Governance

An international board of leading scholars

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.

Chiusi Painter, Vintage by Sileni and Maenads. Attic black-figure cup, end of the 6th century BCE.

President

Prof. Dr. Marco Maiuro

Professor of Ancient History, Sapienza University of Rome

Marco Maiuro holds a professorship in Roman History at Sapienza and presides over CASAM. His scholarly interests center on the social and economic dimensions of the ancient Mediterranean, with emphasis on the fiscal policies of Hellenistic and Roman states, agrarian production systems, demographic patterns, urban development, and institutional frameworks. He employs historical, epigraphic, archaeological, and quantitative methodologies to examine the foundational elements of ancient economies and societies.

Prof. Maiuro has conducted research and teaching across multiple countries — the United States (Columbia, NYU), Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Greece. He directs archaeological initiatives at Hadrian's Villa and Ulpiana (Kosovo), leads Late Antiquity teaching programmes at Sapienza, and supervises the Pragmateiai book series on ancient social and economic history. He co-edited recent Oxford Handbook volumes and is completing a Cambridge University Press monograph on Roman monetary history (with E. Lo Cascio).

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Mosaic with rural scenes, 1st–2nd century CE, Caesarea (Cherchell), Roman Numidia. Musée Archéologique.

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 and an internationally recognised specialist in the social, religious, and environmental history of the ancient Mediterranean, with particular expertise in Roman Egypt and central Italy. Her current research examines the long-term interactions between climate variability, disease, and societal change, integrating paleoclimate scholarship, archaeogenetics, bioarchaeology, and environmental archaeology with historical inquiry.

Prof. Huebner was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and has held visiting positions at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, and Sapienza. She is General Editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and serves in advisory roles across international scholarly networks. Her work has been supported by leading funders including the SNSF, DFG, and the ERC, and she collaborates internationally across history, archaeology, paleoclimatology, and genetics.

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Scholarly Board

The composition of the Scholarly Board will be announced here.