Douglas Whalin late antique historian

Education

2016 PhD in History, Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
Title: Roman Identity in Byzantium, AD 650-850.
Supervisor: Dr Peter Sarris.
2012 MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, St. Cross College, Univrsity of Oxford.
2007 BA double-major in English and History, Lawrence University.

Academic Appointments

2026—2028 Potdoctoral Research Assosciate, Unviersity of Cologne.
2021—2024 Visiting Professor, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University (Changchun, China).
2020—2022 Research Fellow, Institute for Christian Oritneal Research (ICOR), Catholic University of America.
2017—2020 Adjunct Professor, George Mason University.
2013—2016 Supervisor and Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Cambridge.

Select Awards

2026—2028 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (Horizon-MSCA) Project "The Prosopography of the Imperial Church of the Empire of the Romans in Antioch during the time of Nikon of the Black Mountain, circa AD 950-1100" (PICERAN). Project ID 101208459. Funded by the European Union. Awarded in 2025. Start delayed due to parental leave. Project hosted by the Unviersity of Cologne from April 2026 through March 2028.
Winter 2022—2023 Junior Research Fellowship, Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne.
2021 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Armenian Summer Fellowship.
Spring 2020 Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," University of Tübingen.
2019 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Coptic Summer Fellowship.
2012—2016 Research and Travel Grants, Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
2013, 2014 CRASSH Seminar Grants, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge.
2007 Herman Erb Prize in German, Lawrence University.
2003—2007 Dean's List Scholarship, Lawrence University.