Roman K. Kovalev

Roman K. Kovalev is an assistant professor of history at the College of New Jersey where he teaches classes on Russian history and culture as well as seminars focused on his more specific areas of study. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. His writings have focused on early Russian history and archaeology, the Scythians, Cimmerians, Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs, Oghuz, and Kipchaks.
Kovalev has authored some of the most up to date and comprehensive analsyses of the economic history of the Pontic steppe, including the Scandinavian-Middle Eastern trade routes and the rise of the Kievan Rus.
In 2005, Kovalev wrote the first detailed analysis of Khazar coins discovered in the Spillings horde and at other dig sites. He formulated the hypothesis that these coins, which were struck in imitation of Caliphate dirhems and bore the inscription "Moses is the Prophet of God", were intended to commemorate the conversion of the Khazar kingdom to Judaism, an event which Kovalev (and now other Khazar researchers, including Kevin A. Brook) dates to the year 838 CE.
Selected bibliography
*Kovalev, Roman K. (2005) Commerce and Caravan Routes Along the Northern Silk Road (Sixth-Ninth Centuries) - Part I: The Western Sector
*Kovalev, Roman K.. (2005) Creating Khazar Identity through Coins: The Special Issue Dirhams of 837/8 (Book Chapter in East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages )
*Kovalev, Roman K. (2004) What Does Historical Numismatics Suggest About the Monetary History of Khazaria in the Ninth Century? - Question Revisited (Journal Article in Archivum Eurasiae medii aevi)
*Kovalev, Roman K. (2003) The Mint of al-Shash: The Vehicle for the Origins and Continuation of Trade Relations Between Viking-Age Northern Europe and Samanid Central Asia (Journal Article in Archivum Eurasiae medii aevi)
*Kovalev, Roman K. (2001) The Infrastructure of the Northern Part of the "Fur Road" Between the Middle Volga and the East During the Middle Ages (Journal Article in Archivum Eurasiae medii aevi)
*Kovalev, Roman K. (2001) Mint Output in Tenth-Century Bukhara: A Case Study of Dirham Production and Monetary Circulation in Northern Europe (Journal Article in Russian history Histoire russe)
*Kovalev, Roman K.; Noonan, Thomas S. (2000) What Can Archaeology Tell Us About How Debts Were Documented and Collected in Kievan Rus? (Journal Article in Russian history Histoire russe)
*Kovalev, Roman K. (1999) Zvenyhorod in Galicia: An Archaeological Survey (Eleventh - Mid-Century) (Journal Article in Journal of Ukrainian studies ëZìHurnal ukraèinoznavchykh studiæi)
*Kovalev, Roman K.. (1999) Review of Sarkel i 'shelkovyi' put' by Svetlana A. Pletneva (Book Review in Archivum Eurasiae medii aevi)
*Noonan, Thomas S.; Kovalev, Roman K.. (1999) Wine and Oil For All the Rus'! The Importation of Byzantine Wine and Olive Oil to Kievan Rus (Journal Article in Acta Byzantina Fennica)
*Noonan, Thomas S.; Kovalev, Roman K. (1998) Review of 'Linguistic Interrelations in Early Rus by Bohdan Struminski (Book Review in Journal of Ukrainian studies: ëZìHurnal ukraèinoznavchykh studiæi)

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