Dr. Lisa Pilar Eberle

• political economy
• archaeology as a source for ancient economic and social history
• law, administration and empire in ancient Rome (300 BCE - CE 300)
• gender and empire in ancient Rome
• resistance and the cultural history of violence in the Roman empire
• migration and demography in the ancient Mediterranean (800 – 500 BC)

My research explores the political economy of ancient cities and their empires, combining contributions to economic history, which often draw on archaeological evidence, with critical approaches to ancient legal texts.

Currently, my work focuses on the beginnings of the Roman empire in the Republic and early Principate, focusing on the Greek East in particular. In a monograph that builds on my dissertation research I examine the ways in which the many Romans and Italians that migrated to the provinces—their economic interests as well as the various reactions that their presence provoked among local populations and metropolitan Romans—helped shape the emerging institutions of provincial administration and imperial governance. In two further articles on silk clothing in Roman culture and on the moral economy of the Roman law of debt I analyze the negotiations of the consequences of imperial rule on the city of Rome itself.

In addition, I am pursuing two long-term projects on the territorialization of society and politics in archaic Greece as well as on the history of the rule of law in Roman legal thought and practice.

• (Im)mobile communities: Emigration and its consequences in the ancient Mediterranean, 800-500 BC (Habilitation/second book)
• CRC 923 „Threatened Orders“, Project E02 „Viri Absentes“, PI together with Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
• The worlds of Roman governors, together with James Corke Webster (King’s College London), supported by the King’s Global Partnership Fund
• Unrest in the Roman empire, a discursive history, together with Myles Lavan (St. Andrews University), supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
• Diasporic Empire. Towards a political economy of Roman provincial administration in the middle and late republic (first monograph)

• (Ruling through) resistance in the Roman empire, in: The Cultural History of Empires in the Western World, hg. von Antoinette Burton und Carlos Noreña. Bloomsbury, 177-99, 2018.
• Making Roman Subjects. Citizenship in the Time of Augustus, in: Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA) 147.2 (2017): 321-70.
• Landed Traders, Trading Agriculturalists? Land in the Economy of the Italian Diaspora in the Greek East, in: Journal of Roman Studies 107 (2017): 27-59 (gemeinsam mit Énora LeQuéré).
• Law, Empire, and the Making of Roman Estates in the Provinces during the Late Republic, in: Critical Analysis of Law 3.1 (2016) : 50-69.

• 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, Oxford University Press.
• Peregrini / Nationes Exterae. Foreigners and the political culture of the Roman Republic, in: The Blackwell Companion to Roman Politial Culture, hg. von Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Debt, death and destruction in Roman law and politics during the middle and late Republic, in: Debt. The first 3000 years, hg. von John Weisweiler. Oxford University Press.
• Wearing Silk, Weaving Silk. Gender and Empire in the Metropole, in: Gender, War and Imperialism in the Roman case, hg. von Hannah Cornwell und Greg Woolf. Cambridge University Press.

• Review: Hölkeskamp, Karl-Heinz: Libera Res Publica. Die politische Kultur des antiken Rom – Positionen und Perspektiven, Stuttgart 2017. In: Journal of Roman Studies 108. 2018.