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Yanne Broux Born in Lier, Belgium on October 28 1985. PATRIMONIVM ERC project Institut Ausonius Université Bordeaux-Montaigne yanne.broux@kuleuven.be yanne.broux@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr

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3000 Leuven +32 494 39 13 38

personal website: www.trismegistos.org/staff/broux blog: historicaldataninjas.com

CURRENT POSITION

2017 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher, PATRIMONIVM, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne Associated member of the department of Ancient History, KU Leuven

PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS

2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral researcher, department of Ancient History, KU Leuven 2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher (Research Foundation Flanders [FWO]) at the

department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven 2015 Postdoctoral researcher at the Papyrological Institute, Leiden University 2012 – 2013 Postdoctoral researcher
(KU Leuven Research Council) at the department of

Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven

EDUCATION

2008 – 2012 PhD in Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven 2007 – 2008 Master in Ancient History (summa cum laude)
Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
 2004 – 2007 Bachelor in History: major Ancient History/ minor Syro-Mesopotamia (magna

cum laude) Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven

FUNDING

2016 ‘Krediet aan navorsers’ (€20,900) by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

AWARDS

2015 Digital Humanities Awards 2014: ‘Best Blog Post or Series of Blog Posts’ 2014 The YouReCa Challenge by the KU Leuven Career Center (2nd runner up)

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PHD SUPERVISION

2015 – 2021 N. Dogaer, ‘Ptolemaic State Monopolies: Predation or Prosperity?’
PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven), co-supervisor

PHD COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

2017 – 2021 W. Verdonk, ‘The Intercultural Dynamics throughout the Ancient Mediterranean. A Comparative Study of the Goddesses Athena and Ἁnath’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)

2013 – 2017 
 G. Baetens, ‘Dispute Resolution in Ptolemaic Egypt: Adjudicative and Consensual Strategies towards Order in Classical Society’
PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)

2013 – 2017 A. Blasco-Torres, ‘Rendering of Egyptian Names in Greek: Regional Differentiation’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven in co-direction with Salamanca)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2018 – 2019 Master thesis, Master of Digital Humanities, KU Leuven (1 student) 2018 – 2019 Historical Data Management: database layout, Master of History, KU Leuven 2018 – 2019 Introduction to DH: network analysis, Master of Digital Humanities, KU

Leuven 2017 – 2018 Introduction to DH: network analysis, Master of Digital Humanities, KU

Leuven 2017 – 2018 Social Network Analysis, Sunoikisis Digital Cultural Heritage

2015 – 2016 Bachelor thesis, Bachelor of History, KU Leuven (5 students) 2014 – 2015 Master thesis, Master of Ancient History, KU Leuven (2 students) 2012 – 2016 Ancient Greek historical texts A: reading and grammar, Bachelor of History,

KU Leuven 2010 – 2011 Ancient Greek historical texts B: grammar, Bachelor of History, KU Leuven

IT EXPERIENCE

Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Filemaker Pro 7-17, Gephi, UCINET, R Mark-up and programming languages: HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, basic XML

DATABASE MANAGEMENT (TRISMEGISTOS [TM])

2017 – 2020 TM Ousiai, integrated in the Atlas Patrimonii Caesaris (patrimonium.huma-num.fr/atlas/index): a database of imperial estates in Egypt

2016 – now Supervision parsing Latin inscriptions: 895,412 clusters in 451,860 texts 2015 – now TM Networks management 2014 – now TM People management 2014 Updating TM People with geographical identifiers: 4,830 places of residence 2012 – now Updating TM People with status markers: 3,523 titles 2012 Review of genealogical identifiers in TM People: 14,514 attestations 2011 Setting up a prosopography of individuals with a double name: 8,383

attestations of 4,515 different people

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2010 – 2011 Prosopographical identification of individuals and extraction of genealogical information from texts: 7,594 texts and 103,374 attestations

2009 – 2010 Review of anthroponyms and toponyms in texts to solve ambiguities and omit residue (theonyms, numbers, …): 98,840 forms

2009 Updating TM’s onomastic structure on the basis of the extraction of names from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri: 42,114 variants of 33,904 names

PUBLICATIONS

Books as author • BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names and Elite Strategy in Roman Egypt (Studia Hellenistica 54),

Leuven, 312 pp. • BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names in Roman Egypt: A Prosopography (Trismegistos Online

Publications 8), Leuven, 368 pp. ().

Books as editor • BODARD, G., BROUX, Y. and TARTE, S. (eds.) (2016), Digital Classics: Special Edition (Bulletin of

the Institute of Classical Studies 59.2), London (in print). • DEPAUW, M., BROUX, Y. (eds.) (2014). Acts of the 10th International Congress of Demotic

Studies. Leuven, 26-30 August 2008 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 231), Leuven, 390 pp.

Articles in international peer-reviewed journals and books • BROUX, Y., PIETOWSKI, F. (2019), ‘Trismegistos’ TOMATILLO. A New Tool to Visualize Related

Data in an Online Environment’, M. BÁRTA and V. DULÍKOVÁ (eds.), Social Network Analysis: The Case of Ancient Egypt, Prague (accepted).

• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘An Improved Weighed Dates Method for Ancient People’, Ancient Society (accepted).

• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Things Can Only Get Better for Socrates and his Crocodile. How Onomastics Can Benefit from Digital Humanities’, Classical Quarterly (accepted).

• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Ἀπάτορες in Roman Egypt. A Mexican Standoff?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (accepted).

• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Tracing the Elite from Ptolemy to Diocletian. Identifiers as clues of Privileged Status in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, R. GUICHAROUSSE, P. ISMARD, M. VALLET and A.-E. VEÏSSE (eds.), Identification des personnes dans le monde grec, Paris, 2019, 91-110.

• BROUX, Y. (2019), 'Life Portraits: People of a Multicultural Generation', K. VANDORPE (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden, 395-403.

• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘From prosodos to ousia’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 210 (2019), 201-211.

• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Ancient Profiles Exploited. First results of Named Entity Recognition Applied to Latin Inscriptions’, M. NOWAK, A. ŁAJTAR and J. URBANIK (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are: Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World (Studia Źródłoznawcze 16), Warsaw, 11-33.

• DEPAUW, M., BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Identification in Graeco-Roman Egypt: The Modalities of Expressing Filiation’, M. NOWAK, A. ŁAJTAR and J. URBANIK (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are: Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World (Studia Źródłoznawcze 16), Warsaw, 35-56.

• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Egyptian Names and Networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800)’, G. ROSATI and M.C. GUIDOTTI (eds.), Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists: Florence, Italy 23-30 August 2015 (Archeopress Egyptology 19), Oxford, 64-68.

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• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Local Trade Networks in the Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt’, H.F. TEIGEN and E. H. SELAND (eds.) Sinews of empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond, Oxford – Philadelphia, 137-146.

• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World’, S. ORLANDI et al. (eds.), Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context. Proceedings of the EAGLE 2016 International Conference (Antichistica 36), Rome, 343-352.

• BROUX, Y., CLARYSSE, W. (2016), ‘Would You Name Your Child After a Celebrity? Arsinoe, Berenike, Kleopatra, Laodike and Stratonike in the Greco-Roman East’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200, 347-362.

• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Locating Ancient Sites with the Help of Network Analysis: A Lost Cause?’, Ancient Society 46, 27-38.

• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Detecting Settlement Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53, 271-288.

• DEPAUW, M., BROUX Y. (2016), ‘Cultural Exchanges in Greek and Roman Egypt’, 美美与共：宗教交流与全球文明.

• DEPAUW, M. BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Editions and Editors of Greek Papyrological Texts: 1708-2015’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 198, 202-210.

• BROUX, Y., GEENS, K. (2015). 'The Archive of Petaus, Village Scribe of Ptolemais Hormou and Surrounding Villages', K. VANDORPE, W. CLARYSSE and H. VERRETH (eds.), Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum (Collectanea Hellenistica 6), Leuven, 285-288.

• BROUX, Y. (2015), ‘Graeco-Egyptian Naming Practices: A Network Perspective’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 55, 706-720.

• BROUX Y. (2015), ‘Re: apatores. Identification Issues and Loss of Status in Roman Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 194, 212-214.

• BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers and Prosopographies for the Ancient World through Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples from Trismegistos People’, L.M. AIELLO and D. MCFARLAND (eds.), Social Informatics. SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 10, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8852), Heidelberg, 304-313.

• BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), ‘The Maternal Line in Greek Identification. Signalling Social Status in Roman Egypt’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 64, 467-478.

• BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S. (2014). 'Double names as indicators of social relations in Graeco-Roman Egypt', M. DEPAUW and S. COUSSEMENT (eds.), Identifiers and identification methods in the ancient world: legal documents in ancient societies III (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 229), Leuven, 119-139.

• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Bemerkungen zu Papyri', Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28, 204-207.

• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Creating a New Local Elite: The Establishment of the Metropolitan Orders of Roman Egypt', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 59, 142-152.

• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Explicit Name Change in Roman Egypt', Chronique d'Égypte 88, 313-336. • BROUX, Y. (2012). 'Ὁ τοῦ: An Alternative for the Greek Patronymic in Egypt', The Journal of

Juristic Papyrology 41, 49-61. • BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S., DEPAUW, M. (2010). 'Καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει and the Importance of

Naming in Roman Egypt', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 174, 159-166. • CLARYSSE, W., BROUX, Y. (2009). 'Two Greek Funerary Stelae from Lydia and the Antonine

Plague', Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24, 27-33.

