Giovanni Ruffini

Giovanni Ruffini's current research interests include the Roman world in late antiquity and its contemporary Nubian and Ethiopian civilizations. During his year at ISAW he will be revising his dissertation, Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), and preparing a prosopography of the Byzantine village of Aphrodito. Future research projects include a prosopographical study of Nubian land sales and an analysis of the Ethiopic inheritance of Greco-Roman historiography. Giovanni has just completed a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University, where he taught The Roman World in Late Antiquity and The Early Christian Church. He received an A.B. in European history from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in the history of Europe before 1500 from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University.