King’s College London
Ph.D. Byzantine Studies
King’s College London
M.A. Late Antique & Byzantine Studies
University of Bristol
M.A. Medieval Studies
Deree – The American College of Greece
B.A. History
Alicia Simpson has been a faculty member of the American College of Greece since 2018 and teaches courses in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval European History in the Department of Humanities. Prior to her current position, she taught at Koç University, Istanbul and held a Research Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) in Athens. Professor Simpson has been the recipient of several grants, including a Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC, a visiting fellowship in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Her research interests focus on Byzantine literature and culture, including their late antique and classical antecedents, gender studies, and Byzantium’s political and cultural relations with its neighboring states. As Assistant Director of IHCLA, she is the founder and co-organizer of the Institute’s Hellenic Studies Seminar Series (2024-present).
Niketas Choniates: A Historiographical Study (Oxford University Press, 2013)
“Justice and Injustice as viewed by the Byzantine Historians of the Eleventh and Twelfth Century,” Subseciva Groningana. Studies in Roman and Byzantine Law XII (2025), 75-98
“Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities?” in Y. Stouraitis (ed.), Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 250-67
‘The Reception of Cassius Dio’s Imperial Narrative in Byzantium’,” in C. Mallan and C. Davenport (eds.), Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 289-307
“Niketas Choniates’, in A. Mallett (ed.), Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Brepols, 2020), 93-123
“Byzantium and Hungary in the Late Twelfth Century: Personal Ties and Spheres of Influence”, in N. Chryssis, A. Kolia-Dermitzaki and A. Papageorgiou (eds.), Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality (Routledge, 2019), 192-205
(editor) Byzantium, 1180-1204: ‘The Sad Quarter of a Century’? (National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2015)
“The Propaganda Value of Imperial Patronage: Ecclesiastical Foundations and Charitable Establishments in the Late Twelfth Century,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 108/1 (2015), 179-206
(co-edited with S. Efthymiadis), Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer, eds. A. Simpson and S. Efthymiadis (Geneva, 2009)