Byzantine Dissertations in North America

This listing of dissertations in progress or recently completed resumes a survey published between 1982 and 1986 in Byzantine Studies/Études Byzantines, which lapsed when the journal ceased publication. The present listing of dissertations in Byzantine subjects undertaken at North American universities is based on information supplied to Dumbarton Oaks and makes no claims to comprehensiveness. Please send additions and notification of completed dissertations to the director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, so that the listing can be updated periodically.



The dissertation supervisor is noted in parentheses after the name of the university.

Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Justine M. Andrews (jandrews@unm.edu), "Imagery in the aftermath of the Crusades: A Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Commentary on Job (Paris, BN graecus 135)," University of California - Los Angeles (Barbara Zeitler), March 2002.

Diliana N. Angelova (angelova@fas.harvard.edu), "Gender and Imperial Authority in Rome and Early Byzantium, First to Sixth Centuries." Harvard University (Ioli Kalavrezou). November 2005.

Nikolas Bakirtzis (bakirtzis@princeton.edu), "Hagios Ioannis Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikeion: Byzantine Monastic Practice, Sacred Topography, and Architecture," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic). November 2005.

Jennifer Lee Ball (jball@brooklyn.cuny.edu), "Byzantine Dress," Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (Thomas F. Mathews), Sept. 2001.

Marina Belovic (bmarina@yahoo.com), "Ravanica Monastery Fresco Paintings in Medieval Art of the Balkans," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic), 1996.

Elena N. Boeck (eboeck@depaul.edu), "The Art of Being Byzantine: History, Structure, and Visual Narrative in the Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript," Yale University (Maria Georgopoulou), 2003.

Elizabeth Stinette Bolman (ebolman@unix.temple.edu), "The Coptic Galaktotrophousa as the Medicine of Immortality," Bryn Mawr College (Dale Kinney), 1997.

Kimberly Bowes (bowes@fordham.edu), "Possessing the Holy: Private Churches and Private Piety in Late Antiquity," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic), June 2002.

Karen C. Britt (karen.britt2@louisville.edu), "Mosaics in the Early Byzantine Churches of Palestine: Innovation or Replication?" Indiana University (W. Eugene Kleinbauer), August 2003.

Sarah T. Brooks (sarah.brooks@metmuseum.org) "Commemoration of the Dead: Late Byzantine Tomb Decoration (mid-13th to mid-15th Centuries)," Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (Thomas Mathews), May 2002.

Kimberly May Byrd (kimbyrdly@msn.com), "Pierre Gilles' Topography of Constantinople and Its Antiquities: a New Translation with Commentary," Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (History: Steve Reinert, Art History: Archer St. Clair Harvey), September 2002. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2002. IX, 619 p.

Matthew P. Canepa (canepam@cofc.edu), "The Two Eyes of the Earth: Competition and Exchange in the Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran," University of Chicago (Robert Nelson). May 2004.

Marica Cassis (marica.cassis@utoronto.ca), "The Development of the Altar in the Early Christian Church," University of Toronto. Summer 2006.

Joan Downs (jmdowns@umich.edu), "The Christian Tomb Mosaics From Tabarka: Status And Identity In A North African Roman Town," University of Michigan (Thelma Thomas), Summer 2007.

Debra Foran (debcforan@yahoo.ca), "The identification of a Mosaic Workshop at Madaba, Jordan," University of Toronto.

Ludovico Geymonat (ludovico.geymonat@unimi.it), "The Pictorial Program of the Parma Baptistry," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic), April 2006.

Haim Goldfus (hgoldfus@bgumail.bgu.ac.il), "Tombs and Burials in Churches and Monasteries of Byzantine Palestine (324 - 628 A.D.)," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic), 1997. (# 9715006)

Heather Grossman (hgrossma@uic.edu), "Building Identity: The Architectural Evidence of Cultural Exchange between Franks and Byzantines in Medieval Greece," University of Pennsylvania (Cecil L. Striker). November 2004.

Laura E. Hebert (255 West 108th Street, Apt. 1E, New York, NY 10025), "The Temple-Church at Aphrodisias," New York University, Institute of Fine Arts (Thomas Mathews). May, 2000.

