Biography:
I gained a BA, MPhil, and PhD in Classics from Cambridge before moving to Oxford as a JRF in History at Trinity College in 2008. In 2011 I returned to Cambridge as a Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellow and Fellow in Classics at Churchill College, before returning to Oxford in 2012 as the A.G. Leventis Lecturer, then Associate Professor, in Eastern Christianity (split 50/50 between the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Theology and Religion). I moved from Trinity to St Peter’s College, where I am a Research Fellow and Lecturer, in 2018. I was awarded the title of Full Professor in 2026.
Research Area(s):
History of Christianity
Research Interests:
Ecclesiastical History, in particular the history of eastern Christianities in the eastern Roman empire, the Sasanian empire, and the caliphate in the fourth to tenth centuries.
Research Centres:
I am the Director of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (https://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/home) and sit on the organising committee of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (https://www.ocbr.ox.ac.uk)
Editorships:
I am one of three General Editors of Translated Texts for Historians (LUP: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-series/translated-texts-for-historians). I also sit on the editorial boards of the monograph series Oxford Studies in Byzantium (OUP), Millennium-Studien (De Gruyter), and Brill Research Perspectives in Byzantine Studies (Brill); and on those for the journals Millennium-Jahrbuch (De Gruyter) and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (CUP).
Links:
https://oxford.academia.edu/PhilBooth
https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-phil-booth
