los Angeles.