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Rate My Professor Sylvain Destephen

Université de Caen Basse Normandie

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5.05/4/2026

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Sylvain Destephen is Professor of Roman History in the History faculty at Université de Caen Normandie, where he serves as a member of the Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM). Born in 1972, he studied history at the Sorbonne, obtaining Master's degrees in Byzantine history and Greek epigraphy. He earned his PhD in historical and philological sciences from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 2004, with a thesis titled Le clergé des provinces du diocèse d'Asie (IVe-VIIe siècle): étude de prosopographie, directed by Denis Feissel. Destephen began his academic career as Maître de conférences in Roman history at Université Paris Nanterre (formerly Paris 10). In 2015, he defended his habilitation at the Sorbonne on the history of imperial journeys from the 4th to the 7th century. He received the Charles Diehl Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2010 for his prosopography of western Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and was elected junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2012. He held a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2024.

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