Sam Hardy

Sam Hardy is an Honorary Fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, affiliated with the University of Oslo. He holds adjunct roles including Adjunct Professor at the American University of Rome and Honorary Research Associate at University College London's Institute of Archaeology. His research focuses on conflict antiquities, trafficking dynamics, and cultural property crime in regions like the Mediterranean, Middle East, and post-Soviet states. Key projects include tracing conflict antiquities financing and examining trafficking networks linking conflict zones to global markets.

Education: DPhil in Law Studies (University of Sussex), MA in Cultural Heritage Studies (UCL), BA in Archaeology (University of Sheffield). Teaching includes courses like Heritage, Material Culture and Conflict at the University of Oslo. His work combines open-source research with criminological analysis, addressing intersections between cultural heritage loss and political violence.

Consultancies span UNESCO, ICOM, and Global Witness. Current projects under the Heritage Experience Initiative explore illicit trafficking's link to political violence and refugee crises, aiming to inform heritage protection strategies.