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I was an engineer before travelling around the world for two years, falling out of a coconut tree and then retraining as an academic. With a wife and two small children, my life is now a little bit more sedentary and I rarely stray off terra firma. Many years of wandering have thankfully and rather amazingly brought me back to my home town and the ability to see United at Old Trafford, socialise with old friends, see gigs in this amazing city of ours, and set up an amateur boxing club just twenty minutes from home. Otherwise, I'm often seen either riding a bike, paddling a kayak or poking a fire.
When I first considered becoming a historian, I did so for the high-minded notion that studying history was an end in of itself. What a wonderful thing it would be, I thought, to honour the great moments in history and monuments in culture by studying them for their own value. And I was right. Since then, I’ve taught at universities in Scotland, Ireland, Turkey and now Man Met. As a result, I have become increasingly appreciative of the practical and vocational utility of studying history. In my seminars, workshops and lectures, students are trained in a range of transferable skills that are increasingly sought after in today’s information-based economy.
Be prepared to have your assumptions challenged through the use of critical thinking. It is a key transferable skill you acquire and improve as a History student. If you’re open to new ideas and ready to have your preconceptions about history challenged, then your B.A. in History will be worth considerably more than just a degree in Higher Education.
My approach to teaching has been described as passionate, enthusiastic and engaging.
I often have the pleasure of giving ‘taster’ lectures on the university’s open days. I begin every lecture by reminding the audience that what we know of the past changes constantly. I want students to appreciate that history is dynamic, and that our understanding of the past shapes our interpretation of the present. I want students to question the world around them by challenging their prejudgments about the past.
Ph.D. in Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, UK
2010/11: Assistant Professor in European History, Fatih University (Istanbul)
2009/10: Lecturer in Medieval History, National University of Ireland (Galway)
2008/09: Associate Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Aberdeen
2002-08: Associate Lecturer in Medieval History, University of St Andrews
Unit Leader: '“The Clash of Civilisations”: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World': Level 5 undergraduate module
Unit Leader: ‘The Crusades, 1095 – 1291’: Level 6 undergraduate module
Unit Leader: Byzantium and the West, c.800 – 1261: Level 6 undergraduate module
I also contribute to other undergraduate units, including "Global History: Empires, Migration and Cultural Encounters" (Level 4) and "History in Focus" (Level 4).
Unit Leader: 'The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom, 1145-49': Level 7 postgraduate module
PhD: Luke Quinn, “Mongol Ideology and Inter-Cultural Contact with the Latin World"
I am able to offer postgraduate supervision (MA or PhD) in the following subject areas:
Frankish Outremer and the Crusades
Expansion of Latin Christendom
Byzantine – Latin relations
My research interests lie in the history of the crusades and the so-called ‘Crusader States’. I’m also interested in the Byzantine Empire’s relationships with the Latin world.
Jason T. Roche & Janus Møller Jensen, (ed.) The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom (Brepols 2015)
Jason T. Roche, (ed.) 'The Modern Appropriation of the Crusades' (special issue), International Journal of Military History and Historiography 41 (2021)
My main contribution to the special issue, entitled ‘Crusaders and their Role in the Islamic State Apocalypse’, builds on research presented at the Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Symposium in 2018 on 'The Modern Appropriation of the Crusades' and the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2018. The special issue provides a showcase for the Northern Network and the Manchester Metropolitan's History Research Centre’s ‘War, Conflict and Society’ research cluster, four of whose members contribute to the issue.
I created the collaborative and multi-institutional Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades as the first stage in my ambitious plan to give Man Met a leading role in northern England in the development of research and postgraduate study on the crusades and all related fields of enquiry. The Steering Committee consists of leaders in the respective fields from Man Met, the universities of Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool and York, Nottingham Trent University and Lancaster University. Following the principles set out at the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee, hosting the annual symposium rotates on a bi-annual basis at the home institutions of the Committee Members. In this manner, ownership of the symposium is shared amongst the Committee Members while Man Met remains the home of the Network and I remain its lead. I am thus able to advise colleagues hosting the symposia, and importantly, safeguard the founding principles of the Network in supporting the development of PGRs and ECRs.
