Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.^[1] He is a Fellow of Clare College.

In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.^[2]

• Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus (Harvard University Press, 1991)
• (with Jonathan Shepard) The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200 (Longman, 1996)
• Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture Ashgate, 2002
• National Identity in Russian Culture. An Introduction (ed. with Emma Widdis) Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Information and Empire. Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (ed. with Katherine Bowers) (Open Book Publishers, 2017)
• The Russian Graphosphere 1450-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)