Nick is an early medieval historian specialising in the Caucasus and the Eurasian steppe. Nick is an Associate Researcher in the History Faculty. His education was at the University of Oxford (DPhil in History, 2016). He has held research posts at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Clare College, Cambridge, and teaching posts at King’s College London, the University of Leeds, and Birkbeck, University of London.
Nick is a researcher on the Ukrainian History Global Initiative (UHGI, https://uhgi.org/). The UHGI aims to offer Ukrainian and global publics a decolonised, long-term history of the territories that today form Ukraine. Nick’s focus within the project will be on the nomadic empire of the Khazars, which dominated those territories in the early middle ages. This builds on his previously published work and his monograph on the early medieval North Caucasus, currently under review with Oxford University Press.
While at King’s, Nick will be bringing his work on medieval steppe societies into dialogue with the work of the King’s Silk Roads Project. He will also be developing his parallel project on medieval economic anthropology, which uses medieval descriptions of other societies’ economic practices as sources for the wider history of economic thought.