I am lead on the cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional project entitled ‘Locating the Battle of Dorylaion (1097): New Methods, New Discoveries’. The project brings together my expertise in medieval history and the expertise of Prof. Vincent Gaffney, a computer archaeologist at the University of Bradford, and Dr Refik Arikan and Prof Nurfeddin Kahraman, an historian and geographist respectively at Bilecik University, Turkey. A successful application to The Royal Society Newton Mobility Grant would result in plans for the further multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary project provisionally entitled ‘Modelling the Movement of the First Crusade: from ‘Dorylaion to Ikonion’.
J. Roche (2021). International Journal of Military History and Historiography: Special Issue: “The Appropriation and Weaponisation of the Crusades in the Modern Era”, guest editor, Jason T. Roche, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2021).
JT. Roche (2021). The Appropriation and Weaponisation of the Crusades in the Modern Era. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. 41(2), pp.187-207.
JT. Roche (2021). "Crusaders" and the Islamic State Apocalypse. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. 41(2), pp.308-342.
JT. Roche (2019). The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146 - 1149. Brepols.
JT. Roche (2015). The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom. JT. Roche. Brepols.
JT. Roche (2019). The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146 - 1149. Brepols.
JT. Roche (2015). The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom. JT. Roche. Brepols.
JT. Roche (2021). The Appropriation and Weaponisation of the Crusades in the Modern Era. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. 41(2), pp.187-207.
JT. Roche (2021). "Crusaders" and the Islamic State Apocalypse. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. 41(2), pp.308-342.
JT. Roche (2015). The Second Crusade, 1145–49: Damascus, Lisbon and the Wendish Campaigns. History Compass. 13(11), pp.599-609.
JT. Roche (2010). Surveying the Aspect of the Medieval West Anatolian Town. Al-Masāq. 22(3), pp.249-257.
JT. ROCHE (2009). In the Wake of Mantzikert: The First Crusade and the Alexian Reconquest of Western Anatolia. History. 94(314), pp.135-153.
JT. Roche (2006). ‘Conrad III and the Second Crusade: Retreat from Dorylaion?’. Crusades. 5, pp.85-97.
J. Roche (2021). International Journal of Military History and Historiography: Special Issue: “The Appropriation and Weaponisation of the Crusades in the Modern Era”, guest editor, Jason T. Roche, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2021).
“Modelling the Movement of the First Crusade: From Nikaia to the ‘Battle of Dorylaion’ (1097)”; Society for the Medieval Mediterranean 6th Biannual Conference, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, July 2019
“Roads, Bridges and Modelling the Movement of the First Crusade”, Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond – International Workshop, University of Vienna; November 2018
“Islamic State and the Appropriation of the Crusades”; International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2018
“Islamic State and the Creation of a ‘Crusader’ Narrative”; Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Second Annual Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2018
“Experiencing the First Crusade, 1095-1099”, Bilecik University, Turkey, December 2017
“The Türkmen and the Crusades in Anatolia”, Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Inaugural Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2017
“The Crusades in the Balkans: Dearth amidst Plenty”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2016
“The Anatolian Turks and the Second Crusade”, Third Seljuk Culture and Civilisation Symposium: Seljuks and Crusaders, Seljuk University (Turkey), April 2016
“Tactics and the Second Crusade in Anatolia”, First International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea, Fatih University (Istanbul), June 2015
“When the Staufer met the Komnenoi: Imperial Relations on the Second Crusade”, International Medieval Congress, July 2014
“The Staufen-Comnenian Alliance, c. 1140-1152”, International Medieval Congress, July 2013
“Komnenoi, Hohenstaufen, and the Geopolitics of the Medieval Mediterranean” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, U.S., May 2013
‘Roger II and the Second Crusade’, Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2012
‘“War and victory eluded their grasp”: the supposed indiscipline of the Second Crusaders in Anatolia’, Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Conference, Cáceres, Spain, June 2012
