Prof. Toni Ñaco del Hoyo (PhD 1996, Barcelona) is an Ancient Historian of the Classical World. A former Fulbrighter (UC Berkeley, 2004), before joining ICREA in 2009 he held Catalan and Spanish funded postdoctoral positions at Wolfson College Oxford (1998-2002), where he remains a member, as well as a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship at UAB. Research awards as PI: H.F. Guggenheim Foundation (2007), RICIP (2010; 2012-3), Spanish Government R+D Grants (2011-3; 2015-7), Acción Complementaria (2011), ARCS (2012), Icrea Conference Award (2012), Margo Tytus Visiting Fellowship at Cincinnati (summer 2014). Since 2012 he has been yearly Visiting Scholar at the Classics Faculty (Oxford). Recently, he has supervised 3 already finished PhD dissertations. In September 2015 he moved to Universitat de Girona in search of new research challenges: e.g. he will organize the Second Colloquium of the Forum of Roman Republican Historians from Spain (Girona, 21-2 Sep. 2017).

Research interests

As an ancient historian, he mostly deals with the Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods. With his colleague Dr J. Principal he is currently working on the history and the archaeology of the Roman intervention in the West (NE Hispania) from the financial and military logistic standpoints. Also, he has conducted research on collateral damage, garrisoning strategies, asymmetrical warfare, military intelligence, crisis management, international relations and peacebuilding studies in the Classical World, and last but not least he has recently revisited his old work on Roman Republican taxation. He is about to correct proofs of a book on Rome’s military intervention in pre-Sertorian Hispania (Barcelona 2017). Finally, the peer-reviewed evaluation of another co-edited volume -War, Warlords and Interstate relations in the Ancient Mediterranean 404BC – AD14- from Brill Editions (Leiden-Boston) is expected shortly.