Florent Heintz (florent.heintz@sothebys.com), "Agnostic Magic in the Late Antique Circus," Harvard University (Katherine Welch). November, 1999.

Cecily J. Hilsdale (cjhilsda@northwestern.edu), "Diplomacy by design: Rhetorical Strategies of the Byzantine Gift," University of Chicago (Robert S. Nelson), 2003.

Monika Hirschbichler (mhirschbichler@hotmail.com), "Monuments of a Syncretic Society: Wall Painting in the Latin Lordship of Athens, Greece (1204-1311)," University of Maryland, College Park (Sharon E.J. Gerstel). November 2005.

Tracy L. Hoffman (tracy@tracyhoffman.com), "Ascalon 'Arus al-Sham: Domestic Architecture and the Development of a Byzantine-Islamic City," University of Chicago (Fred Donner). May 2003.

Lynn Anne Jones (ljones915@cs.com), "Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal Iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Henry Maguire), 1995.

Gregor Kalas (gkalas@archone.tamu.edu), "Sacred Image/Urban Space: Images, Installations, and Rituals in the Early Medieval Roman Forum," Bryn Mawr College (Dale Kinney), Dec. 1999.

Veronica G. Kalas (vkalas@yahoo.com), "The Rock-Cut Architecture of the Peristrema Valley, Society and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia," New York University, Institute of Fine Arts (Thomas Mathews), 2000.

Asen Kirin (aekirin@arches.uga.edu), "The Rotunda of St. George and Late Antique Serdica: From Imperial Palace to Episcopal Complex," Princeton University (Slobodan Çurciç). May 2000. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2000. XI, 464 p.

Kriszta Kotsis (balaton@u.washington.edu), "Your Body, O Empress is a Treasure of Marvelous Qualities - Representations of Middle Byzantine Empresses (780-1081)," University of Washington (Anna D. Kartsonis), June 2004.

Konstantinos Kourelis (kkourel@clemson.edu), "Monuments of Rural Archaeology: Medieval Settlements in the Northwestern Peloponnese," University of Pennsylvania (Cecil L. Striker), August 2003.

Sarah Lepinski (slepinsk@brynmawr.edu), "Roman Wall Painting from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece," Bryn Mawr College, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (Stella Miller-Collett).

Stephen J. Lucey (slucey@wooster.edu), "The Church of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome: A Contextual Study 6th-9th c.," Rutgers University (Archer St. Clair), 1999.

Vasileios Marinis (vasileios_marinis@yahoo.com), "The Monastery tou Libos. Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Robert Ousterhout), April 2004.

Elizabeth Marlowe (emm53@columbia.edu), "'That Customary Magnificence Which Is Your Due': Constantine and the Symbolic Capital of Rome," Columbia University (Richard Brilliant and Natalie Kampen), February 2004.

Anne McClanan (anne@pdx.edu), "Empress, Image, State: Imperial Women in the Early Medieval World," Harvard University (Ioli Kalavrezou), 1997.

Gretchen Kreahling McKay (gmckay@mcdaniel.edu), "Imaging the Divine: A Study of the Representations of the Ancient of Days in Byzantine Manuscripts," University of Virginia (John J. Yiannias), 1997.

Amy Cassens Papalexandrou (apapalex@yahoo.com), "The Church of the Virgin of Skripou: Architecture, Sculpture and Inscriptions in Ninth-Century Byzantium," Princeton University (Slobodan Çurciç), 1998.

Georgi Radomirov Parpulov (gparpulov@the walters.org), "Towards a History of Byzantine Psalters," University of Chicago (Robert S. Nelson). 2004.

Bissera V. Pentcheva (bissera@stanford.edu), "Images of the Virgin in Middle-Byzantine Constantinople: icons, seals, coins, ivories, and manuscripts," Harvard University (Ioli Kalavrezou), May 2001.

David K. Pettegrew (dpettegrew@messiah.edu), " Corinth on the Isthmus: studies of the end of an ancient landscape," Ohio State University (Timothy Gregory), 2006.

Alexandra Retzleff (retzleff@hotmail.com), "The Orchestra Space in Theaters of the Roman and Byzantine Near East," University of North Carolina (G. Koeppel), 2001.

