Claudia Moatti


Claudia Moatti is a French historian specialised in Roman studies. She is currently professor of Roman history at University of Paris VIII, and adjunct professor of Classics and Law at the University of Southern California.

Career

Moatti studied classics at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in France, where she specialised in political thought and the crisis in culture that arose at the end of the Roman Republic and in the early Roman Empire, a period around the 2nd century BC to 1st century AD.
She earned her PhD in History at the Paris-Sorbonne University, and taught at the University of Paris. She is also a former member of the staff of the French Academy in Rome. She has done research on the history of the discovery of ancient Rome and the "invention" of Roman archaeology in the late 1980s. The first findings of this project is presented in her book The Search for Ancient Rome.
Moatti has been a full professor at USC since 2004. She has published a number of books and articles. She is interested in the construction of the concept of Res publica, her book on this subject—Res publica : Histoire romaine de la chose publique—has been published in April 2018, by Fayard. She is currently working on four books.

Selected publications