Notes on Editors and Contributors
Anthony Álvarez Melero
(Brussels, Belgium, 1981), educated at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) with a Ph.D. in History, Art, and Archaeology (2010), is now associate professor at the University of Seville. His research concentrates most on epigraphy, Latin onomastics, prosopography, women in ancient Rome and Roman social history, and he is the author of several books on these topics, such as Matronae equestres. La parenté féminine des chevaliers romains originaires des provinces occidentales sous le Haut-Empire romain (Ier–IIIe siècles) (Brepols 2018). He has also published works in English, French and Spanish in journals and books in prestigious scholarly publishing houses in Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the United States, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In addition, he is part of the team working on the publication of the new volume of inscriptions, CIL II2/4, as well as a member of several international research groups, such as ORDO and Conditio feminae, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Daniel Becerra Fernández
developed his doctorate with a pre-doctoral contract corresponding to the projects of Excellence of the Junta de Andalucía and in 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. with the thesis entitled Los materiales marmóreos del Traianeum de Italica, under the direction of doctors P. León and J. Beltrán, who deserved the qualification of outstanding cum laude and the international distinction. In 2020, he enjoyed a postdoctoral contract from the Junta de Andalucía and since January 2021 he is a postdoctoral researcher “Juan de la Cierva-Formación” at the University of Córdoba. He has obtained a contract from the University of Málaga for the incorporation of doctors with an excellent research career. In 2022 he obtained the accreditation as Profesor Contratado Doctor (ANECA) and has carried out funded research stays at the University of Oxford, Sapienza University of Rome and at the German Archaeological Institute also in Rome. He has carried out most of his scientific activity in the field of Classical Archaeology, specifically in the study of marble in Antiquity, mainly in its characterisation, exploitation, use, dissemination and reuse.
Francisco Cidoncha Redondo
graduated in History from the University of Seville in 2012. Ph.D. in Ancient Histoy in the same university institution. Furthermore, he has also been a visiting researcher in the University of Oxford and the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología in Rome. He is currently a professor in Ancient History in the University of Seville. He has published several researches on Roman Family, mainly on the role of Roman women and other members of families such as slaves and freedmen. He is the author of one monograph El concubinato y el contubernio en la sociedad romana (siglos I a.C. – III d.C.).
Cristina de la Escosura Balbás
is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. After graduating from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), de la Escosura obtained her Ph.D. from Autónoma U. of Madrid and Complutense. She has worked for the University of Zaragoza as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on the Roman colonisation during the Republic. De la Escosura has a special interest in epigraphy, onomastics, and interactions between Romans and the local population. Her monography on Carthago Nova’s population won the Géza Alföldy Prize awarded by AIEGL.
Sergio España-Chamorro
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità of the Sapienza University of Rome and Associate Fellow of the Institut Ausonius, UMR 5607 CNRS-Bordeaux-Montaigne University. His main fields of research are Roman roads and milestones, connectivity processes, landscape archaeology, and Latin epigraphy in Africa, Hispania, and Italy.
David Espinosa Espinosa
Ph.D. in Ancient History by the Complutense University of Madrid. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Vienna. Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Oviedo and the Complutense University of Madrid. With a wide track record in international mobility, he focuses on the granting of Latin rights in the western Roman provinces, the Roman civil wars during the Republic, and Roman epigraphy. He has among his publications the books Plinio y los ‘oppida de antiguo Lacio’. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior (Oxford 2014) and Epigraphy in the Digital Age. Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions (Oxford 2021, along with I. Velázquez Soriano).
Javier Herrera Rando
Javier Herrera Rando (Málaga, 1986). He graduated in History from the University of Málaga and obtained a Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Zaragoza. His main lines of research are the Romanization and linguistic Latinization of the Iberian Peninsula, the relationship between Roman and indigenous epigraphic cultures in the Western Mediterranean, and the publication of epigraphic novelties. He has participated in the international projects Ancient European Languages and Writings (AELAW) or El Nacimiento de las culturas epigráficas en el Occidente Mediterráneo among others and has carried out research stays in Oxford, Rome, and Geneva. Currently, he is an FCT postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon.
Daniel León Ardoy
graduated in History from the University of Seville in 2018 and completed the master’s degree in advanced Historical Studies (Itinerary in Ancient History) at the same university in 2019, obtaining in both degrees several awards, from public and private institutions, for the best academic record of the promotion. Since the end of 2019, Daniel has been working on his doctoral thesis project on female participation in political conspiracies during ancient Rome through a FPU pre-doctoral contract. In recent years he has carried out research stays at the Spanish School for History and Archaeology in Rome and at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Antonio López García
(Granada, Spain, 1986) is a María Zambrano Fellow at the department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, where he directs a research project on the landscapes of the ancient colony of Acci. He is specialized in Roman archaeology and topography. He is affiliated with the ERC-funded SpaceLaw Project at the University of Helsinki, where he leads a subproject on the transformation of administrative space in the city of Rome. He obtained a Ph.D. in history and archaeology of the ancient world from the University of Florence, a master’s degree in architecture for archaeology from the Sapienza University of Rome, and a degree in history from the University of Granada. Previously, he has been a fellow of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. As a field archaeologist, he has participated in numerous international projects in Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom and directed two archaeological excavations in Spain. During his career he has been a visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley, the École française de Rome, the Finnish Institute of Rome, the German Archaeological Institute of Rome, and the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens, among others.
Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
is a María Zambrano Fellow at the department of Roman Law at the University of the Basque Country. She has a Ph.D. in Roman law (University of Alicante and Faculty of Law of Palermo) and a second Ph.D. in Roman archaeology (University of Southampton and Lumière-Lyon 2). She has hold research positions in Helsinki, Belgium and in Germany. She has published extensively on Roman law and its maritime focus. She is the editor of two volumes, Roman law and Maritime Commerce (EUP 2022) and Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Bloomsbury 2022). She is also the author of one monograph Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone under Sea (Brill 2022). She is currently working on her new monograph: Ports, Law and Material Culture in the Roman World. Negotiating Commercial Practice (OUP). He has also been a visiting researcher at many institutions, such as the University of Pavia, the University of Ghent, the French and British Schools at Rome or the Finnish Institute of Rome, among others.
Diego Romero Vera
received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Seville. He continued his training at the University of Córdoba where he acquired a master’s degree in Archeology and Historical Heritage. In 2012, he obtained a University Teaching Fellowship for the realization of a Ph.D. degree, which was defended in 2016. He had the opportunity to benefit from research stays at the University of Florence, at the German Archaeological Institute of Rome, the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Coimbra and the University of Oxford. He has completed his postdoctoral training at the Ausonius Centre of the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne and at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Seville, where he currently works as a Lecturer. His research has been mainly focusing on the urban evolution of the Roman cities in Iberia during Antonine Age and on the dynamism of these cities from the study of Epigraphical Sources. Other centers of interest are the study of the Epigraphic habit and the funerary associations in ancient saltus Tugiensis (Jaén), the analysis of the empty spaces or vacant areas located in the interior of the Hispano-roman cities, as well as the imperial properties in Hispania.
Anna-Maria Wilskman
She currently working on her Ph.D. in the project Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition. Her background is in Latin Language and Roman Literature with a strong emphasis on Classical Archaeology and Museum Studies. Her upcoming dissertation concentrates on the ways especially young Roman magistrates utilised material culture in their political ambitions. Teaching, research, art, and cultural heritage are constant sources of inspiration for her.