People

The Centre is run by a steering committee composed of staff and students from within and outside the university.

Directors

Professor Lucy Grig (Professor of the History of Late Antiquity, HCA)

Dr Marie Legendre (Senior Lecturer in Islamic History, IMES)

Dr Yannis Stouraitis (Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History, HCA)

1. Dr Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art (ECA).
2. Professor Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History (HCA).
3. Dr Fedor Benevich is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy (PPLS).
4. Dr Louise Blanke is Senior Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology (HCA).
5. Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Honorary Fellow in History (HCA) and Associate Professor of the History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
6. Dr Tom Brown was Reader in Medieval History and is now Honorary Fellow in History (HCA).
7. Dr Mike Carr is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History (HCA).
8. Professor Jim Crow holds the Chair in Classical Archaeology (HCA).
9. Professor Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies (HCA).
10. Dr Andreas Görke is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies (IMES).
11. Professor Lucy Grig is Professor of the History of Late Antiquity (HCA).
12. Professor Carole Hillenbrand FBA is Professor Emerita of Islamic History (IMES).
13. Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art (IMES).
14. Professor Gavin Kelly is Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History (HCA).
15. Dr Marie Legendre is a Lecturer in Islamic History (IMES).
16. Dr Calum Maciver is Senior Lecturer in Classics (HCA).
17. Dr Nicholas Matheou is Lecturer in Global Medieval History (HCA).
18. Dr Zubin Mistry (HCA) is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History.
19. Professor Margaret Mullett OBE is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Byzantine Studies (HCA).
20. Dr Sara Parvis is Senior Lecturer in Patristics (Div).
21. Dr Paul Parvis is an Honorary Fellow in Patristics (Div).
22. Dr Aaron Pelttari is Senior Lecturer in Late Antique Latin (HCA).
23. Dr Salam Rassi is Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (Div).
24. Professor Ben Russell is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire (HCA).
25. Professor Eberhard Sauer is Professor of Roman Archaeology (HCA).
26. Dr Richard Sowerby is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History (HCA).
27. Dr Yannis Stouraitis is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History (HCA).
28. Professor Justin Stover is Professor of Medieval Latin (HCA).
29. Dr Jessica Varsallona is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Byzantine Studies (HCA)
30. Dr Belinda Washington is REF & Research Support Administrator at HCA.
31. Professor Charles West is Professor of Medieval History (HCA).

1. Bilal Adıgüzel, PhD researcher, ‘Patterns of resistance and subversion in the middle Byzantine Empire: Niketas David Paphlagon in context’ (HCA)
2. Nasser Alfalasi, PhD researcher, ‘The taxation of Muslims in the Umayyad caliphate’. Funded by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education and Zayed University (IMES)
3. Beatrice Bersani, PhD researcher, ‘The colours of God: Polychromatic imagery for the divine in late antique Latin poetry’ (HCA)
4. Vincenzo Castaldo, PhD researcher, ‘Late ceramic production and trade in the Campagna’ (HCA)
5. Elif Demirtiken, PhD researcher, ‘Monasteries and monasticism in late Byzantine Constantinople’ (HCA)
6. Masayuki Fukushima, PhD researcher, ‘Acute diseases in ancient and late antique medical literature’ (HCA)
7. Fraser Gray, PhD researcher, ‘St Ambrose and his emperors’ (Div)
8. Abdulla Haidar, PhD researcher, ‘Marwān b. al-Ḥakam in Early Arabic Sources’ (IMES)
9. Philip Harrison, ‘The use of coloured decorative stone and its ideological significance during Late Antiquity (4th–6th centuries AD) in Southern Italy, Sicily and North Africa’ (HCA)
10. Defangyu (Charles) Kong, PhD researcher, ‘Female rule: comparative perspectives on middle Byzantine and Tang empresses Eirene and Wu Zetian’ (HCA)
11. Shinichi Kubo, PhD researcher, ‘Translating Hellenic words into Christian minds: Classicising learning from the Greek Fathers through the Byzantine literary tradition’ (HCA)
12. Clara Lazzoni, PhD researcher, ‘Seeing texts, reading images: approach to late antique concrete poetry based on Optatian’ (HCA)
13. David B. Moore, MScR in Classics (Byzantine Studies) (HCA)
14. Aristotelis Nayfa, PhD researcher, ‘Monetary exchanges and social capital in the court and empire of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos’ (HCA)
15. Stefano Nicastro, PhD researcher, ‘Genoa in the Islamic Mediterranean: Transmission of knowledge between terra christianorum and the Dār al-Islām and Islamic perceptions of a Latin state in the later Middle Ages’ (HCA/IMES)
16. Sam Nwokoro, PhD researcher, ‘Political power and religious conversion in early Christian-Muslim relations: A study of allied rule in Umayyad Damascus and the making of Arab Melkite Christianity’ (Div/IMES)
17. Rory Paterson, PhD researcher, ‘Late antique love poetry’ (HCA)
18. Tim Penn, PhD researcher, ‘Relations between the rural living and their dead: contextualising countryside burials in Italy ca. 300–700 AD’ (HCA)
19. Leone Pecorini Goodall, ‘Heirs to the Caliphate: Continuity, territoriality and gender in the accession of the late Umayyads and early Abbasids’ (IMES)
20. George Pinkerton, PhD researcher, ‘Porphyry in the late antiquity and the early Byzantine periods’ (HCA)
21. Matteo Randazzo, PhD researcher, ‘Sicily and Crete between Byzantium and Islam’ (HCA)
22. Giulia Sagliardi, PhD researcher, ‘Claudian, Bellum Geticum: A literary and historical commentary’ (HCA)
23. Daiki Sano, PhD researcher, ‘Imperial decision-making and its performative communication in early Palaiologan Byzantium (1261–1328)’ (HCA)
24. Joaquín Serrano del Pozo, PhD researcher, ‘Crosses and relics of the cross in late antique and Byzantine warfare’ (HCA)
25. Sarah Slingluff, PhD researcher, ‘Occlusion and remembering al-Andalus in the cultural sites of Castilla-La Mancha’ (ECA)
26. Ruisen Zheng, MScR in History (Byzantine Studies) (HCA)