Alte Geschichte

Dr. Eugenia Vitello

TEA-Lehrbeauftragte

Kontakt

Wilhelmstr. 36, Raum 508, 72074 Tübingen

07071 / 29 78501 (secretary's office)

eugenia.vitellospam prevention@gmail.com

April 2026 – current
Lecturer in Ancient History

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte

October 2025 – March 2026
Lecturer in Ancient History

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte

August 2025
DPhil (PhD) in Ancient History

University of Oxford, Brasenose College (dissertation: “Gendering Wealth. Women and Economic Agency in Roman Asia”)

October 2024 – September 2025
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

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]
  • “«What did the Romans do for us?» The Construction of Social Identity and Community-Belonging through the Ephesian Burial Fines”, in Kuhn C. – Chin M. (eds.), Community and Belonging in Roman Asia Minor, Oxford forthcoming [book chapter]
  • “Women at the Intersection Between Production and Euergetism. The Case of Roman Hierapolis”, in Stafford G. – Frank K. (eds.), “Understanding Ancient Women”, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2027, forthcoming [essay in a peer-reviewed special issue]
  • “A World of Cities. Urbanism in the Ancient Mediterranean”, in The Classical Review, 2026, forthcoming [review article under contract]
  • “The Politics of Syme's Revolution”, in Barja de Quiroga P. L. (ed.), “Elites y Massas”, Revista de Historiografía 40, 2025, pp. 31-56 [essay in a peer-reviewed special issue – 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 [peer-reviewed 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 [peer-reviewed article]