Dr Nick Evans
- Position: Visiting Research Fellow (2023-24)
- Areas of expertise: Medieval; Byzantium; Caucasus; Eurasian Steppe; Late Antiquity; Economic Anthropology; Archaeology; Material Culture; Global History; Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet Cultural History
- Email: N.Evans1@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: https://leeds.academia.edu/NickEvans
Profile
I am an early medieval historian, specialising in Byzantium, the Caucasus and the Eurasian steppe. My undergraduate and postgraduate studies were at the University of Oxford. I was a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at the University of Leeds in 2022-23. I have previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Moving Byzantium Project at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Medieval History at King’s College London.
Research interests
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Byzantine economic and social history
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Late Antique and Medieval Caucasus
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Medieval Eurasian steppe societies
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Medieval economic anthropology
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Approaches to pre-modern imperialism
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The history of archaeology in Ukraine, Russia and the former Soviet Union
My research integrates material culture and the textual sources to investigate the social and economic history of the West Eurasian steppe and the frontiers of the Byzantine and Islamic worlds. I am also interested in the cultural and intellectual contexts of Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet archaeological scholarship. My current project is on medieval economic anthropology. The project compares western medieval, Byzantine and Muslim writing about economic behaviour in other societies, and explores the underlying assumptions about how economies work that this writing reveals.
Research projects
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Qualifications
- DPhil History, University of Oxford, 2012-2016
- MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford, 2011-12
- BA History and Russian, University of Oxford, 2007-2011.
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Member of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
- Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Qualifications
- DPhil History, University of Oxford, 2012-2016
- MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford, 2011-12
- BA History and Russian, University of Oxford, 2007-2011.
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Member of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
- Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies