Team
Team MAPPOLA
Dr Chiara CENATI
MA (La Sapienza University of Rome), PhD (Vienna). Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.
During the years of my PhD I have studied the inscriptions of the soldiers from the Danubian provinces in the city of Rome, focusing on their identity perceptions, self-representation and social relationships. In general, I am interested in the contacts between civilians and soldiers as well as in the geographical mobility within the Roman empire. I am also actively involved in important Digital Epigraphy projects like Epigraphy.info and Epigraphic Database Roma (edr-edr.it).
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Alexander GANGOLY
BA, BA, MA, MA (Vienna). Doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and Organisational Assistant to Team MAPPOLA.
I am interested in the cultural diversity of antiquity as a whole, but particularly in the relationship between Latin and Greek speakers and their habits, behaviour and appearance (habitus). In recent months, I studied the inner-familial status differences in funerary inscriptions of slaves and freed(wo)men as well as the Carmina Latina Epigraphica of Hispania (CIL XVIII/2).
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Prof. Peter KRUSCHWITZ
MA, PhD (Freie Universität Berlin). FHEA, FRHistS, M.A.E. Socius et Academicus Ordinarius Pontificiae Academiae Latinitatis. Professor of Ancient Cultural History (Antike Kulturgeschichte) at the University of Vienna and Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Reading. Principal Investigator of ERC Advanced Grant Project MAPPOLA – Mapping Out the Poetic Landscape(s) of the Roman Empire.
My main research interests lie in the poetic culture and song culture of the Roman world with their related broad chronological, geographical, ethnic, and social variations, shifts, and changes. A particular interest of mine is the poetic culture of non-elites.
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Denisa MURZEA
BA, MA (Cluj-Napoca). Doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.
For my Master’s degree, I have studied the public image and perception of Roman empresses, and since then I have developed a great interest in the engagement of women in different social and cultural expressions. For my future work, I would like to explore, from a broad range of perspectives, including authorship, femininity in Roman inscribed verse.
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Mirko TASSO
BA, MA (Pavia). Doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.
In my master’s thesis I have studied the role of pagan historiography in Augustine’s De civitate Dei. Since then, I have developed a strong interest in religious networks and their literary expressions in the Roman world, and particularly in Late Antiquity. For my future studies, I wish to investigate the strategies adopted by Late antique religious communities to self-express and defend their religious and social identities in Latin and Greek verse inscriptions.
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Former Researchers of Team MAPPOLA
Dr Victoria GONZÁLEZ BERDÚS
MA, PhD (Universidad de Sevilla). Quondam Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna for Team MAPPOLA, now Assistant Professor at the University of Sevilla.
Visitors
Yolanda LÓPEZ SÁNCHEZ
MA, Doctoral researcher at the University of Seville (since October 2020).
For her Master’s degree, Yolanda has studied Latin epigraphic texts, and ever since she has been interested in editing and studying the Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Since October 2020 she has been a FPU researcher at the University of Seville, and she decided to focus her PhD on the Carmina Latina Epigraphica Germaniarum, supervised by Prof. C. Fernández Martínez and Prof. P. Kruschwitz.
Prof. Juan MARTOS FERNÁNDEZ
Professor Juan Martos Fernández of Seville University has been a visitor to the MAPPOLA project from March through May 2020 and in Spring 2021. He has joined us again in Spring 2022.
Prof. Martos is currently working on a bilingual edition of Ovid’s Fasti.
Davide MASSIMO
BA MA (La Sapienza Università di Roma), Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford. Davide was a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna and the MAPPOLA project thanks to an Ernst Mach Worldwide grant in February-March 2022.
Working on a doctoral dissertation about the epigrams of the Hellenistic poet Leonidas of Tarentum (3rd century BC), Davide has more recently been expanding his work into the areas of inscribed epigram and inscribed poetry more generally. In 2021, he started working on some Greek metrical inscriptions from Rome (esp. epitaphs) thanks to a Rome Award at the British School at Rome. Continuing his work on Greek metrical inscriptions at the University of Vienna, Davide is looking forward to entertaining a conversation with Team MAPPOLA, allowing him to explore themes such as the interactions between the Greek and the Latin poetic landscape of metrical inscriptions.
External contributors
Dr Ilaria GROSSI
MA and PhD (La Sapienza University of Rome), post-doctoral lecturer of Latin Epigraphy and Roman Antiquities at La Sapienza, University of Rome.
My studies focus on Late Antiquity, more precisely on the relationship of the Emperor Constantine with pagan-Christian religious aspects. During the three years of my PhD I have been studying the urban prefects of the age of Valentinian III, analysing epigraphic, literary and juridical sources in order to carry out a prosopographical survey. I have been collaborating in Digital Epigraphy platforms like Epigraphic Database Roma, where I have been entering urban sepulchral and honorary inscriptions, as well as inscriptions of late antique emperors and senators, and EAGLE Europeana. Lately, I have been studying the inscriptions of the Tusculum area.