Alicia Simpson

BA, History, Deree -The American College of Greece; MA, Late Antique & Byzantine Studies, King’s College London; PhD, Byzantine Studies, King’s College London

Alicia Simpson was awarded her PhD in Byzantine Studies from King’s College London (2004). She has been a member of the Deree Faculty since September 2018, teaching courses in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval European History. Professor Simpson is the recipient of several research fellowships and grants, including a fellowship in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University (2007), an Onassis Foundation grant (2007), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2008), and a European Research Fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation (2012-2015). Her research focuses on Byzantine literature and culture, including their late antique and classical antecedents, but she is also interested in gender studies and urban histories of the Byzantine world. Professor Simpson is the author of Niketas Choniates: A Historiographical Study (Oxford University Press, 2013) and editor of Byzantium, 1180-1204: The Sad Quarter of a Century? (National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2015).