Sergey Ivanov (Russian historian)

Sergey Arkadievich Ivanov FBA is a Russian Historian and Byzantinist, expert in the Middle Ages culture. Sergey Ivanov is professor at the Higher School of Economics. He is best known as the author of the books Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond and In Search of Constantinople.
Ivanov is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
In 2012 Ivanov was awarded the Enlightener Prize, nomination "Humanities".

Career

Sergey Ivanov was trained as classicist in Moscow State University.
Ivanov teaches at the Higher School of Economics since 2013; since 2020 he is the chair of the department of ancient history and Byzantium at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of this university.
In 2023 Ivanov taught at Classics department, Northwestern University.
He also taught at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Saint Petersburg State University, and at the section of Byzantine literature, department of philology, Moscow State University. From 1979 to 2013 he served as a research associate in the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In total Sergey Ivanov has over 200 scholarly publications.

Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. - 479 pp.
In Search of Constantinople. A Guidebook through Byzantine Istanbul and Its Surroundings. Istanbul, “Kitapyaynevi”, 2021. – 568 pp. . Moscow, YaSK, 2020. – 536 pp.
Pearls Before Swine: Missionary Work in Byzantium. Paris, “Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance”, 2015. – 272 pp.

The Saint// Cambridge History of Russian Literature/ Eds. S.Franklin, E., Widdis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Slavic, in: The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021, P. 662-681
The Second Rome as seen by the Third: Russian debates on "the Byzantine legacy", in: The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500. Ashgate Publishing, 2016, р.55-80.
Religious Missions// Cambridge History of Byzantium, ed. J. Shepard. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 305-332
The Slavonic Life of Saint Stefan of Surozh// La Criméе entre Byzance et le Khaganate khazar/ ed. C. Zuckerman. Paris, Collège de France, 2006, 109-167
Eupraxia of Olympos, an Unknown Transvestite Saint// Analecta Bollandiana, 2008, vol.126, n 1, 31–47.