Residency: Columbia Global Center Athens
Research: Romans Abroad: Citizenship, Place, and Empire
Sailakshmi Ramgopal is a Roman historian whose work explores mobilities and identities in the Roman world. Her current book project, Romans Abroad: Citizenship, Place, and Empire, identifies the logics and modalities by which associations of Roman traders interacted with non-Romans outside the Italian peninsula, and traces the long-term, recursive effects of those dynamic interactions on the sociopolitical structures and cultural frameworks of the Roman empire.