People

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

Director

Professor Niels Gaul (A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies, HCA)

Co-director

Dr Marie Legendre (Lecturer in Islamic History, IMES)

Members

Dr Fedor Benevich (Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy, PPLS)

Dr Louise Blanke (Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology, HCA)

Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine, HCA)

Dr Andreas Görke (Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, IMES)

Professor Gavin Kelly (Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History, HCA)

Dr Kirsty Stewart (Projects and Operations Manager, ECA)

Dr Yannis Stouraitis (Lecturer in Byzantine History, HCA)

Dr Justin Stover (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin, HCA)

Stefano Nicastro (PhD researcher, HCA/IMES)

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 a Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy (PPLS).
4. Dr Louise Blanke is Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology (HCA).
5. Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine (HCA).
6. Dr Tom Brown was a Reader in Medieval History and is now an Honorary Fellow in History (HCA).
7. Dr Mike Carr is Lecturer in Late Medieval History (HCA).
8. Dr Roger Collins is an Honorary Fellow in History (HCA).
9. Professor Jim Crow holds the Chair in Classical Archaeology (HCA).
10. Professor Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies (HCA).
11. Dr Andreas Görke is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies (IMES).
12. Dr Lucy Grig is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History (HCA).
13. Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (IMES).
14. Professor Carole Hillenbrand FBA is Professor Emerita of Islamic History (IMES).
15. Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art (IMES).
16. Professor Gavin Kelly is Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History (HCA).
17. Dr Marie Legendre is a Lecturer in Islamic History (IMES).
18. Dr Calum Maciver is Senior Lecturer in Classics (HCA).
19. Dr Nik Matheou will be joining CLAIBS as a Lecturer in Global Medieval History from academic year 2022/3 (HCA).
20. Dr Zubin Mistry (HCA) is Lecturer in Medieval History.
21. Professor Margaret Mullett OBE is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Byzantine Studies (HCA).
22. Dr Sara Parvis is Senior Lecturer in Patristics (Div).
23. Dr Paul Parvis is an Honorary Fellow in Patristics (Div).
24. Dr Aaron Pelttari is Senior Lecturer in Late Antique Latin (HCA).
25. Dr Salam Rassi will be joining CLAIBS as Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations from academic year 2022/3 (Div).
26. Dr Ben Russell is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology (HCA).
27. Professor Eberhard Sauer is Professor of Roman Archaeology (HCA).
28. Dr Riley Snyder is a Research Associate with the ‘Earthen Empire’ project (Engineering).
29. Dr Richard Sowerby is Lecturer in Medieval History (HCA).
30. Dr Foteini Spingou is a Research Fellow in Byzantine Literary History (HCA).
31. Dr Kirsty Stewart is the Projects and Operations Manager at ECA.
32. Dr Yannis Stouraitis is Lecturer in Byzantine History (HCA).
33. Dr Justin Stover is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin (HCA).
34. Dr Madalina Toca is RSE Saltire Early Career Fellow in Late Antique & Byzantine Literature (HCA).
35. Dr Belinda Washington is REF & Research Support Administrator at 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)