John F. Haldon FBA ( 23 October 1948 in

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) is a British

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, and Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History emeritus, professor of

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and Hellenic Studies emeritus, as well as former director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for

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and

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Studies at

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Early life and education

Haldon is from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He received his bachelor's degree from the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

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, his master's degree from

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, and his PhD from the

, in the UK. Haldon also studied Modern Greek at the University of Athens. He initially wanted to study Roman-British history and work on post-Roman Britain, but eventually changed his field of study.

Career

From 1980 to 1995, he was junior professor at the

. From 1995 to 2000, he was director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the

. From 2000 to 2005, Haldon served as head of the School of Historical Studies at the

. He was a senior fellow at the

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Center for

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Studies,

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from 2007 to 2013 and was professor of Byzantine history and Hellenic studies at Princeton University since from 2005 to 2018. Haldon also served as the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History at Princeton since 2009 and the director of graduate studies for the Princeton History Department from 2009 to 2018. From 2013 to 2018 he was founding director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. From 2013 he has been director of the Princeton Climate Change and History Research Initiative, and since 2018 director of the Environmental History Lab for the Program i Medieval Studies. He is the author and co-author of over 25 books, including ''The De Thematibus (‘on the themes’) of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and detailed notes'',''The empire that would not die: The paradox of eastern Roman survival, 640 – 740'', ''A tale of two saints: the passions and miracles of Sts Theodore 'the recruit' and 'the general, ''A Critical Commentary on the Taktika of Leo VI'' and ''Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era: A History'', with

Leslie Brubaker Leslie Brubaker (born 1951) is an expert in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts. She was appointed Professor of Byzantine Art at the University of Birmingham in 2005, and is now Professor Emerita. Her research interests includes female patronage, ...

. His research focuses on the history of the medieval eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire, in particular in the period from the seventh to the twelfth centuries; on state systems and structures across the European and Islamic worlds from late ancient to early modern times; on the impact of environmental stress on societal resilience in premodern social systems; and on the production, distribution and consumption of resources in the late ancient and medieval world.

Awards and honors

*Fellow of the British Academy (2021) *Member,

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*Member, British Institute at Ankara *President of the

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*Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in

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(2010)

Selected Bibliography

Books (author)

*''Recruitment and Conscription in the Byzantine Army c. 550-950: A Study on the Origins of the Stratiotika'', Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna, Austria), 1979. *''Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900'', R. Habelt (Bonn, Germany), 1984. *(Translator, and author of introduction and commentary) ''Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions'', Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna, Austria), 1990. *''Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture'', Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1990. *''The State and the Tributary Mode of Production'', Verso (New York, NY), 1993. *''State, Army, and Society in Byzantium: Approaches to Military, Social, and Administrative History, 6th-12th Centuries'', Variorum (Brookfield, VT), 1995. *Contributor to Virgil S. Crisafulli and John W. Nesbitt, editors, ''The Miracles of St. Artemio: A Collection of Miracle Stories by an Anonymous Author of Seventh-Century Byzantium'', E. J. Brill (New York, NY), 1997. *''Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204'', UCL Press (London, England), 1999. *''Byzantium: A History'', Tempus Publishing (London, England), 2000. *(With

) ''Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (c. 680–850): The Sources: An Annotated Survey'', Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 2001. *''The Byzantine Wars: Battles and Campaigns of the Byzantine Era'', Tempus Publishing (London, England), 2001. *''Byzantium at War'', Osprey (London, England), 2002. *''The Byzantine Wars'', The History Press, (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 2008. *Editor (With

Elizabeth Jeffreys Elizabeth Jeffreys FAHA (born 22 July 1941) was Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1996–2006. She is now Emeritus Professor, and Emer ...

and

Robin Cormack Robin Sinclair Cormack, FSA (born 27 September 1938) is a British classicist and art historian, specialising in Byzantine art. He was Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991–2004. Mary Career ...

), ''The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies'', Oxford University Press (New York, New York), 2008. *Editor, ''The Social History of Byzantium'', Wiley, 2009. *''The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine history'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. *''A Critical Commentary on the Taktika of Leo VI'', Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2014. *''The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740'', Harvard University Press, 2016. *''A tale of two saints: the passions and miracles of Sts Theodore 'the recruit' and 'the general, Liverpool UP, 2016 *Editor (With Hugh Elton and James Newhard), ''Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia Euchaïta-Avkat-Beyözü and Its Environment'', Cambridge University Press, 2018. *''The De Thematibus (‘on the themes’) of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and detailed notes'', Liverpool UP, 2021

References

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