Michail Kitsos is a historian specializing in Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Byzantine Period in the Eastern Mediterranean. They are currently the Koret Postdoctoral Fellow at The Koret Center for Jewish Civilization and the Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.
About
My research crosses regions, languages, cultures, and religions and focuses on the entangled histories of Judaism and Christianity.
Research
My publications pertain to social, intellectual, and cultural history of Jews and Christians, focusing on marginality, identity formation, polemics, and literary production of Jewish and Christian knowledge.
Publications
Presentations
My presentations constitute work in progress, proffering preliminary insights on topics grounded in Byzantine Jewish and Christian perceptions of each other, broadly conceived.
I teach courses onpremodern Judaism, premodern Christianity, and comparative religion, investigating matters of identity formation, minority grouping, Othering, and literary narrative.
Teaching
I am passionate about working to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) both inside and outside the classroom.
