EDUCATION:

• 2013: Doctorate of Philosophy (Phd) in Byzantine Studies, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham – United Kingdom.
  Project: Social structure and relations in fourteenth century Byzantium
  supervisor: Dr Ruth Macrides. Defended on 27/02/2013; examiners: Emeritus Professor Michael Angold (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Jean-Claude Cheynet from the (University of Paris – Sorbonne).
• 2008: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Byzantine History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete – Greece (degree: 9.2 out of 10).
  MPhil dissertation: Το γένος των Ρωμαίων το 12^ο αιώνα (The genos of the Romaioi in the twelfth century), Rethymno 2008. Online access at http://elocus.lib.uoc.gr/dlib/3/b/f/metadata-dlib-13ea583b8e924da363fd5b0dbcc288f3_1243838527.tkl
• 2004: Certificate of the School of Letters (BA), Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete – Greece (degree: 8.55 out of 10).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• April 2023 – August 2024: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Byzantine Studies, University of Cologne.
  Research project: "Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies".
• October 2021 – April 2022: Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Karls Eberhard University of Tübingen.
• August 2018 – March 2021: Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department for Byzantine Studies, University of Cologne.
  Research project: “Administering the waters: the administration of the middle Byzantine Aegean (7th–12th c.)”.
• April 2015 – April 2016: Postdoctoral researcher in Boğazici University (Istanbul) after a fellowship from TÜBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) for the project: “Social structure, mentalities and relations in Late Byzantium”.
• May 2014 – October 2015: Postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Athens enrolled in the project: "ARISTEIA II-4492: Towards an institutional and social history of Byzantine Asia Minor on the evidence of seals and other sources (7th – 13th centuries)".
• 2014 Summer Fellowship in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Centre, Harvard University.
  Research project: “The evolution of offices and titles in twelfth century Byzantium”.
• September 2013 – June 2014: Senior Research Fellow in the RCAC (Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) of Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  Research project: “The Latin Roman heritage in Byzantium (9th15th centuries)”.
• May 2007 – March 2008: Research assistant in the Institute of Mediterranean Studies/Institute for Technology and Research 3 (Rethymnon, Greece) on the research project: “Movements and literacy in the Aegean region, 15th – 18th centuries”. Research in relevant scientific journals, collection of information related to the research program and creation of a bibliographical database in Microsoft Access.
• 14/07/2003 – 28/08/2003: Voluntary employee in the Historical Archives of Crete (Chania, Greece). Register and classification of periodicals and newspapers (Cretan press), books and archival stuff.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• 10.2022 – 02.2023: Contract teacher in the Military Academy for Permanent Non-Commissioned Officers, Ministry of Defence (Greece).
  Course: Political history.
• 10.2020 – 06.2021: Teaching fellow in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Greece).
  Courses: Social history of Byzantium, Historiography and reception of Byzantium, Institutions of Byzantine society.
• 10.2019 – 06.2020: Teaching fellow in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Greece).
  Courses: Social history of Byzantium, Historiography and reception of Byzantium, Institutions of Byzantine society.
• 10.2017 – 06.2018: Teaching fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece).
  Course: History of the Late Byzantine period (1204-1461).
• August 2013: Instructor in the Byzantine Greek Summer School held in the University of Birmingham (40 teaching hours in total) to international graduate students and researchers (Intermediate and Advanced Levels).
• 2009-2010: Teaching Development program of the University of Birmingham, which included the attendance of courses on teaching skills 11 (PGTA 012-013) and active participation in a graduate class (supervisor: Professor Dimiter Angelov, Harvard University).
• 2009: Private lessons of Byzantine Greek to English-speaking students and help with translation of Medieval Greek inscriptions to English (University of Birmingham).
• 2004 (spring semester): Internship in teaching in high school education (University of Crete).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Peer reviewer for the scientific journals Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Byzantina Symmeikta, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Gephyra and Phoenix.
• Creation and administration of an online database (database TAKTIKON: the structure and prosopography of the Byzantine themes of Asia Minor) with the help of an IT private company.
• 03/2016 – 09/2016: Military service in the Directorate of the History of the Greek Army and in the Agency of the Greek Military Archives. Director of a team of another six soldiers for the project “History of the Military Divisions”. Research in classified and top-classified documents in order to find evidence related to the history of the great Land Army Divisions.
• Research trips and communication with curators of collections of Byzantine seals in museums and other private collections in order to achieve publication rights, or to study and photograph in person of the relevant specimens (Hermitage State Museum, Institute Française des Études Byzantines (IFEB), Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Athens Numismatic Museum, Sofia Archaeological Museum, Bucharest National Museum, Romanian Academy of Sciences).
• Organisation of a session in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22–27 August 2022, Venice and Padua, entitled “The potential of sigillography as a source in Byzantine Studies”.
• Organisation of the International Workshop The prosopography of the thematic administration: old and new evidence on the Opsikion, the Anatolikoi and the Kibyrraiotai, 19 June 2015, Academy of Athens. Selection of invited speakers, organization of the program, review and evaluation of the abstracts, cooperation with the speakers and aid in research matters of their papers, peer review and editing of the papers to be published in the proceedings, other organizational issues.
• December 2009 – October 2010: Curator of the library of the Center for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies

