Catherine Virlouvet


Catherine Virlouvet is a French historian, a professor of economic and social history of ancient Rome. In 2011, she was appointed director of the École française de Rome, the first woman ever to hold that post.

Career

A former student of the , and agrégée d'histoire, she supported a thesis on Roman history entitled Tessera frumentaria : les procédures de distribution du blé public à Rome de la fin de la République au Haut-Empire in 1986. A member of the École française de Rome, she was maître de conférences of ancient history at the university of Rouen then director of studies of the ancient section of antiquities of the École française de Rome. She was appointed a professor of ancient history at the Aix-Marseille University in 1999, and heads the École française de Rome since September 2011. A student of Claude Nicolet, she specialized in economic and social history of Rome at the end of the Republic and under the High Empire.

Books