Giusto Traina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Giusto Traina

Italian historian

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1959

Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Profession: historian, armenologist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Giusto Traina (born 1959) is a prominent Italian ancient historian and Byzantinist.
Since 2011 he has been professor of Roman history at Sorbonne Université, and a former senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2014-2019). He is the author of numerous books and articles.
Formerly interested in ancient landscapes and techniques, he is currently involved in a long-term research about ancient Armenia. He was awarded the Premio Nazionale 'Cherasco Storia' (2011) for his book La resa di Roma.
Battaglia a Carre, 9 giugno 53 a.C.
(Laterza 2010).He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique de la recherche historique de la Défense. He was recently Fellow of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Summer 2014), of the Bogliasco Foundation (February 2016), and of the Topoi Excellence Cluster at Berlin (Spring 2016; Summer 2017).
He was Dumanian Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (Spring term 2017).
He is presently visiting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In the Anglophone world he is most noted for his book 428 AD : An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Princeton, 2009), in which he which gives a panoramic view across the geographical extents of the Roman Empire in a single year.