Ewan Short was originally trained as a historian at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Thereafter he completed a MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies in the Welsh capital Cardiff in the United Kindom. His Arts and Humanities Council funded PhD project on the Byzantine Empress Aikaterine was also completed in Cardiff in 2022. 

Ewan's research interests include women's history within Byzantine and Sassanian Persian Studies, and the history of the built environment in Istanbul. He is currently working on a forthcoming monograph on Aikaterine, to be published with Liverpool University Press. 

2022

• Short, E. (2022). Voorbij Eurocentrisme. Ancient History aan de Universiteit van Cardiff. In E. Huig, I. Kuin & M. Liebregts (Eds.), De huid van Cleopatra: Etniciteit en diversiteit in oudheidstudies, (pp. 250-263). Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren.

2021

• Short, E. (2021). Maria, Monomachos and the Mangana: Imperial Legitimacy (1042-1046). Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 6, 9-54.
• Short E. (2021). The Role of Sichelgaita in Marriage Negotiations between South Italy and Byzantium (c.1071-1074). Women’s History Today, 3 (1), 24-32.
• Short, E. & MacDonald, E. (2021). Shirin in Context: The Wives of Khosrow Parvez. In K. Droß-Krüpe & S. Fink (Eds.), (Self-)Presentation and Perception of Powerful Women in the Ancient World, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the Melammu Project, University of Kassel, 30 January-1 February 2019, (pp. 475-498). Münster: Zaphon.

2020

• Short, E. & Huig, E. (2020). Feasting and Reading: Some Suggestions on Approaching Banquet Scenes in Rhodanthe and Dosikles. SHARE: Studies In History, Archaeology, Religion And Conservation, 4 (1), 1–25.
• Short, E. (2019). The Agency and Authority of Agnes of France and Margaret of Hungary in the Aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople (1204-1206). Question Journal, 3, 28-37.
• Short, E. (2019). The Socioemotional Labour Performed by Women in the Medieval Byzantine Oikos (1000 – 1118). Gendered Voices 4, 18-23.