Greg Fisher
Associate Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Greg Fisher earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he studied under the supervision of Averil Cameron. He is the author of Between Empires. Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2011), which examines the political and cultural background to Islam. His research interests focus on the Middle East in late antiquity (AD 200-800), particularly on the political impact of the Roman and Sasanian Iranian empires in the region. He is a member of the Ancient Borderlands Multi-Campus Research Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which is engaged in the comparative study of ancient boundaries, borders, and frontiers. He has researched and worked in Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia, has written about Roman ruins in Syria for Lonely Planet, and is writing a history of the Roman world for Routledge, Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Mohammed.
Research Interest
History of the Middle East Roman History Parthian and Sasanian Iran Comparative History Ancient Borderlands
Publications
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with G. Bevan and D. Genequand, ‘The late antique church at Tall al-‘Umayrī East. New evidence for the Jafnid family and the cult of St. Sergius in northern Jordan’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, forthcoming.
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‘Emperors, politics, and the plague’, in D. Genequand and C.J. Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides, des rois arabes au service de Byzance (VIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne), in press with De Boccard (2014).
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‘State and tribe in late antique Arabia: a comparative view’, in J. Dijkstra and G. Fisher (eds.), Inside and Out: Interactions Between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity, in press with Peeters (2014).
