JONATHAN HARRIS
About
My first encounter with Byzantium came when I read Robert Graves' Count Belisarius as a teenager and I studied as much of its history as I could while I was an undergraduate at King's College London. After graduating, I spent time as a secondhand bookseller and teaching English in Turkey before returning to take my Masters in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. I stayed on to write my PhD thesis under the supervision of Julian Chrysostomides. My topic was refugees from the Byzantine world in Western Europe during the fifteenth century. The thesis was later published as Greek Emigres in the West.
After completing my PhD I taught at University College, King's College and Goldsmiths' College (all in London) before returning to the History department at Royal Holloway where I still am.
You can find out more about me on my Royal Holloway page, on my Amazon author page and on my academia.edu profile.
I am a supporter of:
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