‘Poverty and disorder on the Second Crusade’, International Medieval Congress, July 2011
‘Constantinople before Çelebi’s Istanbul: the views of western travellers’, Symposium in honour of the 400th anniversary of the Evliya Çelebi, Fatih University (Istanbul), March 2011
‘Crusading armies and their violence across medieval frontiers’; Medieval Frontiers at War Conference at the University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, November 2010
‘Medieval military demography: problems and potential solutions’; International Medieval Congress, July 2010
De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem and the conventional notion that “Alemanni praecedentes
omnia perturbant”: a calculated subplot of Odo of Deuil’s Second Crusade narrative?’; Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Conference, Avignon, August 2008
‘The logistical predicaments of Conrad III during his advance towards Ikonion, 1147’; International Medieval Congress, July 2008
‘Volatility in Western Anatolia: the geopolitical landscape between the Byzantines and Seljuks during the High Middle Ages’; Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, April 2008
‘Reconstructing the medieval Anatolian town: an interdisciplinary approach’; International Medieval Congress, July 2007
‘The Byzantine notion of the Latin barbarian’; Medieval Images of the Other in Scandinavia, Western Europe and Byzantium Conference, University of Southern Denmark, April 2007
‘‘‘Manganeios Prodromos” as a source for the Second Crusade’; International Medieval Congress, July 2006
‘Conrad III and the Second Crusade: Dorylaion reconsidered’; Institute of Historical Research, London, December 2005
‘Conrad III and the Greek sources for the Second Crusade: errors, omissions and flawed assumptions’; International Medieval Congress, July 2005
‘Conrad III and the Second Crusade: retreat from Dorylaion?’; Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Conference, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, August 2004
‘Anatolia and the Second Crusade: who clashed with Louis VII?’; International Medieval Congress, July 2004
‘Louis VII and the Second Crusade: Anatolia reconsidered’; LAMPS Conference, University of Edinburgh, July 2003
Strand organiser and moderator at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July, 2020 (postponed)
Strand, session and round table co-organiser at the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East 9th Quadrennial Conference, June 29 – 03 July 2020 (postponed)
Session organiser at the International Medieval Congress, July, 2019
Session organiser at the Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond – International Workshop, University of Vienna; November 2018
Symposium co-organiser at Manchester Metropolitan University, February, 2018: The Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Second Annual Symposium
Co-organiser of eight sessions sponsored by the Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2017
Symposium co-organiser at Manchester Metropolitan University, February, 2017: The Northern Network
for the Study of the Crusades Inaugural Symposium; sponsored by The Royal Historical Society and the History Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University
Round Table co-organiser and moderator at the IMC 2009-14: “Teaching Medieval History”; sponsored by the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and History Lab Plus, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Strand co-organiser and moderator at the IMC 2011: ‘Poverty, Wealth, and the Crusade Movement’
Session organiser at the IMC 2008: ‘Combating nature during the early crusades’; sponsored by the Medieval Logistics Group
Strand co-organiser and moderator at the IMC 2006: ‘The Second Crusade in Perspective’, sponsored by the Haskins Society
Reviewer for The Medieval Review
Reviewer for The British Journal of Military
History
Reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan
Reviewer for The Journal of Medieval Military History
Reviewer for History: The Journal of the Historical Association
Reviewer for Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean
Reviewer for Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway,
Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference·
Reviewer for Hive: Historical Journal of the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Manchester Metropolitan University
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Fellowship for Researchers on Sabbatical Leave (2017)
Manchester Metropolitan University History Research Centre Fellowship for 2017/18
Manchester Metropolitan University History Research Centre Blue Skies Fund for 2017/18