Dr. Pauline Cuzel

Fields of Interest

?   Greek and Latin epigraphy
?   Roman provincial administration
?   Inscriptions from Roman North African provinces
?   History of archaeology

Pauline Cuzel studied ancient history and epigraphy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. In her PhD thesis, she focused on the civil staff of Roman provincial governors during the Principate and combined epigraphical and archaeological evidence with literary and juridical sources in order to reconstruct the personal and professional networks that linked these individuals and the tasks that they were in charge of.

During her PhD, she worked as an archivist at the Musée d’Archéologie nationale (national archaeological museum) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and taught Latin and commentary of ancient sources at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Since her PhD defence, she has held a postdoctoral three-years position at the Ecole fran?aise de Rome (French archaeological institute in Rome).

Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since November 2023, she aims to understand the ways in which Roman empire was ruled by shedding light on the minor officials, soldiers, imperial slaves and freedmen who played crucial roles in day-to-day administration. More specifically, her current research project intends to propose a new publication and a new study of the 953 inscriptions from the Necropolis of the Officiales in Carthage (Tunisia).

Education and Career

?   2008-2010 : Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles (littéraires) - Lycée Henri-IV – Paris.
?   2010-2015: Specialized Diploma in Classics, Ecole normale Supérieure (Paris)
?   2011: BA in Classical Linguistic and Philology, Université Paris 4 – Sorbonne Université
?    2011-2013: MA in Classics, Ecole pratique des hautes études
?    2014: Agrégation externe de Lettres classiques (French teaching qualification in Classics), nationwide rank : 10th out of 75.
?   2015-2019: Archivist at the Musée d'Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
?   2015-2019: Teaching Assistant in the Latin department at the Ecole pratique des hautes-études, Paris.
?    2015-2021: PhD in Ancient Sciences (history, archaeology, languages and literatures) at the University PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres): "The governors’ civil staff in the Roman Provinces during the Principate", under the supervision of Pr. Fran?ois Bérard.
?   2019-2020: Teacher of Classics in a secondary school.
?   2020-2023: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Ecole fran?aise de Rome, Italy.
?   2021 – present: Co-Principal Investigator of the project "Corpus des inscriptions latines pa?ennes de Carthage", with S. Aounallah, INP (Tunisia). Research programme involving the ?cole fran?aise de Rome, the Tunisian Institut national du Patrimoine and the UMR 8546 - AOROC laboratory (CNRS-PSL).

Awards and Scholarships

?   2016: Scholarship granted by the Ecole fran?aise de Rome (1 month)
?   2018: Scholarship granted by the French Institute of Tunis (5 weeks)
?   2018: Visiting scholar at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich (3 weeks)
?   2019: Scholarship granted by the Ecole fran?aise de Rome (1 month)
?   2020-2023: Research fellowship at the Ecole fran?aise de Rome (3 years)
?   2021: Scholarship granted by the French Institute of Tunis (1 month)
?   2023: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellowship

