Luca Zavagno

Luca Zavagno graduated from the University of Venice (2002); he obtained his Ph.D. (2007) at the University of Birmingham with a dissertation on the society, economics and politics of Byzantine cities in the Early Middle Ages. He is Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies in the Department of History at Bilkent University, where he has recently completed his third monograph entitled The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610-1204: Urban Life after Antiquity (published by Palgrave-Byzantine Studies Series) and he is currently working on the Routledge Companion to the Byzantine City (a volume co-edited with Nikolas Bakirtzis to appear in 2022).

Dr. Zavagno is also the co-organizer of the Byzantium in Ankara-Seminar Series, Associate Scholar of the Mediterranean Seminar, member of the Princeton University FLAME Project (Framing early Medieval Coinage) and former Visiting professor in Byzantine Art History at the University of Venice.

Research Interests

Byzantine urbanism, Late Antique History and Archaeology, History and Archaeology of Medieval Mediterranean, Insular Studies

E-Mail

luca.zavagnobilkent.edu.tr

Office Location

H Building 133A
A Building 329

Phone

+90 312 290 2759
+90 312 290 2637

Bilkent University Main Campus
FHL Building Room H-149
06800 Bilkent -- Ankara, TURKEY
PHONE: +90-312-290-1934
FAX: +90-312-290-1075
EMAIL: tezgorbilkent.edu.tr