Carmen Alarcon Hernandez

PhD in Ancient History from the University of Seville (2017) and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the same university (2025–2029). She has also taught at the University School of Osuna (2020) and held various postdoctoral research positions at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (2020–2024). She has undertaken several research stays, both in Spain and abroad, at highly prestigious institutions such as the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (University of Oxford), the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London), and the Julio Caro Baroja Institute of Historiography at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

Her main line of research focuses on the analysis of the origin and development of the cult of emperors and their domus in the Roman Empire in general, and in Hispania in particular, during the Principate. She is particularly interested in the construction of the broader discourse around the divinisation of the imperial domus from the perspective of the provinces, as well as in the historiographical studies and reflections on this religious phenomenon. On these and other topics, she has edited several books (Reyes y dioses: La realeza divina en las sociedades antiguas; The Present of Antiquity. Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of Ancient World in Current Popular Culture; and Itálica adrianea: Nuevas perspectivas, nuevos resultados), published articles in academic journals (Revista de Historiografía, Electrum, Latomus, Hispania Sacra, etc.) and contributed book chapters for both national and international publishers (L’Erma di Bretschneider, Brill, Libera Res Publica, etc.).

She has also participated in international conferences and academic meetings (“Imperial cults in Hispania: studies on emperors worship in the Iberian Peninsula”, University of Hamburg, 2025; “Mujeres, oficios y actividad económica en el Occidente imperial romano durante el Principado”, University of Durham / Pablo de Olavide University, 2023; “The construction of feminine kingship: The cult of Livia in the provinces of the Roman Empire”, University of Exeter, 2022; etc.) and has collaborated (and continues to collaborate) in various research projects: Discourses of the Roman Empire from the Provinces (PID2021-25226NB-C21); Gynaikes, Mulieres: Women of Greece and Rome (FCT-21-16887); Discourses of the Roman Empire: Words and Rituals that Shaped the Empire (PGC2018-096500-B-C31); Forms of Integration in the Roman Mediterranean: Informal Means of Inclusion of Diversity in the Political, Religious and Cultural Spheres (UPO-1260377); and Hadrian and the Integration of Regional Diversity: A Historical and Historiographical Perspective (HAR2015-65451-C2-1-P).