Peter Frankopan#
| Membership Number: | 6804 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.peterfrankopan.com |
| Twitter: | @peterfrankopan |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Professor of Silk Roads Studies, King’s College, Cambridge
- 2000 Associate Director, Silk Roads Studies Programme, King’s College, Cambridge
- 2017 Professor of Global History, Worcester College, Oxford
- 2017 Scaliger Visiting Professor, University of Leiden
- 2010 Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford University
- 2002 - 2003 Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies, Princeton
- 2000 Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Silk Roads Studies
- Russia and the former Soviet Union
- Histories of China
- Central Asia
- Urbanization & nomadism
- Middle Eastern affairs
- Byzantine empire
- Climate change & the natural world
Honours and Awards
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society
- Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
- Fellow, Royal Geographic Society
- Winner: Calliope Prize; Social Sciences Prize of the Carical Foundation; The Classical Association Prize
- President, Royal Society of Asian Affairs
