Alejandro Quintana is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the combined program in Classics and History. His research encompasses the socio-cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt, with an emphasis on migration and rural society. He is currently writing a dissertation titled “Mobility Makes History: Human Migration in Greco-Roman Egypt” that highlights the importance of human movement in shaping, transforming, and sustaining ancient societies.
Alejandro takes part in the Egyptian-American excavations at Hermopolis Magna (el-Ashmunein) and is working on an article that revises how textual evidence is used to interpret the archeology of the site. As papyrology is central to his work as a historian, he is editing an archive of administrative documents from Roman Tebtynis that offers a micro-historical perspective into the interaction between state and local actors and is preparing editions of several texts recently excavated from the necropolis of Philadelphia.
Email: alejandro.quintana@yale.edu