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Jane Gardner is a British Professor Emeritus of Ancient Historyn Italian-American archaeologist and academic. She is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading in England, specializing in Roman social and economic history.

Education
Marzano grew up in Positano and attended the Liceo Classico P. Virgilio Marone in Meta di Sorrento. She received her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Classics (Laurea in Lettere Classiche) in 1994 with honours (110/110 summa cum laude) from the University of Florence, where she continued her studies with a post-master diploma in ‘Science for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage’ (1996). She then undertook postgraduate research at Columbia University under the supervision of William V. Harris, receiving her Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 1999, and completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2004, with distinction. Her doctoral thesis was titled ‘Villas and Roman Society in Central Italy: From the Late Republic to the Middle Empire’.

Academic career
Marzano began her academic career in the UK as research assistant to Prof. Andrew Wilson at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford (2004-2007) and was a member of the research team for the Oxford Roman Economy Project (2005-2008). She was appointed as Lecturer in Classics in 2008 and, subsequently, promoted to Reader in 2011 in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading; in 2013 she was appointed Professor of Ancient History. She has been Head of Department (2013–2016) and Director of the Centre for Economic History (2013–2016).

She has held various fellowships, both in the US and the UK. While at Columbia University she was awarded a Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2002-2003). Once at Oxford, she was appointed W. Golding Jr. Research Fellow at Brasenose College (2005 –2008). In 2010 she was Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and was nominated Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome in autumn 2016. In 2016 she has also been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for the period 2017-2019. She is currently Member of the University Senate and a Member of Council and Trustee for The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.