Joe Glynias is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Yale University in 2025. He works at the intersection of Islamic, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian history in the late antique and medieval eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. He studies agents of the cultural transmission of texts and ideas and the historical moments in which these actions occurred. 

He is currently developing two books: the first book, contracted with Princeton University Press, considers the massive translation movement of Greek Christian texts into Syriac and Arabic undertaken in Byzantine Antioch in the 10th and 11^th centuries. His second book project considers the translation from Arabic to Greek of the Arabic science that had developed out of the Greco-Arabic translation movement of Baghdad

Joe's work has been supported by a number of fellowships including a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks and a Dodds Fellowship at Princeton. He has published on a wide range of topics including Byzantine monasticism, Greco-Arabic translation, Arabo-Greek astrology, Syriac manuscripts, Byzantine sigillography, and Islamic coinage.