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PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

Invited presentations and workshops • ‘Trismegistos People 2.0: New Directions in Ancient Onomastics’, Celtic Conference in

Classics. Coimbra, June 27 2019. • ‘Network analysis with Gephi’, workshop for the department of history of the University of

Antwerp, March 25 2019. • ‘TM Networks and the TOMATILLO’. Social Network Analysis: The Case of Ancient Egypt.

Prague, September 22 2018. • ‘”Walk like a Greco-Egyptian Egyptian”. Glocalization of Naming Practices in Roman Egypt’,

Theorizing Contacts in the Roman Empire. Edinburgh, December 8-9 2017. • ‘Advances in Digital Classics. Organizing Data: A Trismegistos Case Study’, preconference

workshop, Theorizing Contacts in the Roman Empire. Edinburgh, December 7 2017. • ‘Untangling the Past: An Introduction to Databases and Network Analysis for Ancient Data’,

workshop for the Sonderfoschungsbereich 933 Material Text Cultures. Heidelberg, May 5-8 2017 (workshop).

• ‘Taking the “Social” out of Network Analysis: Making Networks of Entities besides People and Places’, Digital Infrastructure for Geospatial and Prosopographic Data. Leipzig, January 11-13 2017.

• ‘Ancient Profiles Exploited. Local and Global Mechanisms Behind Identity Formation in the Roman Empire’, What’s in the name? Presenting and describing people in the Graeco-Roman World. Warsaw, December 19-21 2016.

• ‘Philokles’ Local Trade Network with the Didymoi Army Camp’, Sinews of empire: Networks and regional interaction in the Roman Near East. Athens, December 2-4 2015.

• ‘From Papyri to Spaghetti Monsters: Networks Al Dente’, Papyri in a Changing World. Leiden, October 29-31 2015.

• ‘Identifying Individuals in Trismegistos People with Network Analysis’, Per una prosopografia dell’Egitto romano: metodi, problemi, proposte. Padua, July 23-24 2015.

• ‘Changes in Personal Identification Methods in Early Roman Egypt’, Enonciation et preuve d’identité dans le monde grec. Paris, June 19-20 2015.

International conferences and meetings • ‘Patrimonivm Caesaris. The continuity of local traditions on imperial estates in Roman

Egypt’, Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE XII). Cairo, November 3 – 8 2019.

• ‘Patrimonivm: Geography and Economy of the Imperial Properties in the Roman World’, 29th International Congress of Papyrology. Lecce, July 28 – August 8 2019.

• ‘Trismegistos workshop’, 29th International Congress of Papyrology. Lecce, August 1 2019; with M. Depauw.

• ‘The Julio-Claudian ousiai in Egypt’, L’Égypte et l’économie impériale romaine. Bordeaux, March 13-14 2019.

• ‘Trismegistos People. The Extended Version’, XVth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Vienna, August 28 – September 1 2017.

• ‘Trismegistos goes global: inscriptions, places and people’, XVth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Vienna, August 28 – September 1 2017; with M. Depauw and H. Verreth.

• ‘Named Entity Recognition and Latin Inscriptions: First results’, DH Benelux 2017. Utrecht, July 3-5 2017.

• ‘Trismegistos Networks’, 28th International Congress of Papyrology. Barcelona, August 1-5 2016.

• ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World’, EAGLE 2016 International Conference on Digital and Traditional Epigraphy. Rome, January 27-29 2016.

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• ‘An Introduction to Social Network Analysis and TM Networks’. Beijing, November 9 2015. • ‘Egyptian Names in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) and Social Network Analysis’,

International Congress of Egyptologists XI. Florence, August 23-30 2015. • 'Editions and editors of Greek papyrological texts', DH Benelux 2015. Antwerp, June 8-9

2015; with M. Depauw. • ‘Applying social network analysis to names in Trismegistos People. Part Two: Social

Network Analysis’, Digital Classicist New England. Boston, March 23 2015. • ‘Linking Digital Tools for the Ancient World through Trismegistos Stable Identifiers’, Greek

and Latin in an Age of Open Data. Leipzig, December 1 2014; with M. Depauw. • 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers and Prosopographies for the Ancient World through

Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples from Trismegistos People’, HistoInformatics 2014 – 2nd International Workshop on Computational History. Barcelona, November 10 2014; with M. Depauw.

• ‘Preparing your Dataset for Network Analysis: A General Introduction’, Historical Network Research Conference 2014. Gent, September 15-19 2014; with M. Depauw and S. Vanbeselaere.

• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’, 1st European Conference on Social Network Analysis. Barcelona, July 1-4 2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.

• ‘Defining the Elite in Roman Egypt’, XXXIV Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis. St. Pete Beach, February 18-23 2014.

• ‘Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, 27th International Congress of Papyrology. Warsaw, July 29 - August 3 2013; with S. Vanbeselaere.

• ‘Authority and Social Interaction in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis. Hamburg, May 21-26 2013.

• ‘Quantifying Cultural Changes in Graeco-Roman Egypt (and beyond) on the basis of Trismegistos’, MediterraneoS 2012: International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Madrid, November 21-23 2012; with G. Jennes.

• ‘Double Names and Identity in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Legal Documents in Ancient Societies: Identifiers and Identification Methods. Leuven, September 23-25 2010; with S. Coussement.

• ‘Creating Identities through Double Names in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology. Geneva, August 16-21 2010; with S. Coussement.

• ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Double Names in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Current Research in Egyptology XI. Leiden, January 5-8 2010; with S. Coussement.

• ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Second Third Century Colloquium. Leuven, September 3-4 2009.

Local conferences and meetings • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt under the Antonines (2): Hadrian’, PATRIMONIVM. Twelfth

meeting. Bordeaux, July 3 2019. • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt under the Antonines (1): Trajan’, PATRIMONIVM. Eleventh

meeting. Bordeaux, May 16 2019. • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt under the Flavians’, PATRIMONIVM. Tenth meeting. Bordeaux,

February 5 2019. • ‘Imperial vs non-imperial ousiai in Egypt’, PATRIMONIVM. Eighth meeting. Bordeaux,

October 17 2018. • ‘People Involved in the Julio-Claudian Ousiai’, PATRIMONIVM. Seventh meeting. Bordeaux,

July 3 2018. • ‘Imperial Estates in Egypt under the Julio-Claudians’, PATRIMONIVM. Sixth meeting.

Bordeaux, June 12 2018.

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• ‘The Earliest Attestations of Imperial Estates in Egypt II’, PATRIMONIVM. Fourth meeting. Bordeaux, March 27 2018.

• ‘The Earliest Attestations of Imperial Estates in Egypt I’, PATRIMONIVM. Third meeting. Bordeaux, February 27 2018.

• ‘Looking for Imperial and Public Land in Egypt’, PATRIMONIVM. Second meeting. Bordeaux, January 30 2018.

• ‘Land Status in Egypt’, PATRIMONIVM. First meeting. Bordeaux, November 28 2017. • ‘Trismegistos Networks: An Introduction’, Towards DARIAH-BE: a kick-off meeting with the

launch of the Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders. Antwerp, November 27 2015.

• ‘Databases and Network Analysis (SNA)’, Digital Humanities Summer School 2015. Leuven, September 7-8 2015.

• ‘Trismegistos: an Interdisciplinary Portal Site of Ancient Data’, DH Spring Event. Leuven, April 28-29 2015.

• ‘Networks and Trismegistos’, Digital Humanities Summer School 2014. Leuven, September 8-10 2014.

• ‘Personal Identification and Social Status in Roman Egypt’, IKS doctorandi voormiddag. Leuven, May 14 2014.

• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’, Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Leuven, March 12 2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.

• ‘Social Network Analysis @oudheid.kuleuven.be’, OIKOS Oudhistorici dag. Leuven, February 7 2014.

• ‘Elite Strategy vs Popular Characterization: Double Names in Roman Egypt (30 BC – AD 800)’, Postgraduate Seminar. Leuven, April 20 2011.

ORGANIZING AND/OR PROGRAM COMMITTEE OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

2019 DH Benelux. Liège, September 11-13 (program committee) 2019 L’Égypte et l’économie impériale romaine. Bordeaux , March 13-14 2019. 2018 DH Benelux. Amsterdam, June 6-8 (program committee) 2017 DH Benelux. Utrecht, June 9-10 (program committee) 2016 DH Benelux. City-of-Science-Belval, June 9-10 (program committee) 2014 OIKOS (National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands) seminar

for ancient historians. Leuven, February 7 2013 Two workshops on ‘SNA for Dummies’. Leuven, June 6 and December 18

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

• Six degrees of spaghetti monsters: or how to make noodly graphs based on the all-inclusive Trismegistos database

• The Trismegistos Tabloid

• ‘Rondjes draaien in de woestijn’, oudegeschiedenis.be, September 4 2018

• ‘Beeldige wetenschap: Mondiaal vuurwerk? Bebloede designlamp?’, Campuskrant, November 19 2014

• ‘Social Network Analysis for Dummies’, KULeuven Blogt, April 3 2014