Paweł Nowakowski is a historian and epigraphist of the late antique period. His research interests have been so far focused on the use of inscriptions as an instrument of the cult of saints and as evidence for the study of multilingualism in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. He completed his unified master’s degree programme in history at the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw in 2010.

From 2010 to 2015 he was a doctoral candidate at the Department of Papyrology of the Institute of Archaeology (UW), where he defended his dissertation in 2015. At that time, he was the PI of the research project “Epigraphic patterns applied in the cult of saints in late antique/early Byzantine Asia Minor” funded by a “Preludium” grant of the National Science Centre, Poland, a scholarship holder of the “Start” programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, and a pre-doctoral fellow of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung at the University of Cologne. This funding allowed him for short research stays in Germany (at the University of Cologne, and at Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut in Munich), and in Belgium (at the libraries of KU Leuven).

Between 2015 and 2018 he worked as a research associate (postdoc) at the University of Oxford, on the project “The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity” funded by an ERC-Advanced Grant, led by Bryan Ward-Perkins.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Warsaw, and PI of the Project “Epigraphy and Identity in the Early Byzantine Near East” (Sonata 15 grant, NCN, Poland, 2019/35/D/HS3/01872). In 2022, he was awarded an ERC Starting grant for the project “Masters of the stone: The stonecutters’ workshops and the rise of the late antique epigraphical cultures (third–fifth century AD)” (2022–2027).