Marice Rose (mrose@mail.fairfield.edu), "The Iconography of Female Adornment in Late Antiquity," Rutgers University (Archer St. Clair), December 2000. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI 2001. XII, 221 p.

Rossitza Roussanova (rroussan@hotmail.com), "Painted Messages of Salvation: Monumental Programs of the Subsidiary Spaces of the Late Byzantine Monastic Churches in Macedonia." University of Maryland (Henry Maguire) 2005.

Edmund C. Ryder (ecr3328@nyu.edu), "Portable Mosaic Icons of the Late Byzantine Period, 1261-1453," New York University - Institute of Fine Arts (Thomas F. Mathews). Exams January 2003.

Sharon Salvadori (sharonsalvadori@yahoo.com), "Per feminam mors, per feminam vita. Images of women in the early Christian funerary art of Rome," Institute of Fine Arts - NYU (Thomas Mathews). 2002.

Stephanie Leigh Smith (273 N. Heights Ave. #5, Youngstown, OH 44504), "Gold Glass of the Late Roman Empire: Production, Context, and Function," Rutgers University (Archer St. Clair), May 2000. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2000. XLIII, 432 p.

Margo Stavros (220 East Hamilton Ave. Apt. 2, State College, PA 16801-5336), "Precious Metals in Byzantine Art and Society, 843-1204," Pennsylvania State University (Anthony Cutler), August 2002.

James H. Terry (508 So. Garth Ave., Columbia, MO 65203), "Early Christian Tomb Mosaics of Roman, Vandalic and Byzantine Byzacena," University of Missouri (Marcus Rautman), May 1998.

Nicolette Sophia Trahoulia (trahoulia@hotmail.com), "The Venice Alexander Romance, Hellenic Institute Codex Gr. 5: A Study of Alexander the Great as an Imperial Paradigm in Byzantine Art and Literature," Harvard University (Ioli Kalavrezou) 1997. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2004. 243 p.

Jelena Trkulja (trkulja@princeton.edu), "Aesthetics and Symbolism of Late Byzantine Church Façades, 1204-1453," Princeton University (Slobodan Curcic). June 2004.

Jacquelyn Tuerk (jtuerk@kean.edu), "How To Do Things with Words and Images in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," University of Chicago (Robert S. Nelson), June 2002.

Angela M. Volan (deceased), "Last Judgments and Last Emperors: Illustrating Apocalyptic History in Late- and Post-Byzantine Art". University of Chicago (Robert S. Nelson), June 2005.

Stephen M. Wagner (smwagnerphd@yahoo.com), "Silken Parchments: Design, Context, Patronage and Function of Textile-Inspired Pages in Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts," University of Delaware (Lawrence Nees). April 2004.

Alicia Walker (awwalker@wustl.edu), "'Insatiable Enjoyment': The Role of Islamic Elements in the Aesthetics of Middle Byzantine Secular Art," Harvard University (Ioli Kalavrezou), April 2004.

Kathy Jo Wetter (kjo@etcgroup.org), "The Relationship between Archetype and Image throughout the Era of Byzantine Iconoclasm," University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Jaroslav Folda), Jan. 2001.

Warren Theriot Woodfin (woodfin@sas.upenn.edu) "Late Byzantine Embroidered Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Henry Maguire), April 2002.

Ann Marie Yasin (yasin@usc.edu), "Commemorating the Dead - Constructing the Community: Church Space, Funerary Monuments, and Saints' Cults in Late Antiquity," University of Chicago (Robert S. Nelson). June 2002. University Microfilm serial no. 0-493-62813-4, Source DAI-A 63/04. p. 1165.

Art and Archaeology/History

Jesse J. Casana (jcasana@uark.edu), "From Alalakh to Antioch: Settlement, Land Use and Environmental Change in the Lower Orontes River Valley," University of Chicago (Tony J. Wilkinson). December 2003.

Christina Maranci (cmaranci@uwm.edu), "Medieval Armenian Architecture in Historiography: Josef Strzygowski and his Legacy," Princeton University (Slobodan Çurciç), 1998.

