Sergey Ivanov

Sergey Arkadievich Ivanov FBA (; born 5 October 1956) 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 (2022).

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 taught 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.

Starting in 2023, Ivanov taught at the Classics department, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

He also taught at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Saint Petersburg State University (2003–2015), and at the section of Byzantine literature, department of philology, Moscow State University (1996–2003). From 1979 to 2013 he served as a research associate in the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Some works In total Sergey Ivanov has over 200 scholarly publications (1981-2023).

Selected Books Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. - 479 pp. [2015 - Czech translation, 2005, 2009, 2019 - Russian original] 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.

Lectures and Papers

Byzantium as ‘East’ and as ‘West’ in the Russian Public Perception (Vienna, 28.06.2021) Anthony of Novgorod in Constantinople in 1200: A tour guide behind a pilgrim's report (The invited lecture at Koç University, Istanbul, 8.12.2021) Byzantium as Seen by the White Russians in Constantinople The invited lecture at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University (New York, 02.05.2022) Exploring the monuments of Byzantine Constantinople