Radka works on the history of late antique and early medieval Mediterranean worlds with a particular interest in the late Roman Empire. Her research explores the complexity of navigating lives both within and without empire, interweaving different types of evidence from various regions to reconstruct a sense of the multifocality and complexity that characterised the lifeways of the empire and what came after it. Her dissertation concentrates on the making of sixth-century Roman provincial worlds.

Before coming to Princeton, Radka graduated top of her year with a BA in History at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Her undergraduate dissertation on the empire and Constantinople in the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai was awarded several prizes, including the Faculty Prize and the Mansergh Prize in History. She subsequently earned an MPhil in Classics at the same university as a Harding, Bakala and Hayes scholar, with her thesis on liturgical processions and disease management in sixth-century Rome receiving the faculty’s Members’ Classical Essay prize. She has also completed archaeological courses with the British School at Athens and the British School in Rome, and worked as an intern for the Knossos Stratigraphical Museum in Crete and as a ceramics specialist for the Pompeii I.14 excavation.