Publications

a) Articles

“Les cimetières des officiales avant les officiales : occupation républicaine et proto-impériale du site de Bir-ez-Zitoun” [“The cemeteries of the officiales before the officiales: Republican and proto-imperial occupation of the site of Bir-ez-Zitoun”], accepted for printing in: L’Africa Romana, XII – L’Africa antica dall’età repubblicana ai Giulio-Claudii, éd : Aounallah, S., Hurlet, F., Ruggeri, P., Sassari.
“Studiosa cohors. Réflexions sur la présence d’hommes de lettres, de philosophes et de savants dans les entourages provinciaux de la République à la fin du Haut-Empire” [“Studiosa cohors. Reflections on the presence of writers, philosophers and scholars in the provincial entourages of the Republic at the end of the Principate”], Mélanges de l’Ecole fran?aise de Rome – Antiquité, 136/1, 2023, p. 219-235. doi.org/10.4000/mefra.14634
(with S. Aounallah, M. A. Chehidi, A. Chérif, L. Maurin, L.) “?pitaphes latines inédites et retrouvées de Thugga” [“Unpublished and rediscovered Latin epitaphs of Thugga”], Chroniques d’Archéologie maghrébine, 1, 2022, p. 71-128.
“Les deux metae du cirque de Thugga (Dougga): nouvelles lectures” [“The two metae of the Thugga circus: new readings”], Antiquités africaines, 58, 2022, p. 35-48. doi.org/10.4000/antafr.5218
“Thuburbo Maius et Carthage sous le Haut-Empire” [“Thuburbo Maius and Carthage during the Principate”], Actes de la table ronde sur la pertica des Carthaginois (Chroniques d’Archéologie maghrébine, 1), 2022, p. 528-563.
(with S. Morinière), “Portrait croisé de trois correspondants au c?ur de la collecte archéologique de la Commission de topographie des Gaules” [“Cross portrait of three correspondents involved in the archaeological collection of the Commission de topographie des Gaules”]. Accepted for printing in: Collecter, collectionner, conserver, Actes du 145e congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, 4-7 mai 2021.
(with S. Aounallah, V. Brouquier-Reddé, H. Abidi, H. Ben Romdhane, A. Chérif) “Topographie, architecture et épigraphie cultuelle de Dougga (Afrique proconsulaire)” [“Topography, Architecture and Cultual Epigraphy of Dougga (Africa Proconsularis)”], in: L. Ben Abid, F. Prados, M. Grira, De Carthage à Carthagène. B?tir en Afrique et en Ibérie durant l’Antiquité, colloque international organisé en avril 2019 à Tunis, Alicante, 2020, p. 437-476.
“Redécouverte de la carte des bornes milliaires réalisée par Antoine-Marie Héron de Villefosse en 1878” [“Rediscovery of the milestone map made by Antoine-Marie Héron de Villefosse in 1878”], Antiquités nationales, 49, 2019-2020, p. 73-85. hal.science/hal-02936450
“Le fonds d’archives épigraphiques du musée d’Archéologie nationale” [“The epigraphic archive of the Musée d’Archéologie nationale”], Antiquités nationales, 47, 2017, p. 185-197. hal.science/hal-02936434
(with C. Jouys-Barbelin), “Les archives du musée d’Archéologie nationale et la constitution d’une collection épigraphique nationale (1862-1926)” [“The archives of the Musée d’Archéologie nationale and the constitution of a national epigraphic collection (1862-1926)”]. Accepted for printing in: Actes du colloque international à l’occasion des 150e de l’ouverture du musée d’Archéologie nationale ? Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914), un héritage en quête de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle ?, Cahiers du Musée d’Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
(with C. Jouys-Barbelin), “Une archéologie nationale dans le cadre de la Commission de Topographie des Gaules : des approches traditionnelles et une institution structurante pour des objectifs inédits” [“National archaeology within the framework of the Commission de Topographie des Gaules: traditional approaches and a structuring institution for new goals”], Organon, 49, p. 183-220. hal.science/hal-02936423
“De l’usage des listes épigraphiques pour l’étude de l’entourage des gouverneurs de province sous le Haut-Empire : l’exemple des listes de Samothrace” [“The use of epigraphic lists for the study of the entourage of provincial governors during the Principate : the example of the lists of Samothrace”]. Accepted for printing in: Concordances – revue de l’Association des jeunes chercheurs en Histoire.

b) Book chapters

“Gouverner par les inscriptions” [“Ruling by inscriptions”], in: S. Destephen, Gouverner l’Empire romain de Trajan à 410 ap. J.-C., Paris, 2023, p. 123-129.
“Le latin et le grec à Dougga” [“Latin and Greek in Dougga”], in: S. Aounallah, V. Brouquier-Reddé, J.-C. Golvin, L. Maurin (éd.), Splendeurs de Dougga. De la cité royale à la colonie romaine, Khezama-Est-Sousse, 2022, p. 269-273.
“Les acteurs de la religion romaine – introduction Générale” [“The actors of the Roman religion - general introduction”], in: C. Husquin, C. Landrea, Religions et pouvoir dans le monde romain de 218 av. J.-C. à 250 ap. J.-C., Paris, 2020, p. 133-146.