Florin Curta
Office: 202 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 273-3367
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: fcurta@history.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/fcurta/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Research interests: Carolingian Europe, medieval Eastern
Europe, Byzantium, archaeology, medievalism
Florin Curta researches the written and archaeological evidence of medieval history on the European continent. His recent studies dealt with such diverse topics as the Byzantine administration in the Balkans during the early Middle Ages; Merovingian and Carolingian gift-giving; Christianity and barbarians beyond the sixth- and seventh-century Danube frontier of the early Byzantine Empire; ethnic stereotypes and ethnicism in Suger’s Deeds of Louis the Fat; and medievalist themes in Romanian rock music. Ethnicity is a major theme of his first book entitled The Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, A.D. 500-700,which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 2003. His second book, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, addresses important themes such as the rise of medieval states, the conversion to Christianity, the monastic movement inspired by developments in Western Europe, and in Byzantium, and the role of material culture (architecture, the arts, and objects of daily life) in the representation of power. Curta edited two collections of studies, Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis. Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages. He has also published extensively in such journals as Speculum, Early Medieval Europe, Viator, Haskins Society Journal, and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the Brill series East Central Europe in the Middle Ages and a member of the Medieval Academy of America Publication Advisory Board. Professor Curta is the recent recipient of a NEH fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens; a senior fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks; membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, in Princeton; and an American Council of Learned Societies postdoctoral fellowship in East European Studies.
