Prof. Toni Ñaco del Hoyo (PhD 1996, UAB) is a Roman Historian. Before joining ICREA in 2009 he held Catalan and Spanish funded postdoctoral positions at Oxford for 3 years till 2002, Fulbright Visiting Fellowship at UC Berkeley (2004), and a Ramón y Cajal job at UAB (2004-9). Research awards as PI: H.F. Guggenheim Foundation (2007), RICIP (2010; 2012-3), 5 Spanish R+D Grants, Icrea Conference Award (2012), Tytus Visiting Fellowship at U.Cincinnati (2014); grants for archaeological research (2018-21; 2022-5). He is currently an Academic Visitor at Classics (Oxford). He has sponsored 6 postdocs (2012-4; 2018-25) and 3 PhD assistants. In 2015 he moved to UdG, where he has coordinated and still does a funded SGR Consolidated Group (2017-21; 2022-5) leading 22 researchers. He has successfully supervised 6 PhD theses and he is currently supervising 3 further theses. Member of an editorial board: Colección Libera Res Publica (Zaragoza-Sevilla), and of its Research Network (2023-5).
Research interests
Prof. Ñaco del Hoyo's research and interests lie predominantly with the history of Republican Rome. Alongside J. Principal (Barcelona) and M. Dobson (Exeter) he recently edted an international volume on ‘Rome and the north-western Mediterranean integration and connectivity c. 150-70 BC’, for Oxbow Books (2022), and he continues to expand such a research line. Additionally, he has conducted research on Republican taxation (recently revisited and it is planned to be expanded in the years to come), collateral damage, garrisoning strategies, asymmetrical warfare, military intelligence and logistics, crisis management, international relations, and peace studies in the Classical World. He is is currently co-editing a ‘Brill’s Companion to the Mercenaries of the Ancient Western Mediterranean’, alongside J. Armstrong (Auckland) and L. Rawlings (Cardiff).
Selected publications
- Torregaray Pagola E & Ñaco del Hoyo T 2024, "Women's mediation and peace diplomacy: Augustan women through the looking glass", in Hekster, O. et al. (eds.), Traditional structures of power in the Roman Empire. Impact of Empire Series, Ed. Brill, Leiden-Boston pp 43-60
- Ñaco del Hoyo T. Principal J, Cabezas-Guzmán G, Ventós GR 2024, "No-man’s land: the North-Western Mediterranean and the Sertorian War", in Santangelo, F., García González, J.; García Domínguez, D. (eds.), Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars, 88-30 BCE, Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2024, 195 - 212.
Selected research activities
IFUdGirona Predoctoral Grant (April 2024-March 2027): Mr. Jesús Huertas Gómez (co-supervised together with Dr Purificación Ubric, U. Granada); PhD Dissertation: Dr. Gerard Cabezas Guzmán, “La Conectividad Marítima en el Occidente Mediterráneo durante la República Romana (ss. III-I a.C.)”, UdGirona, 13-03-2024. Excellent ‘cum laude’. Role: co-supervisor. Invited speaker at the VIII Collegium di Diritto Romano. Taxation in Rome, from City to Empire : History, Economy and Law (III sec. BCE - III CE): 8 - 26 Jan. 2024. Lecture: "Provincial Taxation in the Roman West (Hispania, Gallia, Africa)". Follow-up session: 18-20 Sep. 2024. Invited speaker at Joint Seminar on Roman Republican Studies South Korea / Spain (online): "Interwar years in the Middle Republic": 23 Oct. 2024. Invited speaker at Crescentibus iam provinciis. Invention and Narrative of the Western Provinces IX SEOA, UAM: 29 Nov. 2024. Invited speaker (along with J. Principal, J. García, G. Cabezas, G. Ventós) at Conference: Between East and West: Economy, Territory and Society in antiquity (II BCE-II CE), U. Barcelona: 15-16 Feb. 2024. Reviewing: Cambridge Univ. Press; Oxford Univ. Press; McGill Univ. Press; Archaeopress (Oxford); AEspArqueología; Revista de Historiografía; Agencia Estatal de Investigación.