Dr Marco Dosi is an Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher in Late Roman History in the Department of History at King’s College London, and Co-Principal Investigator of the faculty-funded DataCons Project.

He holds a BA in Cultural Heritage Studies and an MA in Archaeology from the University of Milan, and a MRes in Byzantine Studies from the University of Birmingham, where he was mentored by Ruth Macrides and Michael Whitby. He earned his PhD in History from King’s College London in 2023. Funded by the AHRC (LAHP), his doctoral thesis, Consular Dating and Consular Dissemination in Late Antiquity, was supervised by Peter Heather and Nikolaos Gonis.

Before his current role, Marco Dosi served as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Classics, teaching Roman history from the Foundation period to Justinian. He has also worked on digital humanities projects at King’s and at the School of Advanced Study (University of London).

Dr Marco Dosi has delivered seminars, talks and lectures at institutions in Rome, Milan, Galway, London and Birmingham. He is a member of the Societies for the Promotion of Roman and Byzantine Studies, the British Epigraphy Society and the American Society of Papyrologists. A co-organiser of the 2023 Digital Classicist London Seminar, he also serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Open Humanities Data and Plekos. His field experience includes archaeological excavations in Italy and epigraphical surveys across Greece, Turkey, Israel/Palestine and Jordan.

He welcomes enquiries from students and colleagues at any career stage who share his research interests or wish to collaborate on the DataCons Project.

Research Interests

Dr Marco Dosi’s research is situated at the intersection of late Roman history, documentary papyrology and epigraphy, and digital humanities. His work focuses on the late antique consulship, approaching the consular dating system as a proxy for analysing administrative and diplomatic connectivity across the Mediterranean.

By integrating traditional philological analysis with geospatial modelling, he investigates how the dissemination of dating formulas reflects shifting diplomatic relations between the Eastern and Western courts and, by extension, the circulation of information within the Empire.

Beyond this core focus, Marco Dosi maintains a long-standing interest in the historiography of the “Fall of Rome,” contrasting contemporary silences with the narratives of later tradition. This encompasses the study of imperial ideology, historical memory and propaganda in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds.

For more details, please see the full research profile.

Selected publications

• (forthcoming) Dosi, M., & Heather, P. (2025). DataCons: The Digital Database of Late Roman Consular Dates. (with contributions from A. Licudi & K. Baker). [Version1.0]. King’s College London. London
• (2025) Dosi M. ‘Review of: Brucklacher, Bastian: Res publica continuata. Politischer Mythos und historische Semantik einer spätantiken Ordnungsmetapher. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh 2023 (Antike Imperien 4). XII, 642 S. ISBN 978-3-506-79021-7’, Plekos: Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike. Accessible from: https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2025/r-brucklacher.pdf
• (2024) Dosi M. ‘The Datacons Project: An Open-access Dataset of Late Roman Consular Dates.’ Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 9, pp. 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.130
• (2023) Burgi, K., Bushnell, M., Dosi M., Dunwoody, S., Fox, J., Ghelarducci, V., Kono, K., Lowe, I., McDermott, C., Meredith, G., Ohge, C., Pisanelli, L., Saunders, N., Steer, M., Trinkwon, G., Walters, E., Winters, J., & Zolotariof, E. Mapping the Arts & Humanities in the UK. University of London School of Advanced Studies. Accessible from: https://www.humanities.org.uk
• (2023). Dosi M., Consular Dating and Consular Dissemination in Late Antiquity. PhD dissertation, King’s College London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18742/pqvw-fh97
• (2023) Dosi M., ‘The DataCons Project: An Open-Access Archive of Late Roman Consular Dates’ (2.0.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10251711