Dr. Pawlowski explores daily life and agency in the countryside of Medieval Byzantium through the syncretic study of archaeology, art, and architecture with the written record. His work examines both the social and economic differentiation amongst rural villagers and their agency as evidenced through physical remains. He is interested in how the more humble residents of Byzantium were able to not only affect their immediate environment, but how they were able to impact the social and political structures of the Byzantine Empire in general.
Dr. Pawlowski received his PhD in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. Prior to coming to the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Pawlowski taught in the History Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has received several significant fellowships including a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks during the completion of his PhD and most recently the Byzantine Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame which provided the resources necessary for the completion of his first monograph. Tentatively entitled Village and Villager: Housing and Space in Byzantium, this book explores domestic architecture in the Byzantine Empire and evidence for villager agency in the countryside. Dr. Pawlowski has published in the Journal of Greek Archaeology and has a forthcoming chapter in an edited volume published by Routledge.
