Personal Statement
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the ACE department at the University of Liverpool. I obtained a BA and an MA in Classical Philology and Ancient History from the University of Pisa, and a PhD in Ancient Greek History from UCL. I am interested in the politico-administrative and economic systems of the Mediterranean city-states during the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods with a major focus on Cyprus, and in ancient mobility investigated through travellers’ graffiti and marks, especially in desert remote landscapes.

My first book 'Kypriōn Politeia, the political and administrative systems of the Classical Cypriot city-kingdoms' (Brill 2022) - which won the CRABA Award 2023, and a book prize from the Instituto Italiano per la Storia Antica (Rome) - investigates the political and administrative systems of the Classical Cypriot city-states focusing on the roles of magistracies and assemblies beyond Cypriot kings. My Leverhulme project, ‘Rethinking regionalism and power in Hellenistic Cyprus’, analyses long term developments of Archaic and Classical Cypriot institutions in the Hellenistic period, such as the role played by local elites in the administrations of cities and continuity in local administrative practices. It also considers phenomena of local resistance to the imposition of Ptolemaic imperial rule, extending its focus beyond Cyprus. As postdoctoral fellow (2022-2024) at The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (University of Haifa), I studied the connections between Cyprus and the Levant in the Archaic period (8th-6th cent. BC). Since 2022, I am member of the Mitzpe Shivta Archaeological Project - PI Dr. Sina Lehnig - as a Greek epigraphist, where I edit and translate Greek graffiti found on the site, a Byzantine monastery in the Negev desert (6th cent. AD). I have been Fellow in Hellenic studies (2022-2023) at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS, Harvard University), Young Researcher fellow at the Fondation Hardt (2024), Hisoma lauréat (2025) at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (MOM), Université Lyon 2, and visiting fellow of the project ‘Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems’ (PI Pippa Steele) at the University of Cambridge (2022). I have regularly thought Classics in the ‘London Summer School in Classics’, organised by UCL (Department of Greek and Latin), Ancient Greek and Near-East History, and I have delivered classes of Ancient Greek language at Royal Holloway University of London as a visiting tutor.

Research Overview
My research focuses on the politico-administrative institutions and economic systems of Mediterranean city-states throughout the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, with a particular emphasis on Cyprus. I explore how the Achaemenid Empire and the Hellenistic kingdoms influenced the economy of these city-states and triggered the development of local forms of government. I also investigate Mediterranean socio-cultural connections, ancient mobility, and women roles in Ancient Cyprus and Levant. All my studies are conducted through the analysis of inscriptions on different support materials such as stones, ostraka, clay tablets, vessels, written in different languages and scripts all attested on Cyprus, including alphabetic Greek, Phoenician, Cypriot-syllabic Greek and Cypriot-syllabic Eteocypriot, an indigenous language that remains undeciphered. Recently, my research interests have expanded to include the examination of travelers' graffiti in desert areas such as Negev, Sinai, and Sahara.