User:Afeldman463

Hello.

Although I use it often as a reference and embarkation point for research, I'm relatively new to Wikipedia as an editor.

I am originally from the New York metropolitan area, but I've lived in Birmingham, UK since 2012.

I am a historian by training from the University of Birmingham. My area of specialty is in Byzantium, Rus', Southern, Central and Eastern Europe and the wider Eurasian world, roughly between the 7-17th centuries - mostly dealing with textual and archaeological materials such as ceramics, numismatics, epigraphy, sigillography, settlement archaeology, etc).

I strongly agree with Wikipedia's mission statement to help "to create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge" and I look forward to collaborating with other Wikipedians in the future to improve the accuracy and quality of the information contained in Wikipedia for the benefit of all.