Ghida El-Osman (c/o Mr. Malek Salam, P.O. Box 218, Beirut, Lebanon), "From Berytus to Bayrut: A Late Antique City in Transition," University of Chicago (Fred M. Donner).

James G. Schryver (schryver@morris.umn.edu ), "Spheres of Contact and Instances of Interaction in the Art and Archaeology of Frankish Cyprus, 1191-1359. " Cornell University (Robert T. Farrell), 2005

Tasha Vorderstrasse (Hogewoerd 102A, 2311 HT Leiden, Netherlands), "A Port City under Byzantium, Islam, and the Crusades: Continuity and Change at al-Mina, AD 350-1268," University of Chicago (Fred Donner).

History

Dimiter G. Angelov (d.angelov@bham.ac.uk), "Imperial Ideology and Power in Late Byzantium, 1204-1328," Harvard University (Angeliki Laiou), 2002.

Jane Baun (Olguadalupe99@yahoo.co.uk), "The Apocalypse of Anastasia in its Middle Byzantine Context," Princeton University (Peter Brown, Judith Herrin), 1997.

John Birkenmeier (jwbirk@email.msn.com), "The Development of the Komnenian Army," The Catholic University of America (George Dennis), 1998.

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom (dbrookshedstrom@wittenberg.edu), " 'Your Cell Will Teach You All Things": The Relationship between Monastic Practice and the Architectural Design of the Cell in Coptic Monasticism, 400-1000," Miami University (Edwin Yamauchi), May 2001.

Caren F. Calendine (caren.calendine@oberlin.edu), "The Recognition of Saints in the Middle Byzantine Church," University of Wisconsin, Madison (John W. Barker), 1998.

William Caraher (william.caraher@und.nodak.edu), "Space, Society, and the Sacred in Early Byzantine Greece," Ohio State University (Timothy Gregory). August 2003.

Jonathan Conant (conant@sandiego.edu), "Vandals, Moors, Byzantines: Romanitas and the cultural transformation of the North African Elite, c. 400 - c. 650," Harvard University (Michael McCormick), 2003.

Florin Curta (fcurta@history.ufl.edu), "Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the Early Slavs (6th to 7th c.)," Western Michigan University (Lucian Rosu), 1998. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 1998. XVII, 1136 p.

George E. Demacopoulos (demacopoulos@fordham.edu ), "A Monk in Shepherd's Clothing: Pope Gregory I and the Asceticizing of Spiritual Direction," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Peter I. Kaufman), Dec. 2001.

Roger Steven Evans (2945 Princeville Dr., Pickerington, OH 43147), "Soteriologies of Early Christianity within the Intellectual Context of the Early Roman Empire: Barnabas and Clement of Rome as Case Studies," Ohio State University (Timothy E. Gregory), 1996. OCLC # 35549769, Isn/std # .b44795154.

Michael Gaddis (jmgaddis@maxwell.syr.edu), "Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire," Princeton University (Peter Brown).

Linda Jones Hall (ljhall@osprey.smcm.edu), "Berytus, 'Mother of Laws:' Studies in the Social History of Beirut from the Third to the Sixth Centuries A.D.," Ohio State University (Timothy E. Gregory), 1996. OCLC # 35562767, Isn/std # .b45001510.

Paul Halsall (Halsall@comcast.net), "Women's Bodies, Men's Souls: Sanctity and Gender in Byzantium," Fordham University (Maryanne Kowaleski). 1999.

Todd M. Hickey (thickey@library.berkeley.edu), "A Public 'House' but Closed: 'Fiscal Participation' and Economic Decision Making on the Oxyrhynchite Estate of the Flavii Apiones," The University of Chicago (Walter E. Kaegi). May 2001.

Susan R. Holman (srholman@post.harvard.edu), "The Body of the Poor in 4th c. Cappadocia: Seven Sermons on Hunger, Sickness and Penury," Brown University (Susan Ashbrook Harvey). April 1998. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 1998. X, 375 p.

Joshua Holo (jholo@huc.edu), "An Economic History of the Jews of Byzantium from the Eve of the Muslim Conquest to the Fourth Crusade," The University of Chicago (Walter E. Kaegi). 2001.

Aaron Johnson (aaron_johnson1@baylor.edu), "Ethnic Argumentation in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica," University of Colorado (Noel Lenski), 2003.

