Yanne Broux
Born in Lier, Belgium on October 28 1985.
Department of Ancient History Blijde Inkomststraat 21 – bus 3307 3000 Leuven +32 16 37 24 76 [email protected] Volmolenstraat 12 2500 Lier +32 494 39 13 38 personal website: www.trismegistos.org/staff_broux
blog: spaghetti-os.blogspot.com
CURRENT POSITION
2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher (Research Foundation Flanders [FWO]) at the Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
2015 Postdoctoral researcher at the Papyrological Institute, Leiden University
2012 – 2013 Postdoctoral researcher (KU Leuven Research Council) at the Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
EDUCATION
2008 – 2012 PhD in Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
2007 – 2008 Master in Ancient History (summa cum laude) Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
2004 – 2007 Bachelor in History: major Ancient History/ minor Syro-Mesopotamia (magna cum laude) Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
FUNDING
2016 ‘Krediet aan navorsers’ (€20,900) by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
AWARDS
2015 Digital Humanities Awards 2014: ‘Best Blog Post or Series of Blog Posts’ 2014 The YouReCa Challenge by the KU Leuven Career Center (2nd runner up)
PHD SUPERVISION
2015 – 2019 Nico Dogaer, ‘Social Interaction and Hierarchy in Epistolary Networks’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven), co-supervisor
2013 – 2017 Gert Baetens, ‘Dispute Resolution in Ptolemaic Egypt: Adjudicative and Consensual Strategies towards Order in Classical Society’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven), member of the advisory board
2013 – 2017 Ana Blasco-Torres, ‘Rendering of Egyptian Names in Greek: Regional Differentiation’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven in co-direction with Salamanca), member of the advisory board
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2015 – 2016 Supervision of five bachelor papers 2014 – 2015 Supervision of two master theses
2012 – now Ancient Greek historical texts A: reading and grammar 2010 – 2011 Ancient Greek historical texts B: grammar
FACULTY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2012 – 2015 Faculty council (Faculty of Arts)
2012 – 2014 Permanent Education Committee History
IT EXPERIENCE
Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Filemaker Pro 7-14, Gephi, UCINET, R Mark-up and programming languages: HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, basic TEI
DATABASE WORK (TRISMEGISTOS [TM])
2016 Supervision parsing Latin inscriptions: 895,412 clusters in 451,860 texts 2015 – now TM networks management
2014 – now TM People management
2014 Updating TM People with geographical identifiers: 4,830 places of residence 2012 – now Updating TM People with status markers: 3,523 titles
2012 Review of genealogical identifiers in TM People: 14,514 attestations
2011 Setting up a prosopography of individuals with a double name: 8,383 attestations of 4,515 different people
2010 – 2011 Prosopographical identification of individuals and extraction of genealogical information from texts: 7,594 texts and 103,374 attestations
2009 – 2010 Review of anthroponyms and toponyms in texts to solve ambiguities and omit residue (theonyms, numbers, …): 98,840 forms
2009 Updating TM’s onomastic structure on the basis of the extraction of names from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri: 42,114 variants of 33,904 names
BIBLIOGRAPHY Books as author
• BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names and Elite Strategy in Roman Egypt (Studia Hellenistica 54),
Leuven, 312 pp.
• BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names in Roman Egypt: A Prosopography (Trismegistos Online
Publications 8), Leuven, 368 pp. (<www.trismegistos.org/top.php>).
Books as editor
• BODARD, G., BROUX, Y. and TARTE, S. (eds.) (2016), Digital Classics: Special Edition (Bulletin of
the Institute of Classical Studies), London.
• BROUX, Y. (2016), Spaghetti Monsters Al Dente (Trismegistos Online Publications 9), Leuven.
• DEPAUW, M., BROUX, Y. (eds.) (2014). Acts of the 10th International Congress of Demotic Studies. Leuven, 26-30 August 2008 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 231), Leuven, 390 pp.
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals and books
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Double Names in the Roman Empire’ (in preparation).
• VAN DIJK,S.,BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Networking in the Time of Athanasius’ (in preparation).
• BROUX Y., VANBESELAERE S. (2016), ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’,
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Egyptian Names and Networks in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800)’,
Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, August 24-29 2015 (submitted).
