James Corke-Webster

James Corke-Webster is a Reader in Classics and History at King's College London, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Classics. He directs the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies and the MA in Global Cultures. His research focuses on early Christian history, late antiquity, historiography, hagiography, persecution, and epistolography. He holds a Ph.D. from Manchester University, with postgraduate studies at Oxford and Cambridge, and a Fulbright Scholarship at UC Berkeley.

Corke-Webster’s major works include Eusebius and Empire (2019), which reinterpreted early Christian historiography, and co-edited volumes on Justin of Rome and hagiography. He is currently investigating Roman persecution mechanisms through comparative historiography and collaborates on projects about Roman governance and Graeco-Roman performance culture in early Christianity.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Higher Education Authority, and contributes to academic leadership roles such as the Roman Society Council and the QAA Advisory Group. Public engagement includes BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, HistoryHit podcasts, and curating the Letters of Refuge exhibition linking ancient and modern displacement narratives. His teaching spans Roman history modules and interdisciplinary Global Cultures programs.