Nacéra Benseddik

[3] She is interested in interactions between Roman migrants and people already living in North Africa, particularly in the late Antique period.

[4] She is responsible for creating a critical edition of classical and medieval sources from and on Algeria, as part of the Centre Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturale (CRASC).

[7] Her doctoral research was undertaken at Paris-Sorbonne, where she studied the cult of Aesculapius and his assimilation with the Punic god Eshmun and a Libyan healing deity.

[13] Benseddik studies how frontiers were created in Roman North Africa and has examined inscriptions that portray these points, for example at the fort at Touda.

Dating to the third and fourth centuries AD, this site demonstrates that forts were important to regulate the trade that came across the Saharan plateau and the High Plains.