• DEPAUW, M., BROUX Y. (2016), ‘Cultural Exchanges in Greek and Roman Egypt’, 美美与共：
宗教交流与全球文明 (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World’, Proceedings of the
EAGLE 2016 International Conference on Digital and Traditional Epigraphy, Rome, January 27-29 2016 (accepted).
• DEPAUW, M. BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Editions and Editors of Greek Papyrological Texts:
1708-2015’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Local Trade Networks in the Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt’, E. H. SELAND
and H. TEIGEN (eds.) Sinews of empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond
(accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Changes in Personal Identification Reflecting Social Reformation in Early
Roman Egypt’, R. GUICHAROUSSE, P. ISMARD andA.-E. VEÏSSE (eds.), Proclamation et preuve d’identité dans le monde grec (accepted).
• CLARYSSE, W., BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘The Adoption of Royal Names by Commoners in
Graeco-Roman Egypt’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200 (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Locating Ancient Sites with the Help of Network Analysis: A Lost Cause?’,
Ancient Society 46 (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Detecting Settlement Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2016). 'Life Portraits: People of a Multicultural Generation', K. VANDORPE (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden (accepted).
• BROUX, Y., GEENS, K. (2015). 'The Archive of Petaus, Village Scribe of Ptolemais Hormou and
Surrounding Villages', K. VANDORPE, W. CLARYSSE and H. VERRETH (eds.), Graeco-Roman
Archives from the Fayum (Collectanea Hellenistica 6), Leuven, 285-288.
• BROUX, Y. (2015), ‘Graeco-Egyptian Naming Practices: A Network Perspective’, Greek,
Roman and Byzantine Studies 55, 706-720.
• BROUX Y. (2015), ‘Re: apatores. Identification Issues and Loss of Status in Roman Egypt’,
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 194, 212-214.
• BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers and Prosopographies for
the Ancient World through Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples from Trismegistos People’, L.M. AIELLO and D. MCFARLAND (eds.), Social
Informatics. SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 10, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8852), Heidelberg, 304-313. • BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), ‘The Maternal Line in Greek Identification. Signalling Social
Status in Roman Egypt’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 64, 467-478.
• BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S. (2014). 'Double names as indicators of social relations in
Graeco-Roman Egypt', M. DEPAUW and S. COUSSEMENT (eds.), Identifiers and identification methods
in the ancient world: legal documents in ancient societies III (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 229), Leuven, 119-139.
• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Bemerkungen zu Papyri', Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28, 204-207.
• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Creating a New Local Elite: The Establishment of the Metropolitan Orders
of Roman Egypt', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 59, 142-152. • BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Explicit Name Change in Roman Egypt', Chronique d'Égypte 88, 313-336.
• BROUX, Y. (2012). 'Ὁ τοῦ: An Alternative for the Greek Patronymic in Egypt', The Journal of
• BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S., DEPAUW, M. (2010). 'Καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει and the Importance of
Naming in Roman Egypt', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 174, 159-166. • CLARYSSE, W., BROUX, Y. (2009). 'Two Greek Funerary Stelae from Lydia and the Antonine
Plague', Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24, 27-33.
INVITED LECTURES
• ‘Ancient Profiles Exploited. Local and Global Mechanisms Behind Identity Formation in the Roman Empire’, What’s in the name? Presenting and describing people in the Graeco-Roman World. Warsaw, December 19-21 2016.
• ‘On Linked Open Data and Network Analysis in Trismegistos’, Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference. Iowa City, June 6-8 2016.
• ‘Philokles’ Local Trade Network with the Didymoi Army Camp’, Sinews of empire: Networks and regional interaction in the Roman Near East. Athens, December 2-4 2015.
• ‘From Papyri to Spaghetti Monsters: Networks Al Dente’, Papyri in a Changing World. Leiden, October 29-31 2015.
• ‘Identifying Individuals in Trismegistos People with Network Analysis’, Per una
prosopografia dell’Egitto romano: metodi, problemi, proposte. Padua, July 23-24 2015. • ‘Changes in Personal Identification Methods in Early Roman Egypt’, Enonciation et preuve
d’identité dans le monde grec. Paris, June 19-20 2015.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (INTERNATIONAL)
• ‘Trismegistos Networks’, 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, August 1-5 2016.
• ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World’, EAGLE 2016 International Conference on Digital and Traditional Epigraphy, Rome, January 27-29 2016.
• ‘An Introduction to Social Network Analysis and TM Networks’, Beijing, November 9 2015. • ‘Egyptian Names in Trismegistos (800 BC – AD 800) and Social Network Analysis’,
International Congress of Egyptologists XI, Florence, August 23-30 2015.
• 'Editions and editors of Greek papyrological texts', DH Benelux 2015, Antwerp, June 8-9 2015; with M. Depauw.
• ‘Applying social network analysis to names in Trismegistos People. Part Two: Social Network Analysis’, Digital Classicist New England, Boston, March 23 2015.
• ‘Linking Digital Tools for the Ancient World through Trismegistos Stable Identifiers’, Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data, Leipzig, December 1 2014; with M. Depauw.
• 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers and Prosopographies for the Ancient World through Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples from Trismegistos People’, HistoInformatics 2014 – 2nd International Workshop on Computational History.
Barcelona, November 10 2014; with M. Depauw.
• ‘Preparing your Dataset for Network Analysis: A General Introduction’, Historical Network Research Conference 2014. Gent, September 15-19 2014; with M. Depauw and S.
Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’, 1st European Conference on Social
Network Analysis. Barcelona, July 1-4 2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Defining the Elite in Roman Egypt’, XXXIV Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis. St. Pete Beach, February 18-23 2014. • ‘Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, 27th International Congress of Papyrology.
Warsaw, July 29 - August 3 2013; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Authority and Social Interaction in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis. Hamburg, May 21-26 2013.
• ‘Quantifying Cultural Changes in Graeco-Roman Egypt (and beyond) on the basis of Trismegistos’, MediterraneoS 2012: International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Madrid, November 21-23 2012; with G. Jennes.
• ‘Double Names and Identity in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Legal Documents in Ancient Societies: Identifiers and Identification Methods. Leuven, September 23-25 2010; with S. Coussement.
• ‘Creating Identities through Double Names in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology. Geneva, August 16-21 2010; with S. Coussement. • ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Double Names in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’,
Current Research in Egyptology XI. Leiden, January 5-8 2010; with S. Coussement. • ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Second Third Century Colloquium. Leuven,
September 3-4 2009.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (LOCAL)
• ‘Trismegistos Networks: An Introduction’, Towards DARIAH-BE: a kick-off meeting with the launch of the Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders. Antwerp, November 27 2015.
• ‘Databases and Network Analysis (SNA)’, Digital Humanities Summer School 2015. Leuven, September 7-8 2015.
• ‘Trismegistos: an Interdisciplinary Portal Site of Ancient Data’, DH Spring Event. Leuven, April 28-29 2015.
• ‘Networks and Trismegistos’, Digital Humanities Summer School 2014. Leuven, September 8-10 2014.
• ‘Personal Identification and Social Status in Roman Egypt’, IKS doctorandi voormiddag. Leuven, May 14 2014.
• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’, Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Leuven, March 12 2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Social Network Analysis @oudheid.kuleuven.be’, OIKOS Oudhistorici dag. Leuven, February 7 2014.
• ‘Elite Strategy vs Popular Characterization: Double Names in Roman Egypt (30 BC – AD 800)’, Postgraduate Seminar. Leuven, April 20 2011.
ORGANIZING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
2016 10 Years of Trismegistos Madness. Leuven, November 4
2016 DH Benelux programme committee. City-of-Science-Belval (Luxembourg), June 9-10
2014 Seminar ‘Oudhistorici dag’. Leuven, February 7
2013 Two workshops on ‘SNA for Dummies’. Leuven, June 6 and December 18
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
• Six degrees of spaghetti monsters: or how to make noodly graphs based on the all-inclusive Trismegistos database <spaghetti-os.blogspot.com>
• The Trismegistos Tabloid
<www.facebook.com/pages/Trismegistos/39798820659?ref=aymt_homepage_panel> • ‘Beeldige wetenschap: Mondiaal vuurwerk? Bebloede designlamp?’, Campuskrant,
November 19 2014
< http://nieuws.kuleuven.be/node/14335>
• ‘Social Network Analysis for Dummies’, KULeuven Blogt, April 3 2014 < kuleuvenblogt.be/2014/04/03/social-network-analysis-for-dummies
