Phil Booth

Professor Phil Booth is the A.G. Leventis Associate Professor in Eastern Christianity at the University of Oxford, split equally between the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of History. He is a Research Fellow at St Peter's College and serves as Director of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity. His expertise lies in the history of eastern Christianities within the eastern Roman, Sasanian, and Islamic caliphate empires from the 4th to 10th centuries.

Booth holds a BA, MPhil, and PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Oxford in 2012 as Lecturer in Eastern Christianity, he held a Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. His research explores ecclesiastical institutions, imperial interactions, and religious identity formation in late antiquity.

Publications span topics such as Sasanian Egypt, non-Chalcedonian Christians under Khusrau II, and the cultural dynamics of early Islamic Egypt. He contributes to academic discourse through editorial work for Translated Texts for Historians (Liverpool University Press) and maintains an active profile in international conferences and scholarly networks.