Dr. Georgy Kantor

Biography

Georgy Kantor is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at St John's College, University of Oxford. He has an academic background that includes studying at Russian State University Humanities, Moscow, and earning his MPhil and DPhil at Oxford. His research focuses on Roman legal institutional history, particularly in the eastern provinces, and includes a strong emphasis on epigraphy in the Roman world, covering both Latin and Greek texts. He has prepared a monograph on Roman law in Asia Minor, which is somewhat based on his doctoral thesis, and has published on various topics including Greek law in the context of Roman legislation. Kantor serves as an associate editor for Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, focusing on the Black Sea and Danubian regions, and is a member of the editorial board for the journal Vestnik drevnej istorii. He also teaches undergraduate tutorials in Roman and Greek history and supervises DPhil and Master’s students engaged in studies of Roman law institutions and the social history of Greek cities under Roman rule.

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