The Aegean in the middle Byzantine period (7th-12th c.): a reconstruction of a tableau of the administration on the basis of old and new evidence

The TAKTIKON project

Monograph:

Social Stratification in Late Byzantium, Edinburgh University Press (spring 2023: in print).

Edited volume:

TAKTIKON: Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata, Academy of Athens: Athens 2021. Together with O. Karagiorgou and Pantelis Charalampakis (eds.).

Articles:

1. “An unpublished seal of Konstantinos Philosophos, his family, and the thema of the Islands”, Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta (ZRVI) 60 (2022), 27-53.
2. “In the service of the imperial Opsikion: the corpus of officials”, in TAKTIKON: Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata, Athens 2021, 277-401.
3. “The thema of the Anatolikoi: prosopography and administrative structure”, in TAKTIKON: Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata, Athens 2021, 411-512.
4. “Το Αιγαίο, οι Κυκλάδες και η θέση της Πάρου στο διοικητικό σύστημα κατά τη βυζαντινή εποχή”, D. Katsonopoulou (ed.), Paros through the ages - from prehistoric times to the 16th century AD, Paros V, Paros 2021, 437- 460.
5. “Some seals from officials of the theme of Seleukeia”, in ΧΕΡΣΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ: Империя и Полис. XI Международный Византийский Семинар: Материалы Научной конференции, Sevastopol 2019, 227-232.
6. “Trial process and justice in the late patriarchal court”, in C. Gastgeber, E. Mitsiou (eds.), The Patriarchate of Constantinople in context and comparison, Vienna 2017, 161-174.
7. “State officials in the themes of Opsikion, the Anatolikoi and the Kibyrraiotai: new and recently revisited sigillographic evidence”, Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα 26 (2016), 247-308 (in collaboration with Dr Olga Karagiorgou and Dr Pantelis Charalampakis).
8. “The ‘social aspects’ of the second civil war (1341–1354)”, in M.-H. Congourdeau (ed.), Thessalonique au temps des Zélotes (1342-1350). Actes de la table ronde organisée dans le cadre du 22e Congrés international des études byzantines à Sofia, le 25 août 2011, Paris 2014, 99–116.
9. "O μύθος των Ζηλωτών της Θεσσαλονίκης (The myth of the Zealots of Thessalonike)", Byzantiaka 30 (2012-2013), 231–244.
10. "The making of an ethnic group: the Romaioi in the 12th–13th centuries", in K. Dimadis (ed.), Proceedings of the IVth European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, 9–12 September 2010, Granada, Spain: Identities in the Greek world (from 1204 to the present day), Athens 2011, 419–430.
11. "Η ελληνικότητα του Βυζαντίου στη μεταπολεμική ιστοριογραφία (The Greek nature of Byzantium in the Post-War historiography)", Ιστορικά Θέματα 104 (July 2011).
12. "The perception of the Roman heritage in 12th century Byzantium", Rosetta 7.5 (2009), 1-8.
13. “The early history of the thema of the Boukellarioi (8th century)”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift (ΒΖ) 116.1 (2023), 147-184.
    Forthcoming articles:
14. “Remarks on the collection of Byzantine lead seals of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (University of Birmingham)”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (BMGS) 47 (2023).
15. “Selected lead seals from an unpublished private collection in Germany”, Revue des études byzantines (REB) 81 (2023).
16. “The early genikoi logothetai: status, seals and prosopography (mid-7th to mid-9th c.)”, in In memoriam Jordanov, Sofia 2023, ca. 38 pp.
17. “Τα μοναστήρια του Αγίου Όρους και η επαρχιακή κοινωνία στο Ύστερο Βυζάντιο”, in the Πρακτικά του Γ' Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Εργαστηρίου της Αγιορείτικης Εστίας, Thessaloniki 2023, ca. 16 pp.
18. “Networking, Petition and Philanthropia in Palaiologan Constantinople”, in The post-1204 Byzantine world: new approaches and novel directions (ed. N. Gaul et alii). Leiden: Brill 2023, ca. 23 pp.
19. “Towards the upper echelon: agency and social ascent in Late Byzantium”, in C. Rapp, Y. Stouraitis (eds.), Microstructures and Mobility in Byzantium, Vienna University Press 2023, ca. 22 pp.

