Lorenzo Calvelli

I am an Associate Professor in Ancient History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
In 2005, I earned a joint PhD (Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Doctorate Scheme) in «History and Archaeology of the Mediterranean Countries» from the Universities of Venice and Paris Nanterre. As a student, I was granted scholarships at the following international institutions: University of Warwick (1997/1998), University of Cyprus (1999), Swedish Institute in Rome (2000/2001), University College London (2002), École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (2004), Institute of Classical Studies, London (2004). I was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2005), the Warburg Institute, London (2007), the Villa I Tatti – Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence (2009/2010), and the Centro di Studi e Ricerche sui Diritti Antichi – CEDANT, Pavia (2010).
In 2011, I was appointed to a tenure-track Lectureship in Ancient History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. In 2014, I received tenure, and in 2019 I was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2015, I was a stipendiary visiting fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies (Princeton University). In 2018, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney. In 2019, while being affiliated as a visiting scholar with Merton College, I received a Sassoon Visiting Fellowship from the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
My research interests focus on ancient history and classical epigraphy, on the uses of the past, on the history of classical scholarship, on the study of forgeries, and on the potential of the Digital Humanities. I have been an invited lecturer in numerous academic institutions and international conferences, both in Europe and Overseas. I regularly serve as a peer reviewer for programmes sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education and the European Commission, as well as for manuscripts submitted to scientific journals. I am the author of over 60 contributions published as book chapters or articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. In 2009, I published my book Cipro e la memoria dell'antico fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, which was awarded the Honor Prize «Caterina De Cia Bellati Canal». In 2014, I published with G. Cresci Marrone and F. Rohr Vio a Handbook of Roman History (Il Mulino, Bologna; 2nd edition: 2020), which was a finalist at the National Prize for Scientific Dissemination. In 2019, I co-edited two major Open Access volumes on the manuscript tradition of inscriptions and on epigraphic forgeries (http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-374-8 http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-386-1).
I am the Principal Investigator of a collaborative research project sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education on epigraphic forgeries, which involves over 50 scholars from all over Italy for the years 2017-2021. At my home institution, I coordinate a vast interdisciplinary Research Institute on Digital Cultural Heritage, which counts over 100 members. I also sit on the board of the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology, which was founded in Venice in 2019, thanks to a cooperation with the Italian Institute of Technology.
In 2019, I founded with Federico Santangelo (Newcastle) the online Open Access journal History of Classical Scholarship (HCS), of which we are both general editors (https://www.hcsjournal.org). I am also a member of the Editorial Committees of The Journal of Epigraphic Studies, Italia Epigrafica Digitale, Current Epigraphy, and Quaderni del Ramo d'Oro. In 2020, I co-founded a new Open Access series of books on Cyprus, titled Studi Ciprioti. I also serve in the Editorial Board of the series Mediterranean Nexus, published by Brepols, Venetia / Venezia - Quaderni di storia e antichità lagunari, published by L'Erma di Bretschneider, Studi e testi di Epigrafia, published by Edizioni dell'Orso, Papyrotheke. Studi e testi di papirologia e cultura scrittoria antica, published by Athenaeum Edizioni Universitarie, Urbana Species. Vita di città nell'Italia e nell'Impero romano, published by Edizioni Quasar, and Beyond Language, published by Academic Publishing (San Diego, USA). I have co-organised numerous National and International Conferences, among which the XXIII Rencontre franco-italienne sur l'épigraphie du monde romain.
I am a member of the British Epigraphy Society, the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, and the Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL), on whose International Committee I represent Italy for the term 2017-2022. I am also a charter member and member of the Scientific Board of Terra Italia, the largest Italian non-profit association for the study of ancient Italy, of which I was Secretary General.
Address: Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia
Dorsoduro 3484/D                 
30123 – VENEZIA