Graduate Programs in North America
Brown University
Department of Religious Studies
(Updated July 2006)
Box 1927
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-3104
[Link]
Faculty member: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2004-07: The Virgin Mary in Late Antiquity; Ecology and Theology in Ancient Christianity; Sacred Bodies; Asceticism in Late Antiquity; Ancient Christianity and the Sensing Body; the Christianization of the Syrian Orient.
Note: There is great strength in Late Antiquity. In addition to Religious Studies, there are important faculty in Classics, Egyptology, Art and Archaeology (with a new Institute of Archaeology, Prof. Susan Alcock, Director), and Judaic Studies.
Department of Classics
(Updated July 2006)
Macfarlane House,
48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2123
[Link]
Faculty member: Stratis Papaioannou
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2006-7
The World of Byzantium (Spring 2006)
Early Byzantine Literature (Spring 2006)
Greek Autobiography: From Plato to the Middle Ages (Fall 2006)
The Invention of Literature: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Fall 2006)
Bryn Mawr College
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Department of the History of Art
101 North Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Tel: 610-526-5074
Faculty member: Dale Kinney
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 1997-2001: Medieval Rome, Roman origins of Christian Imagery, Spolia.
Department of Classics
101 N. Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Tel: 610-526-5198
Faculty member: Catherine Conybeare
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2002-03: Augustine and the Classical Tradition; Epistolography (late antique-early Byzantine)
Note: the Graduate group comprises three departments: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, History of Art, and Greek, Latin and Classical Studies. Admission is to, and degrees are conferred by, the separate departments. Students interested in Byzantine subjects can draw on the resources of all three departments. Faculty strength is principally in the areas of late antiquity and Byzantine Italy.
Catholic University of America
Department of Greek and Latin
(Updated July 2006)
308 McMahon Hall
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5216
[Link]
Note: Students come from the History and Church History Departments, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, and Early Christian Studies Program, which all have degree programs in Byzantine fields.
Faculty member: William E. Klingshirn (will be on leave 2006-7)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2004-2007: The Mediterranean World of Late Antiquity (to the 8th century).
Faculty member: William J. McCarthy
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2004-2007: Gregory of Nazianzus (Directed Reading)
Department of History
Gibbons Hall
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5484
[Link]
Faculty member: Leonora Neville
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1998-2003: Byzantine Ethics; From Late Antiquity to Early Byzantium; Eastern Perspectives on the Crusades; Byzantium and the Caliphate; Byzantium and the West; Crusaders and Colonies.
Graduate Studies in Early Christianity
(Updated July 2006)
The Center for the Study of Early Christianity
300 McMahon Hall
Catholic University of America
P.O. Box 337
Washington DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5795
Director: Philip Rousseau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies
Tel: 202-319-6217
Much of the Center's work, at both faculty and student levels, inevitably impinges on the Byzantine field. Dr Susan Wessel of the School of Theology and Religious Studies, biographer of Cyril of Alexandria, exemplifies our potential for overlap.
CUA is fortunate in the substantial number of internationally distinguished scholars in the field, and has a special standing in the Syriac and Coptic spheres, presided over by Professor Sidney Griffith and Dr Janet Timbie.
Of particular note in that connection is the wealth of material in the library of our Institute for Christian Oriental Research, which includes manuscripts, papyri, and ostraka, together with substantial electronic resources. Our close working relationship with Dumbarton Oaks and other universities in the DC area, and the proximity of the Library of Congress, make CUA an ideal place to pursue research.
Full accounts of faculty research and teaching are available on or linked to the Center website: http://csec.cua.edu/faculty.
At the moment, we are not admitting students to our Early Christian Studies Program, but we hope to resume doing so in either 2007 or 2008. Meanwhile, graduates pursue an early Christian interest in the University's various Schools and Departments, with financial aid from the Center. A list of current doctoral work is available at http://csec.cua.edu/graduate/students.cfm.
