Cédric Brélaz (PhD University of Lausanne 2004, Dr. habil. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 2013) is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. He was a Member of the Swiss Institute in Rome, a Foreign Member of the French School of Archaeology at Athens and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford. His research focuses on Greek political institutions and culture in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, on Roman provincial administration in the Eastern Mediterranean and on Greek and Latin epigraphy. His publications include the books La sécurité publique en Asie Mineure sous le Principat. Institutions municipales et institutions impériales dans l’Orient romain (Basel, 2005) and Corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines de Philippes, II.1. La vie publique de la colonie romaine (Athens, 2014). He has co-edited volumes on public order in the Ancient world, on ancient Greek warfare and on Roman colonization in the East.