Rezensionen:

• “Anthony Kaldellis, Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2019. Pp. xix, 374”, Phoenix 73.1-2 (2019), 201-203.
• “Θεοδώρα Παπαδοπούλου, Συλλογικὴ ταυτότητα καὶ αὐτογνωσία στὸ Βυζάντιο. Συμβολὴ στὸν προσδιορισμὸ τῆς αὐτοαντίληψης τῶν Βυζαντινῶν κατὰ τὴν λόγια γραμματεία τους (11ος - ἀρχὲς 13ου αἰ.). Ἀθῆναι: Σύλλογος πρὸς διάδοσιν ὡφελίμων βιβλίων, 2015”, Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα 28 (2018), 375-379.
• “Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou and Jean-Claude Cheynet, Sceaux de la collection Zacos au musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2016. Pp. 523”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42 (2017), 174-176.

1. Changes in Civil Administration During the Emergence of the Thematic System (7th–9th Centuries), in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2022, Venice and Padua.
2. Rituality and Gestures in Late Byzantine Culture, in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2022, Venice and Padua.
3. Networks and mobility of the state functionaries during the “Dark Ages“, in the Arbeitstagung der deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien, 17–18 February 2022, Münster (Germany).
4. Byzantine lead seals and the mobility of functionaries in the Early Medieval period, invited lecture on 10/01/2022 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany).
5. Lead seals and communication networks in the Byzantine world, invited lecture on 02/12/2021 at the University of Marburg (Germany).
6. The contribution of sigillography to the Byzantine institutional history, in Bizans Sigillografisi Çalıştayı for Bizantolog and the Stavros Niarchos Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM), Koç University, 20-21 September 2021 (online due to COVID-19 pandemic). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UidA1OdCQ58&ab_channel=Bizant olog
7. The relation of the Byzantines to their Latin Roman past, invited lecture on 10/09/2021 at the Argentine Center of Byzantine Studies, Buenos Aires (Argentina) (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
8. Byzantine lead seals as a source for Byzantine institutional history, invited lecture on 02/12/2020 at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
9. Provincial administration in Byzantium in the light of lead seals, seminar in the Sigidoc Autumn School: Encoding Byzantine seals, 2-6 November 2020. Cologne, Germany (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic). https://www.academia.edu/video/1Mv2rl
10. The Middle Byzantine Aegean: Administration, Officials and their Seals, seminar in the Byzantinischen Sigillographischen Kolloquium, University of Cologne, 10 June 2020 (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
11. Βυζαντινές σφραγίδες από το Barber Institute of Fine Arts in the 10th Conference of Greek Byzantinists, 27-30 November 2019, Ioannina (Greece).
12. The Romaioi and the Romans: the Latin Roman heritage in Byzantium, in the 7th International Symposium "Days of Justinian I": Identities, 15-16 November 2019, Skopje.
13. The mobility of Byzantine provincial officials: the evidence of lead seals, in the 2019 International Medieval Congress, 2-5 July 2019, Leeds (United Kingdom).
14. Η θέση της Πάρου στο διοικητικό σύστημα κατά την μέση βυζαντινή περίοδο, in Fifth International Conference on the archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades (Paros V), 21-24 June 2019, Paros (Greece).
15. Some seals from officials of the theme of Seleukeia, in the ΧI International Crimean Byzantine Seminar «ΧΕΡΣΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ: EMPIRE AND POLIS», 3-7 June 2019, Sevastopol.
16. Administering the waters: new sigillographic evidence on the administration of the Aegean in the XIIth International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography, 28-30 May 2019, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
17. The administration of the Aegean in the middle Byzantine period (7th-12th c.), in Arbeitstagung der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien, 14-16 February 2019, Hamburg.
18. Τα μοναστήρια του Αγίου Όρους και η επαρχιακή κοινωνία στο Ύστερο Βυζάντιο in Γ' Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Εργαστήριο της Αγιορειτικής Εστίας, 7-9 December 2018, Thessaloniki. Available online at https://vimeo.com/album/5620835/video/306269559.
