Giusto Traina

Giusto Traina (born 1959) is a prominent Italian ancient historian and Byzantinist. Since 2011 he has been professor of Roman history at Sorbonne Université, and a former senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2014-2019). He is the author of numerous books and articles. Formerly interested in ancient landscapes and techniques, he is currently involved in a long-term research about ancient Armenia.

Giusto Traina, Turin, December 2012

He was awarded the Premio Nazionale 'Cherasco Storia' (2011) for his book La resa di Roma. Battaglia a Carre, 9 giugno 53 a.C. (Laterza 2010).[1]

He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique de la recherche historique de la Défense.

He was recently Fellow of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Summer 2014), of the Bogliasco Foundation (February 2016), and of the Topoi Excellence Cluster at Berlin (Spring 2016; Summer 2017). He was Dumanian Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (Spring term 2017). He is presently visiting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

In the Anglophone world he is most noted for his book 428 AD : An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Princeton, 2009), in which he which gives a panoramic view across the geographical extents of the Roman Empire in a single year.[2]

References
  1. "I vincitori dell'edizione 2011 del premio "Cherasco Storia"". Comune di Cherasco Portale Instituzionale. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  2. Holland, Tom. "Tom Holland on the fall of Rome". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

Publication list at the Comité Français des Études Byzantines (CFSB): http://www.cfeb.org/curiculum/mb_traina.pdf.

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