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Senior Members of Oxford University with research interests in Byzantine Studies or related subjects

Dr S.P. Brock Reader in Syriac Studies Wolfson College	Syriac literature, but including Greek literature (classical, biblical and patristic) in Syriac translation: transmission of texts, translation technique. Interaction of Syriac and Greek, language and literature, in late antiquity.
Professor A. Cameron Warden Keble College	History and literature of late antique and early Byzantine periods.
Dr P. Frankopan Senior Research Fellow Worcester College	Byzantium in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Dr C. Gallagher Tutor in Canon Law Campion Hall	Medieval canon law, with particular interest in the cononists in Constantinople and in the West from the 6th century to the 13th.
Dr T.W. Greenwood Research Fellow in Near Eastern Studies Oriental Institute	Early medieval Armenian history and historiography.
Dr P. Heather Fellow and Tutor in History Worcester College	European history, specialising in the later Roman Empire, the period of its dismemberment, and the construction of its successor states.
Dr K. Hieradiakonou Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy St Hugh's College	Byzantine philosophy.
Dr C.J. Holmes Fellow and Tutor in History University College	Byzantine history and historiography.
Mr J. D. Howard-Johnston University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies Corpus Christi College	History of Byzantium AD 500-1100: historiography, institutional development, and international relations (with special reference to Armenia and Bulgaria).
Professor E.M. Jeffreys Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature Exeter College	Byzantine literature, both learned and vernacular; epistolography, court poetry, romances. Palaeography: the manuscript environment of early Modern Greek literature (ca. 1150 - ca. 1700).
Dr M.J. Jeffreys Research Fellow, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	The manuscript and early printed environment of Modern Greek literature ca. 1100 - ca. 1700. Byzantine Prosopography, 1025 - 1261.
Dr J. Johns University Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology Wolfson College	Archaeology and history of the Mediterranean and the Levant in the Islamic centuries, with particular emphasis upon Muslim Sicily (9th - 13th centuries) and rural settlements in Jordan (7th-19th centuries).
Dr C.M. MacRobert Anne Pennington Fellow and Tutor in Russian Lady Margaret Hall	Cyrillo-Methodian Mission to the Slavs; Byzantine Greek influence on the development of Church Slavonic as a liturgical and literary language; Eastern Orthodox liturgical and hymnographical tradition among the Slavs.
Dr M.M. Mango University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art St John's College and Institute of Archaeology	Late antique and Byzantine art and archaeology, with special interest of the eastern provinces; recent research has concentrated on cities, secular art, metalware and trade.
Professor C. Mango Emeritus Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature; Leverhulme Emeritus Professor Exeter College	History, literature, art and archaeology of Byzantium; currently working on the urban history of Constantinople and a corpus of dated Byzantine inscriptions.
Mr N.J. Mayhew Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room Ashmolean Museum	Medieval numismatics and monetary and economic theory.
Professor D.M. Metcalf Emeritus Professor of Numismatics and Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room Wolfson College and Ashmolean Museum	Numismatics and monetary history of the Byzantine Empire and its Balkan and Latin neighbours.
Dr C.F. Robinson University Lecturer in Early Islamic History Wolfson College	Early Islamic history and historiography of Northern Mesopotamia; Arabic historiography 8th-12 centuries.
Professor R.W. Thomson Emeritus Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Pembroke College	The development of Armenian literary traditions during the classical/medieval period of Armenian Studies (400 to 1400 AD), with special reference to historical writing.
Mr M.J. Vickers Reader in Archaeology, Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities Jesus College and Ashmolean Museum	Curator of inter alia, the Byzantine collection at the Ashmolean Museum; recent research on the disiecta membra of Constantinople, especially those in Venice.
Mr B.R. Ward-Perkins Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Trinity College	Urban and economic life in the Roman and post-Roman worlds (East and West) ca. 300 - ca. 900 AD.
Dr M. Whittow Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Trinity College	Archaeology and history of the medieval Mediterranean and Byzantium, 500 - 1400, with particular emphasis on social and political structures, Asia Minor, castles, and settlement patterns in town and country.
Mr N.G. Wilson Fellow and Tutor in Classics Lincoln College	Greek palaeography; the fate of ancient Greek literature in Byzantium - what was read, for what reason, and with what degree of understanding.
Dr F.W. Zimmermann University Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy St Cross College	Greek into Arabic; intellectual history from late antiquity to early Islam; the Aristotelian tradition in Arabic.

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