Anthony Kaldellis (kaldellis.1@osu.edu), "Prokopios as Classical Historian and Political Thinker," University of Michigan (John Fine), 2001.

Nikolaos Kalogeras (graecus@hol.gr), "Byzantine Childhood Education and Its Social Role from the Sixth Century until the End of Iconoclasm," University of Chicago (Walter E. Kaegi). April, 2000.

Athanasios C. Karras (P.O. Box 1771, Camarillo, CA 93011), "Leadership Style of Constantine the Great: Significance for Leadership Development in the Church," Trinity College and Theological Seminary (Ray L. Parker), March, 2001.

Valerie A. Karras (vkarras@smu.edu), "The Liturgical Participation of Women in the Byzantine Church," Catholic University of America (George Dennis), April 2002.

Nancy Khalek (nakhalek@princeton.edu), "Continuity and Change: Damascus and early Byzantium to Early Islam," Princeton University (Peter Brown), 2006

Dimitrios Krallis (dkrallis@umich.edu) "History as Politics in Eleventh-Century Byzantium," University of Michigan 2006

Demetrios Kyritzes (kyritses@phl.uoc.gr), "The Byzantine Aristocracy in the 13th and early 14th Centuries," Harvard University (Angeliki E. Laiou), 1997.

Christopher MacEvitt (christopher.macevitt@dartmouth.edu), "Creating Christian Identities: Crusaders and Local Communities in the Levant, 1097-1187," Princeton University (William C. Jordan) June 2002.

Camilla M. MacKay, (cmackay@brynmawr.edu), "The Road Networks and Postal Service of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empires (First-Fifteenth Centuries A.D.): Social Effects on the Provincial Population," University of Michigan (J.F. Cherry and T.K. Thomas), 1999.

Jaclyn LaRae Maxwell (maxwelj1@ohio.edu), "Preaching to the Converted: John Chrysostom and his Audience in Antioch," Princeton University (Peter Brown). August 2000. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI 2000. VIII, 257 p.

Stamatina McGrath (vasileus@aol.com), "A Study of the Social Structure of Byzantine Aristocracy as Seen Through Ioannis Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum," The Catholic University of America (George T. Dennis), 1996.

Petar Milich (1356 Farmview Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138), "Cumulative Slavicity: Cultural Interaction and Language Replacement in the North Balkans during the Slavic Migration Period, AD 500 - 900," Ohio State University (Timothy E. Gregory), 1995. OCLC # 33349513, Isn/std # .b4333782x.

R. Scott Moore (rsmoore@iup.edu), "Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, 100-700 AD: The Ceramic Evidence," Ohio State University (Timothy E. Gregory), Aug., 2000.

Leonora Neville (nevillel@cua.edu), "Local Provincial Élites in Eleventh-Century Hellas and Peloponnese," Princeton University (Judith Herrin), 1998.

Ruma Niyogi (niyogi@sxu.edu), "Revisiting the 'Time of Troubles': Gender and Politics in Byzantium 1025-1081," University of Chicago (Walter E. Kaegi).2005.

A. Tom Papademetriou (apapadem@comcast.net), "Post-Byzantine Elites as Muslims and Christians: 1453-1600," Princeton University (Heath W. Lowry).

Carl Pearson (pearson1@fas.harvard.edu), "Scripture as Cosmology: Natural Philosophical Debate in John Philoponus' Alexandria," Harvard University (John E. Murdoch).

Christian Raffensperger (craffens@uchicago.edu) "Reexamining Rus': The Place of Kievan Rus' in Europe, ca. 800-1146." University of Chicago, Department of History (Walter Kaegi).

Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (srapp@gsu.edu), "Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past," University of Michigan (John V.A. Fine, Jr.), 1997. Univ. Microfilm 97-22070.

Giovanni Ruffini (grr919@gmail.com), "Social Network Analysis in Late Antique Egypt," Columbia University (Roger Bagnall). April 2005.

Constantina Scourtis Gaddis (tinasgaddis@yahoo.com), "The Failure of Reconciliation: Byzantine Experience at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39). University of California, Los Angeles (Barisa Krekiç).2005.