19. Towards the upper echelon: agency and social ascent in Late Byzantium, in International Medieval Congress 2018, 2-5 July 2018, Leeds (United Kingdom), invited lecture.
20. Networking, Petition and Philanthropia in Palaiologan Constantinople, in 51st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: the post-1204 Byzantine world: new approaches and novel directions, 13-15 April 2018, Edinburgh, invited lecture.
21. Byzantine lead seals of the theme of Samos, in International Symposium on the port cities of the Aegean world: coins, seals and weights, 1-2 November 2017, Smyrna and Magnesia (Turkey).
22. TAKTIKON: The online research tool on Byzantine themes, in 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2016, Belgrade (together with O. Karagiorgou and P. Charalampakis).
23. Το ψηφιακό ΤΑΚΤΙΚΟΝ: Ένα νέο εργαλείο για τη μελέτη των θεματικών θεσμών. To παράδειγμα του Οψικίου in 1st Meeting of Greek Byzantinists, 16-18 December 2015, Athens.
24. The earthly order: social stratification in late Byzantium, invited lecture in Boğaziçi University, Constantinople, 10 December 2015.
25. The social structure in the town and periphery of Serres (13th-14th centuries), in International Medieval conference: Town and country in the Byzantine world: social and economic perspectives, 7-8 May 2015, American Research Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria.
26. Κοινωνική δομή, κοινωνικές αντιλήψεις και παραγωγικές σχέσεις in ύστερο Βυζάντιο, 21 April 2015, invited lecture in the University of Crete, Rethymno.
27. Byzantium as Greece: the scholarship on the character of Byzantium in the 20th century in Transformation and adaptation: the reception of Byzantium between the 16th and 21st centuries, 5-6 September 2014, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland).
28. Old Rome in New Rome: Byzantine identity and the imperial Roman heritage, in Texts, Monuments and heritage of Byzantine Constantinople, 16 May 2014, Koç University, Constantinople.
29. Byzantium in the twelfth century: the creation of an identity, in Tradition and transformation: Dissent and consent in the Mediterranean, 30 May–1 June 2013, Central European University, Budapest.
30. The society of Serres in the fourteenth century: the microcosm of the empire?, in XLVΙth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, 23-25 March 2013, Birmingham.
31. H διαλεκτική του σεβασμού και η κοινωνική "συντηρητικότητα" της Βυζαντινής λογοτεχνίας, in Παρεκβολών ημέρα: ημερίδα διαλόγου για τη Βυζαντινή λογοτεχνία, 15 December 2012, Athens.
32. Trial process and justice in the late Patriarchal court, in The Patriarchate of Constantinople in Context and Comparison, 12-15 September 2012, Vienna, invited lecture.
33. Η κοινωνία των Σερρών το 14ο αι. in the 33rd National Historical Conference, 25-27 on May 2012, Thessaloniki.
34. Considerations the civil aristocracy in the late period, in XLVth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, 24–26 March 2012, Oxford.
35. The social aspects of the second civil war, in 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2011, Sofia.
36. Ο μύθος των Ζηλωτών της Θεσσαλονίκης, in 32nd National Historical Conference, 27-29 May 2011, Thessaloniki.
37. Social relations and economic situation in Constantinople during the siege of Bayezid I (1394-1402), in IIIe Rencontres annuelles internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, 15–16 October 2010, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris.
38. The making of an ethnic group: the Romaioi in the 12th-13th centuries, in 4th Paneuropean Congress of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies, 9-12 September 2010, Granada (Spain).
39. The subversion of power and law in Byzantine provincial society (10th-12 centuries), in XLIIIth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, 27-29 March 2010, Birmingham.
40. The ethnic identity of the Romaioi in the 12th-13th centuries, in The 2010 International Graduate Conference: Being Byzantine, definitions, limits and realities, 5-6 March 2010, The History Faculty, University of Oxford.
41. The perception of the Roman heritage in 12th century Byzantium, in XLIIth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, 20–22 March 2009, The King’s College, London.

• SoSe 2024 Vorlesung Strukturen und Institutionen der byzantinischen Gesellschaft (mit C. Sode)
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