Staff

Director of the Centre

Academic and teaching staff

Dr Ferenc Csirkés

Dr Ferenc Csirkés

Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-modern Islamicate World

Dr Csirkés’s research interests include Iranian history, Ottoman history, Ottoman Turkish literature, Persian literature, cultural history, Central Asian history, and Central Asian literature.

Email
f.p.csirkes@bham.ac.uk

Dr Archie Dunn

Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology

Archie Dunn is a Member of the Council of the British School at Athens, the Committee of the Cotton Foundation and  the editorial board of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He directs the Survey of Ancient Thisve/Byzantine Kastorion (Central Greece)in collaboration with the Greek Archaeological Service.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45510
Email
a.w.dunn@bham.ac.uk

Dr Christopher Markiewicz

Dr Christopher Markiewicz

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

I am the Associate Professor in Ottoman and Islamic History  in the Department of History and a member of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies. My research focuses on the intellectual and political history of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. I am particularly interested in how ideas about history and the nature of kingship in ...

Email
c.markiewicz@bham.ac.uk

Dr Steve Morewood

Associate Professor in International History

I specialise in the impact of Great Power intervention in the Balkans and Middle East in terms of diplomacy and conflict, predominantly from a British perspective. My teaching reflects these interests and more broader interests such as the origins of the two world wars and the Cold War. Modules taught include ‘Conflict in the Modern Middle East’, ‘Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5508
Email
s.morewood@bham.ac.uk

Dr Daniel Reynolds

Dr Daniel Reynolds

Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History

Daniel Reynolds is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History with research interests in the material and visual culture of the Byzantine empire, the Byzantine and early Islamic Levant (c.350-c.1099), “iconoclasm” and the history of peasant and non-elite communities (c.400-1000). He is co-director of the project “At the Crossroads of Empires: the Longobard Church of ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8336
Email
d.k.reynolds@bham.ac.uk

Dr Maria Vrij

Coin Curator, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Maria Vrij is curator of the coin collection at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, which comprises over 16,000 objects, most of which are Byzantine, but also includes around 5,000 Roman coins. In this role she facilitates academic research and teaching (undergraduate, postgraduate, and schools outreach) with the collection.

Maria’s research interests mainly concern the coinage of the ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7332 (office)/+44 (0)121 414 3730 (coin study room)
Email
m.c.vrij@bham.ac.uk

Honorary and Emeritus staff

Dr Rhoads Murphey

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

The History of the Turks, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern, has been my avocation since my first visit to Turkey as a teenager in 1966 and my principal occupation since I completed by doctoral studies at the age of thirty.

 

Email
r.murphey@bham.ac.uk

Professor Dimitris Tziovas

Professor Dimitris Tziovas

Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek Studies

I taught at the University of Birmingham for over thirty five years and have supervised many research students. Their research has been disseminated internationally through publication in books or peer-reviewed journals and the standard of my supervision has been recognised by a University Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision (2010). In 2022 I received the Grand Greek State ...

Email
d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk