Governance
CASAM is governed by an international board composed of leading scholars in the field of ancient and medieval Mediterranean studies. The board oversees the strategic direction of the Center, guides its academic mission, and ensures its long-term development.
President
Prof. Dr. Marco Maiuro Professor of Ancient History, Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Maiuro is Professor of Roman History at Sapienza University of Rome and serves as President of CASAM. His research focuses on the social and economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world, with particular attention to the fiscal policies of Hellenistic and Roman states, agrarian production systems, social mobility, demography, urbanization patterns, and the role of state institutions in managing these dynamics. His work combines historical, epigraphic, archaeological, and quantitative approaches to explore the structural foundations of ancient economies and societies.
Before his appointment at Sapienza, Prof. Maiuro spent several years conducting research and teaching in the United States, including at Columbia University and New York University, as well as in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Greece. He has directed archaeological research projects in Italy (Hadrian’s Villa) and Kosovo (Ulpiana), leads teaching and research programs on Late Antiquity at Sapienza (CAF Tarda Antichità), and oversees the book series Pragmateiai devoted to the social and economic history of the ancient world. He is also co-editor of two recent volumes in the Oxford Handbook series and is completing a monograph on the monetary history of the Roman world (with E. Lo Cascio) for Cambridge University Press. Prof. Maiuro’s work is widely recognized for its methodological breadth and its contributions to advancing interdisciplinary approaches in ancient economic history.
Vice-President
Prof. Dr. Sabine R. Huebner Professor of Ancient History, University of Basel
Sabine R. Huebner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel. She is internationally recognized for her work on the social, religious, and environmental history of the ancient Mediterranean, with particular expertise in Roman Egypt and central Italy. Her current research investigates the long-term interactions between climate change, pandemics, and societal transformation, integrating palaeoclimate studies, archaeogenetics, bioarchaeology, and environmental archaeology with historical analysis. She has directed several major interdisciplinary research projects at the interface of the historical humanities and the palaeosciences.
Prof. Huebner was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and has held visiting professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Columbia University, New York University, and La Sapienza. She currently serves as General Editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and sits on the advisory boards of several international research initiatives and scholarly journals. Her research has been supported by major funding bodies, including the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the German Research Community (DFG) and the European Research Council (ERC). She regularly collaborates with international teams of historians, archaeologists, palaeoclimatologists, and geneticists, advancing interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the ancient world.
Scholarly Board
Info forthcoming.
