Violaine Sebillotte

Violaine Sebillotte is a Professor of Antiquity and History at Sorbonne University, where she serves as Vice-President of the CR Research Commission. She holds joint appointments as co-director of the journal Mètis and the Ancient and Medieval Worlds book collection at Sorbonne University Press. Her research laboratory is ANHIMA (Anthropology and History of the Ancient World, UMR 8210).

Her work centers on:

• Historical anthropology of political systems
• Gender and women's history in ancient Greece
• Digital humanities (notably the Eurykleia project)
• Reception of classical antiquity in modern scholarship

She leads international collaborations including the ANGAN project (2016-2019), a France-Brazil initiative on gender in antiquity. Recent publications analyze female agency in ancient texts, historiographical methodologies, and representations of power.