Alejandro is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the combined program in Classics and History. He graduated with a BA in Classical Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, where he wrote a senior thesis on local migration in the Arsinoite nome of Roman Egypt.
His research encompasses the socio-cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt (and the broader eastern Mediterranean), with particular emphasis on migration and rural society, as accessed through papyrology. His dissertation project seeks to reevaluate the overlooked subject of mobility and migration in Greco-Roman Egypt.
He is also interested in the socio-cultural history of southwestern Anatolia, especially in mobility from Caria and Lycia to Egypt.
He currently takes part in the Egyptian-American excavations at Hermopolis Magna (el-Ashmunein).
email: alejandro.quintana@yale.edu