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Arietta Papaconstantinou is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading, affiliated with the Department of Classics. Her research focuses on the religious, social, and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate, particularly the evolution of Christian communities under early Islamic rule. She employs interdisciplinary methods, integrating papyrology, epigraphy, archaeology, and textual analysis.
- Education: MA and PhD in Ancient History from Université de Strasbourg.
- Research Affiliations: Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM), Centre for Economic History, and associate memberships at Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity and Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance (Paris).
Her scholarly projects include a Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded study (2014–2016) on rural credit systems in Egypt and Palestine (4th–8th centuries) and collaborations with international initiatives like Provinces et Empires: l'Égypte islamique dans le monde antique and the Defining the Global Middle Ages network. She has edited seminal works such as The Cult of Saints (Oxford) and Mélanges Jean Gascou, emphasizing multilingual source integration (Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic).
