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Iulia Dumitrache

Researcher - UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

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Researcher - ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (Romania)

Researcher

Curriculum Vitae (23/06/2021)

Expertise & keywords

Halieutica Scythiae Minoris. Fishing and Fish Industry at the Mouth of the Danube in Roman and Early Byzantine Times Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente - TE-2021
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0544 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://www.findart.page/

Abstract:

The main goal of the project is to demonstrate the extent to which fishing and the fish industry played a role in the regional economic development of Schythia Minor in the Roman and Roman-Byzantine eras. The fish industry refers both to the potential of exploitable biological resources (primarily fish stocks), and to the strategy of capitalizing on this potential (transport, storage, processing of resources and marketing of products obtained).

The project is an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, which connects archeology and ancient history with studies related to economics, and which integrates, at the same time, concepts and methods specific to limnology, archaeozoology, geoarchaeology. The holistic approach, by corroborating, as much as possible, all the sources available at the moment, is a novelty in the context of research on the fisheries in Scythia Minor. Also, the comparison and analogy, at local level, between the local sources and sites and their integration in the context of the Pontic and Mediterranean halieutic circuit represent elements of novelty and originality. The results of this project could represent a starting point for an economic synthesis for the studied area, integrated in the parameters of a new theoretical framework and competitive in the current interdisciplinary debates, and will include the research area on the fishing map of the Roman Empire.

State policy and individual destinies. Recruitment and retirement in Moesian and Dacian provinces Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0383 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://history.uaic.ro/recret/

Abstract:

Roman army has been studied with emphasis of multiple dimensions, due to the fact that the militaries represent the most active category in the frame of the epigraphic habit. Our project aims to broaden the perspective of the relationship between the moments of recruitment in the researched provinces and the history of these provinces and of the Roman Empire. Moreover, the periods of enlistment can reveal information not only for Daciae and Moesiae, but also for the military history of other provinces and can provide an image of the Roman state policy of recruitment.In addition to identifying and interpreting the recruitment moments (the chronological perspective), we propose a spatial perspective concerning the main cities, towns or villages from where the soldiers were enlisted and the mobility vectors of the soldiers in all their complexity (the province or the provinces of their service or missions, their home return and the importance of veterans in provincial life). In this way, some sources enable us to reconstitute individual stories from the beginning of the military service until retirement. The project relies on a comparative approach, too.The main aim of the project is to identify, describe and interpret the way in which the recruitment in the Lower Danube provinces were integrated in a general pattern of enlistment policy of the Roman state and the particularities of these regions in this process.

Riverine societies. Dynamics of interaction between Roman culture and regional identities in Dacia and Moesia inferior Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0271 2017 - 2019

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: http://history.uaic.ro/research/rivsoc/

Abstract:

The Roman strategy of setting the northern border on the Danube, the way the local identities along the fluvial limes (on its eastern ends) interacted with the Roman culture, represent the main challenges behind this proposal. The aim of our project is to create a model of military, economic, cultural and religious interaction of local and Roman identities along the Danubian border, in a contrastive approach. Our global method integrates several approaches, already applied in various fields, in an interdisciplinary manner. The relevance of our proposal is that it will develop several research directions that were only sparingly touched by Romanian scientists, such as the phenomena of acculturation and religious grafting, the role of watercourses in cultural adaptation and innovation. The research roadmap has several milestones, most notably establishing the role of fluvial borders as mediums of cultural exchange and construction, and discerning a pattern at work in the case of the riverine societies of two marginal Roman provinces (Dacia and Moesia inferior). The project will create a West–East scientific network, elevating the standards of all the Romanian universities involved. The socio-economic impact consists in increasing the pool of human resources able to further this research and impart knowledge to any external stakeholders. It will, for instance, open new funding opportunities for young researchers, in the form of projects and jobs. The ultimate outcome will be the development of a Lower-Danube axis promoting cultural tourism and advancing scientific cooperation. The viability of the resulting interaction model will be tested in other regions of the Roman Empire with similar geographic-historical contexts.

Beyond the Fringes of Empire. Roman Influence and Power north of the Danube and east of the Rhine Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0669 2017 - 2019

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://www.arheo.ro/romaninfluence/

Abstract:

