Dr Chris Mallan is an ancient historian who works in the areas of Roman Imperial History, Historiography and the reception of the Greco-Roman historiographical tradition in Byzantium.

Dr Mallan joined the staff of the University of Western Australia as Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Prior to this, he was the college Lecturer in Ancient History at St Benet's Hall (2015-2017) and Lecturer in Roman History at The Queen's College (2017) at the University of Oxford. Between 2015-2016 he also held the post of Titular Lecturer in Classics at Wadham College.

Dr Mallan received his DPhil from the University of Oxford (Wadham College). Before that he studied at the University of Queensland, where he received his BA (Hons. I) and MPhil. 

• Condensing the Classics: Studies in Byzantine Epitomes and the Greek Epitomizing Tradition (with contributions from: Jeff Beneker, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Melina Vogiatzi, Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Laura Pfuntner, Marion Kruse, Marios Tantalos)
• (edited with Eleanor Cowan) Making Sense of Monarchy (with contributions from: Rhiannon Ash, Kimberley Czajkowski, Robert Cowan, Elly Cowan, Shushma Malik, Elisabeth Slingsby, Nakeesha Radice, Liv Yarrow)

Dr Mallan teaches and co-ordinates all the Roman History units offered at UWA. These units include: CLAN2002 Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, 44 BC - AD 68; CLAN3011 Sex, Gender, and the Body in the Greco-Roman World; CLAN3006 The Roman Revolution (Roman History 146BC-44BC); CLAN3009 Religion, Society and the Divine in the Roman World: From Augustus to Augustine. He also teaches the Honours level historiography unit, CLAN4105 Literature, Narrative, History, as well as Greek 3 (CLAN3203).  

Dr Mallan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 

• Discipline Group Chair: Classics and Ancient History (2020-2022)
• Major Coordinator: Classics and Ancient History (2023 Jan-June)
• Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) (2022- )