Ballot Archive

16 Mar 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Valentina Arena

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Laurea (Florence), PhD (London)

Profession or occupation

Professor of Ancient History, University College London

Grounds for election

Valentina Arena is an internationally distinguished Roman historian. Her work focuses mainly on the history of ancient ideas and ancient political thought as well as the wider intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic, with a particular interest in the fields of Roman oratory and antiquarianism. In her work on Roman liberty, she has investigated ancient theories of liberty and how they relate to their intellectual and political contexts as well as their potential contributions to contemporary political debates. She is also interested in antiquarianism, with a particular focus on Varro, ancient philosophy of language, and Roman constitutionalism. Most recently, she has been awarded funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project "Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians"; the project begun in November 2020 and will run for five years.

Signatories

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