The overall aim of this project is to find out, how Roman rule affected directly (politics, military, stipendia) and indirectly (acculturation, customs, cultural contact) the indigenous nations of central Europe. Main objectives: to identify concrete ways by which the Roman power manifested in Barbaricum; explore the areas of the Roman influence in Barbaricum; to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the ancient archaeological potential in the pilot project implementation areas in order to identify new areas of interest; to stress the importance of the "waves" of Roman imports representing different types of artefacts (pottery, jewellery, coins etc.) in the barbarian territory of the limes vicinity; to focus on the economic and social changes within the barbarian society under the direct influence of their neighbours inside the Empire (the emergence of barbarian workshops that used to copy the Roman artefacts, the development of some barbarian settlements in accordance to a handcraft specialisation etc.). Methodology. The project comprises the present trends of the international research on the area of contact between Orbis Romanus and Barbaricum. By gathering an interdisciplinary team, consisting of ancient historians, archaeologists, epigraphists and numismatists that will cover the main disciplines of “Altertumswissenschaften”, the project will lead to a diversified approach and balanced results. The research will be based on archaeological data from actual and former excavations, as well as on literary, epigraphic and numismatic sources. All these source categories will be separately examined and evaluated, and their results will subsequently be compared. Impact. The project might bring a significant contribution to the recent international debates on the relations between the Roman world and gentes barbares.

The dynamics of colonization in the civilian and military milieu of the Roman province Moesia Inferior. A model of an contrastive approach Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0550 2012 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi

Project partners: Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi (RO)

Affiliation: Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi (RO)

Project website: http://cmi.uaic.ro/

Abstract:

Roman colonization is one of the most important factors of Romanization and acculturation, but has rarely been treated in specialist monographs. Therefore, our interdisciplinary research aims two main targets: to deepen the prosopographical analysis at the level of all colonists of Moesia Inferior in comparison with Germania Superior, and to begin a non-destructive archaeological investigation into the rural milieu of Moesia Inferior. The exploratory character of our project consists in assuming the creation of an exhaustive image of colonization in Moesia Inferior, tracing the main differences between different types of settlements. The project’s main objectives are: prosopographical investigations of Roman colonists in Moesia Inferior and Germania Superior; the setting of the colonists’ dynamics in the two provinces; the setting of the differences of colonization between the rural-urban and civilian-military settlements; the setting of the civilian and military landscape; the achievement of a global image and a contrastive approach on the Lower Danube limes and on the Rhenan limes. The methodology will include the prosopographical analysis and the non-destructive archaeological investigation. The scientific impact of our project consists in setting the colonization in Moesia Inferior as a possible model of colonization in the Roman world with Greek-speakers. This kind of approach may constitute a pattern for the colonization in similar provinces.

The Archaeology of the Ancient and Medieval Danube Delta: Modeling Environmental and Historical Change Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0857 2011 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI (RO)

Project website: http://deltarch.uaic.ro

Abstract:

The Danube Delta is a dynamic interface between the geological history – the deltaic morphogenesis, and the anthropic diachronic extension. Our approach aims for the first time at dealing with the problematics related to the recent geomorphologic evolution of the Danube Delta in comparison with the development of the habitation areas during the Ancient and Mediaeval times. The purpose of this project is to approach, from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, the geomorphological and historical-archaeological evolution of the deltaic area. This project aims at corroborating the archaeological, historical, cartographical, geological, geomorphological, climatological, hydrological, biogeographical and pedological data. The general research perspective that we promote is that of a discipline which intertwines methods and principles pertaining to the previously mentioned subjects, which is called lymnoarchaeology. The research has a high degree of interdisciplinarity by employing methods and techniques proper to the exact sciences (chemistry, physics, biology, geology, geomorphology, climatology, hydrology), as well as to the archaeology, the art history, anthropology and sociology. For the first time in the field literature traits of the ancient and mediaeval environment are emphasized, in a direct relationship with the human activity pertaining to those periods.

“The Other” in Action. The Barbarization of Rome and the Romanization of the World Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2012 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0490 2013 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://arheo.ro/romanization/

Abstract:

The history of the Roman Empire is the history of a complex process of integration, often labelled “Romanization”. The receptiveness of Rome towards the Greeks and the incorporation of Greek culture into a Roman context are well-known themes in classical studies and archaeology. With the concept of “’the other’ in action“ we argue that this receptiveness of Roman culture is the basis of and thus the key concept for the understanding of the empire and the provincial system. It is about Rome’s unique capability to creatively adapt elements of foreign cultures, of “the other”, within the framework of Roman rule and to make them part of an integration process, involving culture and especially religion. Such a theoretical approach will investigate “’the other in action’” in a multi-disciplinary way, from multiple angles, including collaborators from Romania and from across Europe and centred on the fields of ancient history, archaeology and linguistics, thus covering Roman Italy, Germany, Dacia and Greece in a comparative perspective, and dealing with issues like military organization, linguistics, numismatics, religion. The main question underlying this approach is not how the process of “becoming Roman” took place, but why it was possible to “become Roman” while still being/staying Greek, Aleman, Goth or Dacian. “the ‘other’ in action” could be the first Romanian contribution to this crucial, ongoing debate, and a much-needed reappraisal of the concept of Romanization.

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