Degrees

1970 BA in History (First-Class Hons.), Oxford

1976 DPhil in History, Oxford

Current positions

Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History, University of St Andrews (2002– )

Professor of History, Koç University, Istanbul (2005–)

Other appointments, fellowships and distinctions

1974-5 - Junior Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies

1976-7 -  Andrew J. Mellon Fellow in Early Christian Humanism, Catholic University of America.

1980-1, 1983 (April-June) - Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium at Frankfurt and Munich

1985, March-May - Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (summer term 1985)

1994, spring term - Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies

1995-6 - Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University

1997, May-June - Directeur d'études invité, École pratique des Hautes Études, IVe section

2002 - Election as Fellow of the British Academy

September 2002-August 2004 - Research Readership awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board

2005, January - Directeur d'études invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

2007, March – Directeur d’études invité, École pratique des Hautes Études, section des sciences religieuses

Editorial boards and research committees

1992 – 'The Medieval Mediterranean', Brill monograph series.

2002 –  'Oxford Studies in Byzantium', Oxford University Press.

1993– Committee for the British Academy project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire.

2001–7 Senior Fellows Committee, Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies

2006- La Pomme d’or Publishing

La Pomme d'or, 2007