Hyun Jin was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. He took his D Phil.
from the University of Oxford on a Commonwealth Scholarship in 2008 and then was a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellow until he took up his current position at the University of Melbourne in 2013. He is widely published and the author or editor of seven books. Many of his books, including his first monograph Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China (2009; Duckworth), are comparative studies of Ancient Greece, Rome and China. His other monographs, most notably The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (2013; Cambridge University Press), and edited books are studies of the Inner Asian Huns, Geopolitics and Eurasian Empires in Late Antiquity.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Associate Professor In Classics
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Languages and Literature
University of Oxford
Master of Arts in Languages and Literature
University of Auckland
Bachelor of Arts in Classics
University of Auckland