Arkadiy Avdokhin

Dr Arkadiy Avdokhin has recently defended his doctoral thesis at King's College London and joined HSE as a Postdoctoral fellow. He is teaching seminars in late antiquity and Byzantium.

Originally trained as a classicist at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Arkadiy went on to do his PhD at King's, where he also gained experience in undergraduate teaching. He was also an active participant of late antique and Byzantine seminars at the University of Oxford in 2013-15

Dr Avdokhin is a scholar with wide-ranging interests in how texts work in late antiquity and early Byzantium (4^rd–7^th cc. AD) as means of communicating religious and social discourses. His academic interests span from devotional poetry to inscribed imperial edicts put up in city spaces, as these all are various manifestations of textuality and how it functions in this period.

Arkadiy's thesis examined Athanasius of Alexandria’s thought and writings in the context of ecclesial, ascetic, and liturgical developments in fourth-century Christian communities in Egypt. Currently he is working on a research project on early Byzantine imperial epigraphy while continuint his research into early Christian prayers and hymns