Job summary
Dimitri serves as liaison to the Global Studies program, the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, and the Department of Classics. In this role, he provides communication and outreach, research support, and instructional services to faculty and students. His ability to provide these services is facilitated by a long academic career, through which he has gained extensive experience in research, teaching, and academic publishing. He is still an active researcher in premodern and Middle Eastern history, which gives him something in common with the faculty and students he supports.
Professional profile
Dimitri holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and a B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Before joining the UVA Library, he was Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, U.K.) He is the author and editor of a number of books, journal articles, and book chapters. He has also held several research fellowships (Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in Byzantine Studies; British Academy Mid-Career fellowship; membership at the Institute for Advanced Study). He is currently working on a book about Ottoman ideas of history in the mid-fifteenth century.