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
826 Schermerhorn Hall
MC 5517
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Telephone: 212-854-4505
Faculty member: Holger Klein [currently on leave]
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2001: Early Christian and Byzantine art
Department of Classics
(Updated July 2006)
MC 2861
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-3902
Faculty member: Roger S. Bagnall
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught /2006-7: Hellenistic and Roman
Egypt (undergraduate seminar)
Faculty member: Alan Cameron
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Pagans and Christians in
4th and 5th century Rome (graduate seminar)
Faculty member: Raffaella Cribiore
Title of courses taught 2004-5: Papyrology
Duke University
Department of Religion
(Updated July 2006)
118 Gray Building, Box 90964
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919-660-3510
Faculty members: Elizabeth Clark
Lucas Van Rompay
Department of Art and Art History
112 East Duke Building
Campus Drive
Durham NC 27708
Tel: 919-684-2224
Faculty member: Annabel Wharton
George Washington University
Department of Art
Smith Hall of Art, Room A101
801 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-6085
[Link]
Faculty member: Jeffrey C. Anderson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Icons-Manuscripts Connoisseurship; Medieval Byzantine Small Objects
Harvard University
Department of History of Art and Architecture
(updated August 2006)
Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2377
[Link]
Faculty member: Ioli Kalavrezou
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2000: Topography of Constantinople; Art of the Court of Constantinople; Byzantine "Magic"; Study of Byzantine Manuscript Illustration; Byzantine Women; Local Cults and the Development of Pilgrimage Sites; Byzantine Use of Materials (seminar series)
Department of History
(Updated July 2006)
Robinson Hall
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617- 495-2556
Faculty member: Angeliki Laiou
Titles of Byzantine courses: History 1213. The Imperial System: Byzantine Society and Civilization, 8th Century-1204 (2004-05); History 2271r. Topics in Byzantine History (Graduate Seminar) (2004-05); History 1158. The Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages, 1204-1500 (2004-05); History 1166. Family, Sex, Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (2006-07); History 2120. Problems in Byzantine History (Graduate Seminar) (2006-07)
Faculty member: Michael McCormick
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Medieval Studies 101. The Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval History (2004-05) (2006-07);History 2122. Early Medieval History: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean(Graduate Seminar) (2004-05); History 1101. Medieval Europe (2005-06); History 1111. The Fall of the Roman Empire (2006-07)
Department of Classics
204 Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4027
Faculty member: John Duffy
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2002: Introduction to Byzantine Greek; Greek Paleography; Byzantine Saints' Lives (seminar); Introduction to Medieval Greek Culture; Byzantine Chronographic Tradition (seminar); Readings in the Cappadocian Fathers 2002-03: Byzantine Religious Tales; Editing Greek Christian Literature (seminar); The Literature of Iconoclasm (seminar).
Faculty member: Panagiotis Roilos
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2002-03: The Byzantine Novel
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97,1997-98: Readings in Byzantine Greek; Prodromic Poems (seminar)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: art collection and coin collection in Sackler Museum; manuscripts in the Houghton Library; papyri; special seminars and lectures in Byzantine studies sponsored by the Standing Committee of the FAS, on Medieval Studies; D.O.-Committee on Medieval Studies Exchange program.
Indiana University
Department of History of Art
Fine Arts Building 132
Bloomington, IN 47405-3501
Faculty member: W. Eugene Kleinbauer - Retired 2006
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Art Museum, Lilly Library of rare manuscripts.
Affiliated faculty: Thomas Mathiesen, Medieval and Byzantine musicology; David Brakke, early Christian religious studies; Edward Watts, history of late antiquity
Johns Hopkins University
Department of History of Art
(Updated July 2006)
268 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685
Tel: 410-516-7117
Faculty member: Henry Maguire
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Secular Arts of Byzantium; Early Christian and Byzantine Textiles; Late Antique and Byzantine Floor Mosaics; Medieval Art and Architecture of Venice; Early Christian and Byzantine Wall Mosaics.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: The department works closely with the Walters Art Museum, which has rich holdings in Byzantine and medieval art and manuscripts.
Loyola University Chicago
Department of Classical Studies
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Tel: 773-508-3650
[Link]
Faculty member: Jacqueline Long
Titles of Byzantine courses taught spring 2001: Latin, Ammianus Marcellinus; spring 2002: Latin, Augustine, Confessions; fall 2002: Latin, The Historia Augusta.
Byzantine related faculty: Greg Dobrov, among more classical interests, also Byzantine hymnography. James G. Keenan, Greek, Papyrology (covering other periods also).
Department of History
6525 Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Tel: 773-508-2221
[Link]
Faculty member: Leslie Dossey at this time only teaching undergrad. courses
New York University
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
New York, NY 10021-0178
Tel: 212-992-5800
[Link]
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Thomas F. Mathews (retired 2006)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2000: Late Byzantine Art (lecture); Early Christian and Early Byzantine Architecture (lecture); Byzantine Reliquaries (seminar); Egypt in Early Byzantine Times (seminar)
Department of History
53 Washington Square South, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212- 998-8600
[Link]
Faculty member: Kostis Smyrlis
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2006-7: Topics in Medieval History: Crusade and Trade; Byzantine History Survey, 4th-9th c.
