Network Members: Miriam Groen-Vallinga

 Miriam Groen-Vallinga

Based at Radboud University Nijmegen as an assistant professor, Miriam’s research aims to bring into focus those Romans who are less well represented in our source material, contributing to a comprehensive approach of the ancient population by means of a more integrative analysis of the ancient evidence. Her book, Work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy (LUP 2022), presents an inclusive discussion of the working population starting from funerary epigraphy. The book illustrates, among other things, how the unremunerated contributions of women and children and the role of labour market segmentation along gendered lines are important to our understanding of the urban economy. In her current research she focuses more on the materiality and lived reality of slavery and its afterlife, which in Roman society had a noticeably economic component, and where enslaved or formerly enslaved women in particular suffered a double marginality.

 

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