Dimitris Krallis is a social, political and intellectual historian of the medieval Roman polity we call Byzantium. He was born in Athens where he lived during his childhood, teenage, and college years. At the University of Athens, he studied political theory, only to then move to Oxford (M.Phil) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D) where he specialized in Byzantine history. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University, where he teaches at the Department of Global Humanities and directs the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies. Over the past year or so he has turned to the Late Ottoman and Modern Greek eras, as he studies a rich family archive from the Island of Lesvos.