Alexander Skinner
Virtual Centre for Late Antiquity, Board of Directors, Department Member
- Cardiff University, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Department Memberadd
- Social and political history of the later Roman Empire and the early middle ages, Late Roman Aristocracies, Late roman villas, Late Roman Army, Early Medieval Economic History, Early Medieval Economy, and 45 moreSasanian Empire, Sasanian Archaeology, Sasanian History, Roman Near East, Roman Economy, Late Roman and early Byzantine fortifications, Late Antique Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Late Roman Archaeology, Later Roman Empire, Early Medieval History, Early Middle Ages (History), Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire, Libanius, Themistius, Ausonius, Antiquite Tardive, Spätantike, Tardoantigüedad, Tardoantico, Ammianus Marcellinus, Antigüedad Tardía, Antiquité tardive, Byzantine Studies, Late Roman and Early Byzantine Syria-Palestine, Late Roman and Visigothic Hispania, Roman North Africa (Archaeology), Roman North Africa, Late Roman and Early Byzantine Anatolia, Antioch and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, Constantinople, Ancient Antioch, Antioch, Antioch of Syria, Regionalism and the Later Roman Aristocracy, House of Aion Paphos, Santo Mazzarino, Sir Moses Finley, Sir Ronald Syme, Roman social history, Peter Brown, Isaiah Berlin, and Spatantikeedit
- CURRENT RESEARCH Mainly focused on late Roman aristocracies, eastern and western, c.300-c.500. In particular, the soc... moreCURRENT RESEARCH
Mainly focused on late Roman aristocracies, eastern and western, c.300-c.500. In particular, the social formation of provincial aristocracies and their relations with both imperial rule and local society.
EDUCATION
PhD in History, University of London (University College London), 2011
Fulbright Scholar, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Yale University, 1998-9
BA Hons, Ancient & Modern History, Oxford University, 1996
RECOGNITION
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2014
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, 2012
Norman Hepburn Baynes Prize, University of London, 2004edit