Biography
Magdalino was educated at the University of Oxford (BA 1970, DPhil 1976). He has worked as a lecturer and reader in mediaeval history at the University of St Andrews (1977–1999), where he became Professor of Byzantine History (1999–2002) and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History (2002–2009, later Emeritus), and as a professor of Byzantine history at Koç University, Istanbul (2006–2008, 2010–2014).[2][4]
He is a fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Early Christian Humanism, Catholic University of America, the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium at Frankfurt and Munich, and the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University. He is Directeur d'études invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Directeur d’études invité, École pratique des Hautes Études, section des sciences religieuses.[4]
He was a visiting professor of history at Harvard University in 1995–1996 and a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2001–2007.[2] In 2002 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.[5]
Magdalino is a member of several editorial boards and research committees: 'The Medieval Mediterranean' at Brill monograph series; 'Oxford Studies in Byzantium' at Oxford University Press; Committee for the British Academy project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire; Senior Fellows Committee at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; La Pomme d’Or Publishing; Byzantinische Zeitschrift journal.[6]
His research interests include Byzantine history: the society, culture and economy of the Byzantine world from 6th to 13th centuries; the city of Constantinople; prophecy, scientific thought, the formation of Byzantine religious Orthodoxy.[7]
