Mireille Corbier

Mireille Corbier is a French historian of Classical history. Currently Research Director Emerita at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, she has published a number of books and articles, and since 1992 has been editor-in-chief of L'Année épigraphique.

Career

Corbier began her studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure, during which she became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1967 to 1972 she taught ancient history at the University of Paris, X Nanterre. From 1972 to 1975 she was a member of the École française de Rome, where she produced her monograph, L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale. She then joined CNRS in 1975, meanwhile teaching anthropology at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes.

Awards

Corbier is a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, and a member of several professional associations and learned societies. She gave the M. V. Taylor lecture for the Roman Society in January 2020.