Warren Treadgold
American historian (born 1949)
Warren Templeton Treadgold (born April 30, 1949, Oxford, England) is an American historian and specialist in Byzantine studies. He is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University.
Education
Treadgold holds an A.B. from Harvard University (1970) and a Ph.D. from the same university (1977). He wrote his A.B. thesis on Arianism as a force in politics, 429–586 under the guidance of Angeliki Laiou and Caroline Walker Bynum. The advisors of his Ph.D. thesis on The nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius were Ihor Ševčenko and Herbert Bloch.
Academic career
He initially held a series of visiting lectureships and research fellowships: at the University of California, Los Angeles (1977–78), LMU Munich (1978–80), Stanford University (1980–82), and the Free University of Berlin (1982–83).
From 1983 to 1988, he was an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan. In 1988, he joined the Florida International University in Miami, where he was promoted to professor of history. He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1989 and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1996–1997. In 1997, he left Florida for Saint Louis University and has taught there since.
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