Warren Treadgold (AB, Harvard University, 1970; PhD, Harvard University, 1977) is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University. His interest in the political, economic, military, social, and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire extends to the Byzantine historians themselves. Professor Treadgold has also taught at UCLA, Stanford, Hillsdale College, UC Berkeley, and Florida International University
In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Treadgold has written The Early Byzantine Historians (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); A Concise History of Byzantium (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001); A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997); Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995); The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988); The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (New York: East European Monographs, 1982); and The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980).