Administrative Experience

Roles/Duties

  • November 2022 – Present: PGR Representative (SHARE: School of History, Archaeology, and Religion), Cardiff University
  • November 2021 – Present: C.L.A.M.E.R Seminar Series Co-organiser [Colleagues – Ben Morris and Teifion Gambold] – (Cardiff Late Antique and Medieval Early Researcher)
  • March 2021 – Present: Graduate Associate – Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
  • May 2020 – January 2022; June 2022 – Present: Committee Member of the South-West and Wales Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine Network (SWW-LAEMB Network)
  • April 2020-Present: IMC Leeds ‘Roman and Sasanian Panel Strand Co-Organiser w/Domiziana Rossi (2021 CfP: Climate; 2022 CfP: Borders; 2023 CfP: Networks and Entanglements; 2024 CfP: Crisis)
  • September 2015- July 2017: Course Representative for the BA in Ancient and Medieval History – UWTSD Lampeter

Outreach/Extra-Curricular

  • Guest Interviewee: (March 2021) The Iranian Studies Collective – Researcher Profile: Sean Strong, Cardiff University (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRRN8nWZGY)
  • Blog and Content Creator: (July 2020 – Present) – ByzRoma1453: A History of Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Content Contributor to Epigeum’s (Oxford University Press) Supervising Doctoral Studies – 2nd Edition
  • Podcast Guest Speaker: (March 2019) Antiquity in Question – Episode Six: The Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia – Were they Natural Rivals? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVDOye0NUCE&t=1475s)

Editing

  • Select Editor for Diogenes. 11 (May 2021) – Online Student-led Academic Journal for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Birmingham University)

Knowledge and Research Training

  • Autumn 2022 – EX-PATRIA Project Autumn School: ad limina Orientis: Oriental Christianities on the Silk Roads during the Long Late Antiquity – Languages, Texts, Objects, Images
  • Oct-Dec 2020: HS3386 Persian Superpowers: A Dynastic History of Ancient Iran, 1000 BCE to 1000 CE, Cardiff University [Audited]
  • Summer 2019: International Byzantine Greek Summer School, Trinity College Dublin (Grade – 2:1)
  • Oct-Dec 2018: Byzantium and its Neighbours, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education [Accredited]

Event Organisation

  • [Forthcoming] Organiser of Workshop titled – ‘East Rome and Sasanian Iran: Conflict and Diplomacy in Late Antiquity’ [2025].
  • [Forthcoming] Co-organiser (w/Clare Parry and Ana Garcia-Espinosa) of C.C.C (Celtic Conference in Classics) 2024 Strand: ‘Near Eastern and Classical Conceptions of Dynasty and Rulership’, Cardiff University.
  • [Forthcoming] Co-organiser (w/Domiziana Rossi) of IMC 2024 Strand: “Crisis, Resilience, and Transformation: The Roman and Sasanian Empires in Late Antiquity” – Four Panels [Funded Appl. w/ BIPS].
  • [Forthcoming] Committee Organiser for A.M.P.A.H (Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Students in Ancient History). Theme: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Power, and Place.’ April 2024. Keynote Speaker: tbc
  • Co-organiser (w/Domiziana Rossi) of IMC 2023 Strand: “The Roman and Sasanian Empires: Networks and Entanglements in the Late Antique Near East” – Four Panels [Funded by BIPS].
  • Co-organiser (w/Domiziana Rossi) of IMC 2022 Strand: “Empires without Borders: Collaboration and Rivalry between the Roman and Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity” – Four Panels.
  • Committee Organiser (SWW-LAEMB Network) of IMC 2022 Strand: “Borders in Late Antique, Islamic, Early Medieval, and Byzantine Worlds, 300-1200 CE” – Six Panels.
  • Committee Organiser for UWICAH (Universities of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History) 2021 – Theme: Communication and Interaction in the Ancient World and its Study, 19th – 20th November 2021. Keynote Speaker: Dr Tiffany Treadway, Cardiff University.
  • Co-organiser (w/Domiziana Rossi) of IMC 2021 Strand: “Byzantium and Sasanian Persia: The Climate of the Near East in Late Antiquity” – Four Panels [Funded via BIPS].
  • Lead Committee Organiser for the SWW-LAEMB Network Summer Colloquium – CfP: ‘Connectivity and Networks’, Thursday 3rd June 2021. Keynote Speaker: Dr Byron Waldron, University of Sydney
  • Lead Committee Organiser for the SWW-LAEMB Network Autumn Event: “The Transmission of Knowledge in Late Antique Iran” Friday 27th November 2020. Speakers: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Dr Eve MacDonald
  • Committee Organiser for the 20th Annual International Byzantine Conference, University of Oxford – ‘Space and Dimension in Late Antiquity and Byzantium’ Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th February 2018.