UW Classics Department to welcome Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
Mon. Jul. 15, 2024
![Dr. Lucas McMahon](../../../images/faculty-staff/lucas-mcmahon-postdoc-sm.jpg)
An incoming postdoctoral fellow with a PhD from Princeton University will embark on a two-year research project funded by a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Lucas McMahon is a medievalist who specializes in Byzantium, the eastern Roman Empire in the Middle Ages.
Dr. McMahon will receive $140,000 over two years to pursue a book-length research project, Information and Empire in New Rome. He will be supervised by Dr. Conor Whately, Professor in the Department of Classics.