Claudia Moatti

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Claudia Moatti
Born (1954-02-19) 19 February 1954 (age 69)
NationalityFrench
Alma mater École normale supérieure de Sèvres
Occupation Historian specialised in Roman studies
Employer(s) Paris 8 University, University of Southern California
Notable work The Search for Ancient Rome ;
Res publica : Histoire romaine de la chose publique

Claudia Moatti (also known as Claude Moatti; born 19 February 1954) [1] is a French historian specialised in ancient Roman Studies. She is currently professor of Roman history at University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and Adjunct Professor of Classics and Law at the University of Southern California (USC). [2] [3]

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Career

Moatti studied classics at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in France, where she specialised in political thought and the crisis in culture that arose at the end of the Roman Republic and in the early Roman Empire, a period around the 2nd century BC to 1st century AD. [4]

She earned her PhD in History at the Paris-Sorbonne University, [5] and taught at the University of Paris. She is also a former member of the staff of the French Academy in Rome. She has done research on the history of the discovery of ancient Rome and the "invention" of Roman archaeology in the late 1980s. The first findings of this project is presented in her book À la recherche de la Rome antique . [4]

Moatti has been a full professor at USC since 2004. [5] She has published a number of books and articles. She is interested in the construction of the concept of Res publica , her book on this subject—Res publica : Histoire romaine de la chose publique—has been published in April 2018, by Fayard. [6] She is currently working on four books. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Moatti, Claudia (1954-....)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "MOATTI CLAUDIA". univ-paris8.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Claudia Moatti – Adjunct Professor of Classics and Law". dornsife.usc.edu. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 Moatti, Claude (1993). The Search for Ancient Rome. 'New Horizons' series. Translated by Zielonka, Anthony. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 208. ISBN   978-0-500-30026-8. About the author
  5. 1 2 3 "Claudia Moatti". gould.usc.edu. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  6. ↑ Bastière, Jean-Marc (21 June 2018). "Res publica, de Claudia Moatti : les racines romaines de la chose publique". Le Figaro (in French). Paris. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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