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Jake Ransohoff
Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow (2022/2023)
jake_ransohoff@sfu.ca
Profile
Research interests
- Byzantine and Mediterranean History
- History of the Medieval Balkans
- Disability Studies
- Archaeology
- Reception Studies
Education
- PhD, Byzantine History, Harvard University
- BA, History with Honors, University of Chicago
- BA, Medieval Studies with Honors, University of Chicago
Biography
Jake Ransohoff is the 2022/2023 Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, 大象传媒. He holds a BA from the University of Chicago, and defended his PhD dissertation in History at Harvard University in June, 2022. His current research focuses on the intersection between power, political legitimacy, and attitudes toward the body in the Byzantine world鈥攅specially the disfigured and disabled body. He is editor (with Nathanael Aschenbrenner) of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe, published by Dumbarton Oaks Press in 2021, and co-editor of the forthcoming web resource 鈥淭he Justinianic Pandemic (541鈥揷. 750 CE): The Historical, Archaeological, Geospatial and Genetic Evidence.鈥
Publications
Journal articles and book chapters
- 鈥淭wo Approaches to Political Blinding in Byzantium.鈥 In Peter Sarris, ed.,Blood in Byzantium: Papers from the 52nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 2019. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
- 鈥淗ieronymus Wolf鈥檚 Silver Tongue: Early Byzantine Scholarship at the Intersection of Slavery, Colonialism, and the Crusades鈥 (with Nathanael Aschenbrenner). In Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanona, eds.,Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming.
- 鈥淏linding as Punishment and Politics in Byzantium.鈥滻n Clive Emsley and Sara McDougall, eds., A Global History of Crime and Punishment, vol. 2: Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age (800鈥1450). London and New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022.
- 鈥淚ntroduction: The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe鈥 (with Nathanael Aschenbrenner). In The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe, pp. 1鈥23.
- 鈥淏yzance avant Byzance: Toward a New History of Byzantine Scholarship鈥 (with Nathanael Aschenbrenner). In The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe, pp. 369鈥382.
- 鈥溾楥onsider the Future as Present:鈥 The Paranoid World of Kekaumenos.鈥 Speculum 93/1 (2018):pp. 77鈥91.
- 鈥淎n Empire 鈥楤etween Three Seas?鈥 Mapping Late Medieval Bulgaria at its Territorial Apogee,鈥 Balkanistica 30/2 (2017):pp. 233鈥255.
- 鈥淎ll the Tsar鈥檚 Men: Reflections on Power and Society in Asenid Bulgaria (1257鈥1393).鈥 In Maximilian Lau et al.,eds.,Landscapes of Power: Selected Papers from the XVthOxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference, pp. 253鈥273.Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies 10.Berlin: Peter Lang, 2014.
- 鈥淚van S虒is虒man and the Ottoman Conquest of Bulgaria (1371鈥1395):A Reconsideration.鈥 Palaeobulgarica 37/1(2013): pp. 89鈥100.
- 鈥淭he Relationship Between Land and Power in Terterid Bulgaria: a Comparative Study of the Appanages of Eltimir and Smilets.鈥 Palaeobulgarica 35/2 (2011): pp. 37鈥47.
Select conference presentations
- 鈥淭he Mass-Blinding of Prisoners of War in Byzantium." presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Symposium 'On Being Conquered,' on April 16, 2021.
- "To See and Be Seen: Changing Venues of Byzantine Blinding." Presented at the 52nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies on 'Blood in Byzantium,' Cambridge University, on 30 March 2019.
Select awards
- 2020, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
- 2017-2019, William R. Tyler Research Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks
- 2012-2013, Fulbright Research Fellowship (North Macedonia), Institute of International Education