Institute of Ancient History

Dr. Lisa Pilar Eberle

Assistant Professor

Contact

Wilhelmstr. 36, Room 503, 72074 Tübingen

+49 / 7071 / 29 76077

lisa.eberlespam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours

  • by appointment via email

October 2024 – September 2025
Feodor Lynen Senior Research Fellow

University of Edinburgh

March 2023
Visiting lecturer

University of St. Andrews (Classics & History)

February 2019
Visiting lecturer

King’s College London (Classics)

2019 – 2023
Co-PI

CRC 923 „Threatened Orders“

March 2018
Visiting lecturer

Aix Marseille Université (AMU), History Department

since Oct 2016
Assistant Professor

Ancient History, University of Tübingen

2014 – 2016
Junior Research Fellow (Postdoc)

Humanities, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

2013 – 2014
Doctoral Fellow

International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.M.

2008 – 2014
MA and PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA), University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation title: „Law, Land, and Territories: The Roman Diaspora and the Making of Provincial Administration“

2004 – 2008
BA(Hons) in Classics (Literae Humaniores)

St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

Research

Research Interests and Projects

My research explores the political economies of ancient Rome, how different people made, fought for, and lost claims to the world in the framework of the imperial res publica. I am currently finishing a book on Romano-Italian settler colonialism and the forms of statecraft it called into being in Rome’s emerging provinces and have begun a another one on the highly varied, but pervasive and heretofore unexplored role of women as enslavers in the Graeco-Roman world. In 2022 I joined the editorial board of the Journal of Roman Studies; since 2023 I have been a member of the research network IANUA (Environments for dialogue: the spatial contexts of diplomacy in the Roman provincial sphere during the republic), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union.

Publications

Monographs

(in preparation) States of Displacement. The Politics of Settler Colonialism and Provincial Statecraft in the Roman Republic

Edited volumes

(2024, together with Myles Lavan) Unrest in the Roman Empire. A Discursive History, Frankfurt/Chicago: Campus.

Journal articles & contributions to edited volumes

(2024) Narrating Entitlement in Ancient Rome. Nomos, Empire, and Political Economy between 150 BCE and 150 CE, in: Recht als Erzählung / Law and Narrative, ed. by Robert Kirstein and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner. Basel: Schwabe.

(2024) Introduction, in Unrest in the Roman Empire. A Discursive History, ed. by Lisa Pilar Eberle and Myles Lavan. Frankfurt/Chicago: Campus.

(2024) Aporetic Unrest. Appian, Hadrian and the politics of imperial history in the second century CE, in Unrest in the Roman Empire. A Discursive History, ed. by Lisa Pilar Eberle and Myles Lavan. Frankfurt/Chicago: Campus.

(2024) The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World. Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism, in Morality and Models in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies, ed. by Seth Bernard and Sarah Murray. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2023) The Edicts of the Praetors: Law, Time, and Revolution in Ancient Rome, in Law and History Review, First View, 1-25.

(2023, together with Johanna Göcke), Turias Tod. Macht, Erinnerung, und Geschlecht nach den römischen Bürgerkriegen, in: Krisen anders denken, ed. by Ewald Frie and Mischa Meier, 324-36. Berlin: Propyläen.

(2023) Kontingenz, Konkurrenz, und Kommerzialisierung. Senatorische Elite und wirtschaftliches Leben in der ausgehenden mittleren Republik, in: Stabilität—Kontingenz—Innovation, ed. by Christopher Degelmann and Jan-Markus Kötter. Berlin: Metzler.

(2023) Foreign Silk on Roman Bodies: Gender, Wealth and Empire in the Metropole, in: Gendering Roman Imperialism, ed. by Hannah Cornwell and Greg Woolf, 203-22. Leiden: Brill.

(2022) Debt, death and destruction in Roman law and politics during the middle and late Republic, in: Debt. The first 3000 years, ed. by John Weisweiler, 67-83. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2022) Peregrini / Nationes Exterae. Foreigners and the political culture of the Roman Republic, in: The Blackwell Companion to Roman Political Culture, ed. by Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag, 332-46. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

(2021) Fiscal semantics in the long second century: Citizenship, taxation, and the constitutio Antoniniana, in: Roman citizenship in the long second century, ed. by Clifford Ando and Myles Lavan, 69-102. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2019) Resistance in the Roman empire, in: The Cultural History of Empires in the Western World, ed. by Antoinette Burton and Carlos Noreña, 177-99. London: Bloomsbury.

(2017) Making Roman Subjects. Citizenship in the Time of Augustus, in: Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA) 147.2: 321-70.

(2017, together with Énora LeQuéré) Landed Traders, Trading Agriculturalists? Land in the Economy of the Italian Diaspora in the Greek East, in: Journal of Roman Studies 107: 27-59.

(2016) Law, Empire, and the Making of Roman Estates in the Provinces during the Late Republic, in: Critical Analysis of Law 3.1: 50-69

Reviews

(2022) Meister, Jan B. und Gunnar Seelentag, Hrsg. Konkurrenz und Institutionalisierung in der griechischen Archaik, Stuttgart 2020. In: Historische Zeitschrift 314(3): 725-7.

(2020) Bernard, Seth: Building Mid-Republican Rome. Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy, Oxford 2018. In: Historische Zeitschrift 311(2): 429-31.

(2018) Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim: Libera Res Publica. Die politische Kultur des antiken Rom – Positionen und Perspektiven, Stuttgart 2017. In: Journal of Roman Studies 108: 1-2.

Other

(2022) Tutorium Alte Geschichte. Digitale Resourcen für die Präsenzlehre in der althistorischen Propädeutik
collection of twelve short educational videos (with scripts, PPTs, worksheets, and sample), published on ZOERR (https://www.oerbw.de/), the repository for Open Educational Ressources in Baden-Württemberg

(2020) Adsenz statt Präsenz. Erfahrungsbericht einer Historikerin aus dem digitalen Semester, in: Forum Digitales Lehren auf H Soz Kult (https://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/fddebate-132415)

(2019) Dem Schicksal entkommen: Antike Texte, Moderne Feminismen
collection of student essays composed in a seminar on the feminist reception of ancient literature
https://medium.com/dem-schicksal-entkommen-antike-texte-moderne