SIMONE CIAMBELLI
Principal Investigator
Tenure-Track Researcher at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy), specializing in the social history of the Roman World and Latin epigraphy. His research focuses on non-élite populations, with particular attention to Roman associations (collegia). Additionally, he explores the reception of Roman history—especially its appropriation by fascism — and the contemporary impact of Greco-Roman studies.
He completed his studies at the University of Milan and the University of Bologna. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020 from both the University of Bologna and the Université de Poitiers (France). He is the author of I collegia e le relazioni clientelari. Studio sui legami di patronato delle associazioni professionali nell’Occidente romano tra I e III sec. d.C.(Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2022).
ALESSANDRO CRISTOFORI
Supervisor
Associate professor at the University of Bologna since September 2014. His teaching and research activity are in the field of Roman History. His interests focus particularly on the social history of the Roman world, on new digital tools for teaching and research in Ancient History, and, more recently, on the comparison between the Roman Empire and the ancient Chinese Empire.
JOHN BODEL
Associated Partner Supervisor
W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University. He was educated at Princeton (B.A. 1978) and the University of Michigan (M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1984) and taught for several years at Harvard (1984-1992) and Rutgers (1993-2002) before joining the faculty at Brown in 2003. His research focuses on ancient Roman epigraphy, Roman social, economic, and cultural history, and Latin literature and he has broad comparative interests in slavery, funerals and burial customs, and ancient writing systems. Since 1995, he has directed the U.S. Epigraphy Project (USEP), the purpose of which is to gather and share information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in American collections. From the time it came to Brown with him in 2003, USEP has existed on-line as an open access XML EpiDoc corpus of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the USA and at the American Academy in Rome.
Secondement supervisor
Professor of Roman History at Université de Paris and permanent member at ANHIMA. He was educated at ENS de St-Cloud, University of Paris Sorbonne, Ecole Française de Rome and Université of Provence (Ph.D. 1995) and taught for several years at University of Orléans (1996-2000) and ENS-Lyon (2000-2012) before joining the Université Paris Cité in 2012. His research focuses on ancient urban history, Roman social, economic, and political history. He is a vice-chair of the Société Française d'Histoire Urbaine. He was a member of L'Année Épigraphique (1996-2014) team and got involved in the beginnings of the Epigraphica Romana project.