Giovanni Geraci is ordinary (full) professor of Roman History and
Papyrology in the University of Bologna. His main research field is
history of the political, administrative, social, economic and
religious systems, institutions and structures of the Roman and
Late Antique worlds, with particular focus on Hellenistic, Roman
and Late Antique Egypt. He also published critical editions of both
Greek and Latin inscriptions and of Greek papyri of the
Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique age. He is Director and General
Editor of scientific periodicals and series on relevant aspects of
the study of administrative patterns and structures of the ancient
world. Since 1985, he is also Coordinator of national and
international research groups. He has been consultant for
international endowments and member of university committees with
organizing and coordinative tasks in scientific researches. He is
elected ordinary member of the European Academy - History section.
He has been visiting professor in many Italian and foreign
institutions and he is professeur invité à l'Université de Paris I
Panthéon Sorbonne, where he is working within the research group on
the Monumentum Ephesenum and on state contracts in the Ancient
World. He cooperates in researches on "La Mémoire perdue. À la
recherche des archives oubliées, publiques et privées, de la Rome
antique". He is also Visiting Professor of the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Marseille and of the Maison
Méditerranéenne de Sciences de l'Homme and is full member of
international research programmes on: "Le ravitaillement des villes
de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne" and RAMSES2 on: "Entrepôts et
trafics annonaires en Méditerranée. Antiquité – Temps modernes". He
is professeur invité à l'Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot and
of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
de Paris where he works within networks in research
programmes.