MARCO MAIURO

Marco Maiuro (CV breve, 2025)
Marco Maiuro is Professor of Roman History at Sapienza, University of Rome, Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, former full Professor and currently Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia University in the city of New York. He obtained a PhD from the University of Trieste and the French CNRS; he was recipient of several post-doctoral fellowships, from the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in the US (twice) to the A. von Humboldt Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Marie Curie Fellowship.
He works mainly on social and economic history topics, with special emphasis on demographic, monetary, agrarian and fiscal history. He has written a monograph on the economics of public land in the Principate, and edited 10 volumes on topics related to economic and social history of the ancient world. He is planning a monograph completing the study of public goods in the late antique period. He has recently edited the Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000-49 BCE), a 900 page volume with 50 chapters, which is intended to be a point of reference for historical research in the domain of Italic and pre-Roman history; he is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of the Economies of the Greek and Roman World, the manuscript of which is nearing completion. This latest work by several hands (with A. Bresson and E. Lo Cascio among others) aims to become a milestone in a field of study open like few others to contamination with other disciplines (economics, sociology, demography, environmental studies etc.).
In his research he has dealt mainly with the Roman age (archaic, republican, imperial and late imperial); however, he has also written on Greek and Hellenistic history, early middle ages and the history of historiography. He has written articles on historical problems centered on Italy, North Africa, Anatolia and Egypt and has published or commented on documents relevant to the above topics (inscriptions, both Greek and Latin and in pre-Roman languages, papyri, archival sources, literary sources in various Mediterranean languages). His research on demography has produced some pieces whose focus spans from protohistoric to high medieval data, encompassing and dealing with matters such as urbanization rate, carrying capacity, dietary patterns, economic performance.
He is co-director of the Pragmateiai series (Edipuglia), the only academic series devoted exclusively to social and economic history of the Mediterranean basin. He serves as referee for monographs on economic and social history of the ancient world for Oxford University Press, for Cambridge University Press, and is on the Editorial Board of the Liverpool Series on Ancient History.
He is also involved in outreach and promotes the dissemination of the teachings of ancient history to a wider audience in multidisciplinary (communication, leadership, change management) lifelong learning contexts.