
Prof. John Haldon served as Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies from 2013-2018. He was Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department from July 2009-June 2018. His research focuses on the social, economic and institutional history of the medieval eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire and on the environmental history of the medieval Eurasian world. He is the author and co-author of more than two dozen books. His most recent books are Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Euchaita-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment; The Empire that would not Die: the Paradox of Byzantine Survival ca 660-720; and A Tale of Two Saints: The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Sts. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ and ‘the General’. He is director of the long-term Climate Change and History Research Initiative.
Selected Publications

Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Euchaita-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment
With Hugh Elton and James Newhard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Empire that would not Die: the Paradox of Byzantine Survival ca 660-720
Boston: Harvard University Press, 2016.

A Tale of Two Saints: The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Sts. Theodore ‘The Recruit’ and ‘The General’
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.