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23 september 2024
My project explores identity formation in the inter-imperial world in the early modern Mediterranean. Specifically, I examine how the seventeenth-century Aegean populations responded to the arrival of foreign powers. In contrast to previous scholarship that has...
23 september 2024
In my master’s thesis, I challenge Nicola Terrenato’s perspective on early Roman imperialism, which involves a magnified role for the private agendas of Italian elites vis-à-vis state agendas, by means of a thorough quantitative analysis of both the literary and...
19 september 2024
My research focuses on the question how the populace of Roman Sicily used inscribed (Greek and Latin) funerarymonuments to formulate and anchor their identity in light of Roman hegemony. I study ca. 1700 Sicilian inscribedfunerary monuments. A research stay in Rome...
19 september 2024
Urban innovation is crucial to understanding the changes of the Roman republic between the mid-second and mid-first centuries BCE. This period has seen some investigation into urban monumentality, but a holistic perspective of change and innovation is missing. Turning...
19 september 2024
My thesis research will focus on gender and youth culture in Fascist Italy, specifically looking at how the Piccole Italiane (PI) were portrayed by Fascist publications, such as magazines, newspapers, photographs, and musical scores. In doing so, I will examine...
