Dimitar Georgiev Angelov

Dimiter Angelov (born 1972) is a Bulgarian-American Byzantinist and professor of history at Harvard University, where he is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History.

Biography Angelov was raised in Bulgaria and studied in the United States, earning his bachelor's degree from Wabash College, before attending Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in 2002. He became a professor at the University of Birmingham for ten years before joining the faculty at Harvard, where he became the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History.

His primary research focuses on Byzantine history and geography, and the role of the Byzantine Empire in the world. He is one of the leading experts on Theodore Laskaris, and is one of the first academics to translate Laskaris's writings. He has also written about the ritual importance of the Byzantine coronation, the Byzantine navy, and the Crusades.

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