Mikhail Kizilov

He studied history at the Simferopol State University, Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest and Jewish and Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford (2004-2007). From 2007, Kizilov holds a DPhil (PhD) in modern history from Oxford University (United Kingdom) with his dissertation The Karaites, a religious and linguistic minority in eastern Galicia (Ukraine) 1772-1945. His doctoral advisor was R. J. W. Evans.

Kizilov was a visiting scholar at the Simon Dubnow Institute in the winter semester from 2002 to 2003. His research interests include Karaite Studies, Jewish history in Eastern Europe, Holocaust, Roma studies, various aspects of Crimean history, Khazars, Krymchaks, Crimean Tatars, Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), the history of slavery in the Ottoman Crimea and Crimean Khanate, Mangup and Chufut-Kale, Roma (Gypsy) community of the Crimea, Karaim language, literature of the Crimean Jews in Turkic languages, and more.

Between 2000 and 2022 he published six academic and four popular monographs and also over a hundred articles in the English, Russian, German, Polish and Ukrainian languages. Some of his studies were translated into French, Hebrew and Turkish. In his studies Kizilov uses sources and scholarship in about twenty modern and dead languages, including Slavic, European and Oriental languages.

Mikhail Kizilov (Ukrainian: Михаил Борисович Кизилов; born on 27 June 1974 in Simferopol). He works on the history of Crimea in the Late Middle Ages and Modern Times and on Jews, Khazars and Karaism in Eastern Europe, especially in Crimea, Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania.