Héctor R. Francisco is Assistant Professor of Social History at the History Department of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a researcher at the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (Multidisciplinary Institute of History and Human Sciences – IMHICIHU) of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (National Scientific and Technical Research Council – CONICET) of Argentina. He is also head of the Research Group on Late Antiquity (GISAT).
He specializes in Christian Syriac hagiographic literature from Late Antiquity. He has published several books on this subject, including:
- Historia, religión y política en la Antigüedad Tardía: La historiografía monofisita de los siglos V y VI (2011)
- La Historia de Karkhā de Bēth Slōkh y otros textos relativos a los mártires persas (2016)
- El Martirio de Gūbralāhā (2023)