John F. Shean (jshean@lagcc.cuny.edu), "Militans pro Deo: The Christianization of the Roman Army," University of Wisconsin-Madison (F.M. Clover), August 1998. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI 1998. 262 p.

Helen Sillett (hsillet@socrates.berkeley.edu), "Culture of Controversy. The Christological Disputes of the Early Fifth Century," Univ. of California, Berkeley (Susanna Elm), May 1999. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 1999. XXII, 197 p.

Daniëlle Slootjes (d.slootjes@let.ru.nl), "The Image of the Governor for Provincials of the Early Byzantine World," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Richard Talbert). March 2004.

Gregory A. Smith (gregory.a.smith@case.edu), "A Cultural History of the Soul in Late Antiquity," Harvard University (Michael McCormick) 2005.

Helen Theodotou (theodotou.1@osu.edu), "The Economic and Political Policies of Heraclius I as Depicted on His Coinage of 608-10 AD & 610-41 AD," Ohio State University (Timothy E. Gregory), 1996. MA Thesis. OCLC # 34728963, Isn/std # .b44202647.

Caroline Bryant Vandervelde (vandervc@stewardschool.org), "Interpretation and Edification in Eusebius' Life of Constantine," University of Texas at Austin (Andrew Riggsby). 2003.

Joel Walker (jwalker@u.washington.edu), "'Your Heroic Deeds Give Us Pleasure!' Culture and Society in the Christian Martyr Legends of Late Antique Iraq," Princeton University (Peter R. L. Brown), 1998.

Edward Watts (ejwatts@indiana.edu), "City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria," Yale University (John Matthews), May 2002. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2002. III, 470 p.

Diana Gilliland Wright (wright@tmn.com), "Bartolomeo Minio: Venetian Administration in Fifteenth Century Nauplion," Catholic University of America (George Dennis), 1999.

History of Theater

Andrew White (awhite@wam.umd.edu), "The Artifice of Eternity: Studies of Representational Practices in the Byzantine Theatre and Orthodox Church," University of Maryland (Catherine Schuler/George Majeska), 2006.

Language and Literature

Suzanne Abrams (sabrams@princeton.edu), "Speaking of Salvation: Gregory of Nazianzus as Poet and Priest in his Autobiographical Poems," Brown University (Joseph Pucci). 2003. Federica Ciccolella (Ciccolella@tamu.edu), "Donatus graecus: Learning Greek from Antiquity to the Renaissance," Columbia University (Alan Cameron). May 2004.

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (bourbouh@fas.harvard.edu), "Not Composed in a Chance Manner': The Epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathius of Thessalonike. Text, Translation, Commentary". Harvard University (John Duffy). November 2006.

Marta J. Deyrup (deyrupma@shu.edu), "The Vita Constantini as Literary and Linguistic Construct for the Early Slavs," April 2006.

Frederick Lauritzen (fredericklauritzen@yahoo.it), "The Depiction of Character in Psellos' Chronographia," Columbia University (Alan Cameron), 2005

Christopher Livanos (clivanos@facstaff.wisc.edu), "Greek and Latin Traditions in the Work of George Gennadios Scholarios," Harvard University (Jan Ziolkowski and John Duffy), 2001.

Maria Mavroudi (mavroudi@socrates.berkeley.edu), "The Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources," Harvard University (Ihor Sevcenko), 1998.

Panayiotis Pappas (panayiotis_pappas@sfu.ca), "Weak Object Pronoun Placement in Medieval and Early Modern Greek," Ohio State University (Brian Joseph). University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2001. XIV, 218 p.

Charles Frederick Pazdernik (pazdernc@gvsu.edu), "A Dangerous Liberty and a Servitude Free From Care: Political Eleutheria and Douleia in Procopius of Caesarea and Thucydides of Athens," Princeton University (J. Ober, P. Brown, M. Maas), 1997.

Panagiotis Roilos (roilos@fas.harvard.edu), "Generic Modulations in the Byzantine Novel," Harvard University (Margaret Alexiou, John Duffy), 1999.

Music and Liturgy

Alexander Leonidas Lingas (Alexander.lingas.1@city.ac.uk), "Sunday Matins in the Byzantine Cathedral Rite: Music and Liturgy," University of British Columbia (J. Evan Kreider - UBC, Milos Velimiroviç - external), 1996.

