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Nick Evans is a Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, since 2024. Previously, he held research posts at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Clare College, Cambridge, and taught at King's College London and the University of Leeds. His education includes undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on early medieval history, particularly the Caucasus, Byzantium, and the Eurasian steppe. Key projects include a study of North Caucasus highlanders (under review at OUP), medieval economic anthropology across Byzantium, the Islamic world, and Western Europe, and the Khazar Empire's role in Ukrainian history. He edits a Transactions of the Royal Historical Society special issue on economic anthropology and is writing a Brill Research Perspectives book on the Khazars.
Affiliations include the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, the University of Cambridge's Faculty of History (Associate Researcher), and King's College Cambridge (College Research Associate). He is a member of several scholarly societies, including the Royal Historical Society and the British Association for the Study of Ukraine.
Teaching modules include 'Medieval Text and Intertext' and 'The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans.' He co-convenes the Medieval Caucasus Network and contributes to Middle East Medievalists and Persianate Societies studies.
