Eugenia Vitello
Hanseatic Visiting Scholar – Doctoral Student in Ancient History
Kontakt
Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen
07071 / 29 78501 (secretary's office)
eugenia.vitello@student.uni-tuebingen.de
eugenia.vitello@classics.ox.ac.uk
October 2024 – present
Visiting Scholar
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft, Seminar für Alte Geschichte
October – December 2023
Tutorial Teacher
Somerville College & St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
January - March 2023
Teaching Assistant
University of Oxford, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Faculty of Classics
July 2022 – present
Research Team Member as a resident historian and epigraphist
Aphrodisias Excavations Project, Oxford University and New York University
October 2021 – present
DPhil (PhD) in Ancient History
University of Oxford, Brasenose College (dissertation: “Gendering Wealth. Women and Economic Agency in Roman Asia”)
January 2021
Post-Graduate Advanced Class
"La tarda antichità: metodologia della ricerca II. Fra centro e periferia" in Philology and History of Late Antiquity, Sapienza Università di Roma
December 2020 – May 2021
Research Assistant
Project "Transformationen von Gesellschaft und Landschaft im südlichen Umfeld des Gardasees in römischer Zeit", Universität zu Köln, Historisches Institut, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte
January 2020
Master’s Degree in Classical Philology and Ancient History
Sapienza Università di Roma (dissertation: “I collegia di Hierapolis di Frigia: il fenomeno associativo romano e le sue conseguenze socio-economiche in un contesto urbano d’Asia Minore”)
May 2019 – May 2021
2019 and 2021 Excavation Seasons
Hadrian's Villa with APAHA Digging Project, Columbia University of New York and Sapienza Università di Roma
February – April 2019
Internship Student
Epigraphic Database Rome (EDR) project, Sapienza Università di Roma
September 2018
2018 Excavation Season
Palatine Hill’s North-Eastern Side, Sapienza Università di Roma
December 2017
Bachelor’s Degree in Classics
Sapienza Università di Roma (dissertation: “L'eredità de La Rivoluzione Romana. Ronald Syme in Italia dalla censura fascista ad oggi”)
Research
Research interests
- Ancient History (esp. Roman to Late Antique)
- Economic History of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
- Urban Economies of Roman Anatolia
- Social History
- Material Culture
- Gender Studies
- History of Historiography
Publications
Publications
- “Late Roman Unguentaria with Monograms from Tetrapylon Street”, in Jacobs I., Aphrodisias XVII. The Tetrapylon Street from Late Antique to Modern Times, Wiesbaden forthcoming [Book Chapter]
- “The Politics of Syme's Revolution”, in Barja de Quiroga P. L. (ed.), “Elites y Massas”, Revista de Historiografía 40, 2025, forthcoming [Essay – co-authored with F. Santangelo]
- “Beyond Munificence. Economic Thinking and Financial Transactions in Roman Aphrodisias”, in Journal of European Economic History 53.2, July 2024, pp. 69-103 [Article]
- “Evergetismo antico e classi subalterne: Un caso di convergenze parallele?”, in Marcone A. (ed.), “Categorie gramsciane e ricerca antichistica”, Quaderni di Rivista Storica Italiana 5, Napoli 2024, pp. 43-58 [Essay]
- “Review of Emilio Zucchetti & Anna Maria Cimino (eds.), «Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World»”, in thersites 14, April 2022, pp. 188-196 [Review]
- “Class and Classics. Historiography, Reception, Challenges: Towards a Democratisation of Classical Studies (Newcastle University, webinar, 31st May-1st June 2021)”, in Bollettino di Studi Latini 51.2, July-December 2021, pp. 610-615 [Conference Report]
- “Togliatti e la storia di Roma tra interpretazioni gramsciane e falsificazioni fasciste”, in Rivista Storica Italiana 133.1, April 2021, pp. 69-102 [Article]
Presented Papers / Workshops
Presented Papers / Workshops
- May 2024: Conference Paper: “Women at the Intersection between Production and Euergetism. The Case of Roman Hierapolis” - Workshop “Understanding Ancient Women: New Approaches from Material Texts”, Uniwersytet Warszawski
- October 2023: Response in a Seminar Cycle: Respondant to J Weisweiler, "Exploitation, élite power and the nature of the late Roman Economy" - Oxford-Princeton Seminar series “Exploitation in the Ancient Mediterranean World”, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
- May 2023: Conference Paper: “Palmiro Togliatti's Attitude towards Ancient History in Politics between Theory and Practice” - Colloquium “The Politics of Classical Scholarship in Twentieth-Century Italy”, Newcastle University
- April 2023: Conference Paper: “‘If Someone will Act against these Provisions, They will Pay’. Ius Sepulchri in Roman Ephesus: A Case-Study in (Dis)Obedience to the Law” - Oxford-Princeton Annual Graduate Conference “Obedience: Actualities, Limits, Alternatives - Historical Analysis across the Ancient World”, Princeton University
- October 2022: Seminar: “Portrait of a Benefactress: Attalis Apphion in 1st-century Aphrodisias” - Oxford Ancient History Work in Progress Seminar series, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
- May 2022: Seminar: “Urban Élites and Civic Benefactions: Two Endowment Inscriptions from Hadrianic Aphrodisias” - Oxford Epigraphy Workshop series, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
- January 2021: Conference Paper: “Mare Nostrum. The Political Reuse of the Roman Concept of Natural Imperialistic Expansion in the Italian Historiography under the Fascist Regime” – Oxford-Princeton Annual Graduate Conference “The Natural and Unnatural in the Ancient World”, New College & Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
- July 2019: Talk: “‘Storia Romana in Scuola Fascista’: Gramsci, Togliatti, and the Didactics of Ancient History in Italian School” - 2nd Annual Meeting of the Gramsci Research Network, SOAS University of London
- July 2019: Poster: “‘Storia Romana in Scuola Fascista’: Gramsci, Togliatti, and the Didactics of Ancient History in Italian School” - Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques-Classical Association 2019 Annual Conference, University College of London