CAFARO ALBERTO

Alberto
Cafaro
Ricercatore Legge 240/10 - tempo determinato

Presentation

I graduated in “Ancient Topography” at the University of Pisa in 2013. In 2017, I obtained a PhD in “Storia e Orientalistica” (“History and Oriental Studies”), with a thesis devoted to the praefectura fabrum, an institutional post attested between the end of the 2nd century. B.C. and the third century. A.D. I spent research periods in Strasbourg, at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (2015), and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the School of History, Classics, and Archeology - Newcastle University (2016).

From 2019 to 2022, I was an Adjunct Professor of Roman History at the University of Siena – Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e dei beni culturali (DSSBC). Between 2021 and 2023, I was a post-doc Research Fellow at the University of Pisa.

In 2023, I got a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at the University of Siena – Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature antiche e moderne (DFCLAM), where I teach Economic and Social History of the Roman World and Latin Epigraphy.

My areas of expertise are the economic and social history of the Roman world, in the Late Republic and the Early Empire. My research interests include the history of institutions, the practice of politics, economy, and epigraphic culture of the Roman world. My research so far has been mostly focused on the local elites in Italy and the provinces, their profiles, interests, and resources. Recently, I have been dealing with the History of Italian Classical Historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries.

I take active part in international projects, focused on the development of Epigraphy and Prosopography in a digital environment (EDR – Epigraphic Database Rome; Epigraphy.info. A Collaborative Environment for Digital Epigraphy; APR. Amici Populi Romani. Prosopographie der auswärtigen Freunde Roms). I am responsible for the epigraphic evidence for international archaeological research projects (Vada; Luni) and I am a member of the Material Culture Lab for the Misis Höyük Excavation Project (Turkey). I am a member of the Ancient Topography Lab at the University of Pisa; a member of the Società Storica Pisana; a member of the Centro di Studi Sallustiani de L’Aquila; a member of the scientific committee of the series “Studi di archeologia e storia del mondo antico e medievale” (Edizioni ETS – Pisa).

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 12:00 to 13:00
    Place: Palazzo San Niccolò, Stanza 350 - via Roma 56, Siena; telefono: 0577-23 2937.
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  • Wednesday from 12:00 to 13:00
    Place: Palazzo San Niccolò, Stanza 350 - via Roma 56, Siena; telefono: 0577-23 2937.
    Note: Il ricevimento si svolge in presenza; se richiesti, ricevimenti da remoto si terranno nell'aula virtuale GMeet: meet.google.com/izv-kiea-kua

Contacts

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching activities

Completion accademic year: 2025/2026

Course year: 2 Full cicle (5 years) PRIMARY TEACHER EDUCATION A.Y. 2024/2025

Completion accademic year: 2024/2025

Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2024/2025
Course year: 2 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2023/2024

Completion accademic year: 2023/2024

Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2023/2024
Course year: 2 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2022/2023

Completion accademic year: 2021/2022

Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) HISTORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE A.Y. 2021/2022

Completion accademic year: 2020/2021

Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) HISTORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE A.Y. 2020/2021

Completion accademic year: 2019/2020

Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) HISTORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE A.Y. 2019/2020

Research

Selected publications:

  • Cafaro, A. (2023). Ettore Pais, 'un giovane laboriosissimo': lettere e documenti (1878–1884). HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP, 5, 211-322. - view more
  • Cafaro, A. (2023). Un paesaggio rurale dell’Etruria settentrionale: iscrizioni latine dal Medio Valdarno inferiore. In A. Malvolti, G. Vannini (a cura di), Insediamenti e manifatture fra Toscana e mondo mediterraneo: ricerche archeologiche e documentarie (medioevo-età moderna) per Andrea Vanni Desideri (pp. 223-228). Sesto Fiorentino : All'Insegna del Giglio. - view more
  • Cafaro, A. (2023). Senate, 980-981. - view more
  • Cafaro, A. (2023). Duoviri a Luna: le domus di Porta Marina e le risorse del notabilato lunense all’avvento del Principato. FOLD&R.(560), 1-19. - view more
  • Cafaro, A. (2023). Perdute e (ri)trovate: le iscrizioni latine dalla villa di Loro, Empoli. ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PAPYROLOGIE UND EPIGRAPHIK, 226, 281-286. - view more