Religious Studies and Art History

Stephen Davis (stephen.davis@yale.edu), "The Cult of Saint Thecla, Apostle and Protomartyr: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity," Yale University (Bentley Layton and Maria Georgopoulou). University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 1998. XIII, 289 p.

Kevin Koczela (kkoczela@gtu.edu), "Silent Speeches and Books that Speak: Memory and Orality in Eighth-Century Byzantine Image Cult," Graduate Union Theological Seminary, Berkeley (E.M. Ludwig), 2000.

Religion, Theology and Liturgy

Stefanos Alexopoulos (stalexnd@otenet.gr), "The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite: A Comparative Analysis of its Origins, Evolution and Structural Components," University of Notre Dame (Maxwell Johnson), May 2004.

Seongkyou Bang (deceased), "Rediscovery of the Fear of God: A Study of The Sayings of the Desert Fathers," Emory University (Roberta C. Bondi). 1999

Christopher Beeley (christopher.beeley@yale.edu), "Gregory of Nazianzus: Trinitarian Theology, Spirituality and Pastoral Theory" University of Notre Dame (Brian E. Daley). 2004

Byard Bennett (byard.bennett@utoronto.ca ), "The Origin of Evil: Didymus the Blind's Contra Manichaeos and its Debt to Origen's Theology and Exegesis," St. Michael's College, Toronto (Robert Sinkewicz), Dec. 1997. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/ MI, 1997. VIII, 394 p.

Kirsti Barrett Copeland (kbc@stanford.edu), "Mapping the Apocalypse of Paul: Geography, Genre and History," Princeton University (Martha Himmelfarb/Elaine Pagels). June 2001. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2001. IX, 323 p.

William Edmund Fahey (wfahey@christendom.edu ), "Maximus of Turin and his Late Antique Community," The Catholic University of America (William E. Klingshirn), May 2002. [Bell&Howard/Proquest, #3075235]

Cornelia Bernadette Horn (horncb@slu.edu), "Beyond Theology: The Career of Peter the Iberian in the Christological Controversies of Fifth and Sixth Century Palestine," The Catholic University of America (Sidney H. Griffith). April 2001. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2001. XI, 406 p.

Dayna Kalleres (kalleres@stanford.edu ), "Exorcising the Devil to Silence Christ's Enemies: Ritualized Speech Practices in Late Antique Christianity" Brown University (Susan Harvey), 2000.

Joel Kalvesmaki (kalvesmakij@doaks.org), "The Formation of the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Christian Gnosis," Catholic University of America (William McCarthy), 2006

Jacqueline E. Martin, "Cardinal Bessarion: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Union between East and West," University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (John Wortley), 2000.

Alexander Mirkovic (amirkovic@mail.mcneese.edu), "Prelude to Constantine: The Invented Tradition of King Abgar of Edessa," Vanderbilt University (Eugene TeSelle). University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI 2002. X, 252 p.

Yannis Papadoyannakis, "The Apologetics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus against Pagans," Princeton University (Peter Brown), 2004.

Greg Peters (gregspeters@aol.com), " 'A Treasury of Divine Knowledge and Wisdom': The Twelfth-Century Byzantine Spiritual Theology of Peter Damaskenos," University of St. Michael's College at Toronto (T. Allen Smith). September 2003.

Ute Possekel (utepossekel@sprintmail.com), "Evidence of Greek Philosophical Concepts in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian," Princeton Theological Seminary (Kathleen McVey). University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 1997. 288 p.

Despina D. Prassas (ddprassas@aol.com), "St. Maximos the Confessor's Questions and Doubts: Translation and Commentary," Catholic University of America (Robin Young), April 2003. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, VIII, 428 p.

Jean-Francois Racine, "The Text of Matthew's Gospel in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea," University of Toronto ( ? ), 2000.

Walter Ray, (The St. Paul Seminary, 2260 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55015), "August 15 and the Development of the Jerusalem Calendar," University of Notre Dame (Paul F. Bradshaw), May 2000. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor/MI, 2000. VI, 377 p.

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