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Papamarkou Endowment specifically for Byzantine acquisitions at the Bobst Library
Notre Dame University
Department of Art, Art History and Design
306 Riley Hall of Art & Design
Notre Dame, Indiana
Tel: 574- 631- 7452
[Link]
Faculty member: Charles Barber
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Byzantine Psalter (seminar); The Icon (seminar); Byzantine Art, 800-1200 (undergraduate).
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: major collection of books on Byzantine Studies in Anastos Library; 30 icons; some minor objects
Department of Theology
130 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel. 574-631-7811
[Link]
Faculty member: Brian Daley
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Early Christianity; The Christological Controversies of the Early Church
Faculty member: Robin Darling Young
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Monastic Way in the History of Christ
Ohio State University
Department of History
106 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: 614-292-2674
[Link]
Faculty member: Timothy E. Gregory
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Classics 294 (Greece after the Golden Age); History 607.01 (Early Byzantine Empire); History 607.02 (Later Byzantine Empire); History 808 (seminar in Byzantine History); Medieval and Renaissance Studies 694 (Religion and Material Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages).1998-2000: History 607.01 (Early Byzantine Empire), History 607.02 (Later Byzantine Empire), History 808 (seminar on City and Country in Byzantium)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Chilandar Research Center and Manuscript Library; Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia; Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
Department of Greek and Latin
(Updated July 2006)
414 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1319
Tel: 614-292-2744
[Link]
Faculty member: Anthony Kaldellis
Titles of Byzantine courses taught (2001-2007). Travels of the Byzantine Ambassadors (upper-level Greek); Introduction to Medieval Constantinople (UG survey); Classicizing Historians of Late Antiquity (graduate seminar); Hellenism in Byzantium (graduate seminar); Topics in Byzantine Literature (graduate seminar).
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Art History
229 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-865-6326
[Link]
Faculty member: Anthony Cutler
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Survey of Byzantine Art; Methods of Research in Byzantine Art (seminar)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: icons in Palmer Museum; manuscript facsimiles in Rare Books Collection
Princeton University
Department of History
129 Dickinson Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
Tel: 609-258-4159
Faculty members: Peter Brown
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2001-2002: Byzantium and the West (seminar)
John Haldon
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Transformation of the Ancient World: Byzantine History 500-1200; Problems in Byzantine History: Formation of Byzantium 600-850: Sources and Problems
Department of Art and Archaeology
105 McCormick Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
Tel: 609-258-3782
[Link]
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Slobodan Çurciç
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97,1997-98: Medieval Art (seminar); Art and Architecture of Late Antiquity; 2000-01: Late Antique Villa, Palace, Fortress in the Eastern Mediterranean (with T. Leisten) 2001-02: Constantinople - Istanbul (with T. Leisten), The Dome in Byzantine Architecture (with O. Grabar) 2002-03: "Regional Schools" in Palaiologan Architecture.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: manuscripts; coins; excellent library; Princeton University Art Museum; Index of Christian Art
The Program in Hellenic Studies is administered by an interdepartmental committee under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities. The Program supports faculty positions and offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum, as well as graduate opportunities in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
Rutgers University
Department of Art History
Vorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
Tel: 732-932-7041
[Link]
Faculty member: Archer St. Clair Harvey
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Art of Late Antiquity; Problems in Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Department of History
11 Van Dyck Hall
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-7905
[Link]
Faculty member: Stephen Reinert (focuses on undergraduate courses)
Saint Louis University
Department of History
(updated July 2006)
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
Tel: 314-977-2910
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Warren Treadgold
M.A. program in Late Ancient and Byzantine History; Ph.D. program in Medieval History (including Byzantine History)
Byzantine courses taught 2001-02: The Byzantine Historians (seminar), Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate);
2002-03: Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar); 2003-4 (on leave); 2004-05: Introduction to Byzantine History (seminar), Late Antiquity (seminar), Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate); 2005-06: Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar), Byzantine History (graduate and undergraduate);
2006-07: Introduction to Byzantine History (seminar), Byzantine History (seminar)
Department of Theological Studies
Humanities Building #124
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108-3414
Phone: 314-977-2881
[Link]
Faculty member: Cornelia Horn
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Vatican Library Manuscript Collection available on microfilm, the only complete collection in the United States; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; university library has excellent periodicals section; Lewis Annex contains resources for Early Church.
Note: Fellowships are offered by the Vatican Microfilm Library.
Southern Methodist University
Department of Art History
Meadows School of the Arts
P.O. Box 750356
Dallas, TX 75275-0356
Tel: 214-962-4359
[Link]
Faculty member: Annemarie Weyl Carr
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2001: Byzantine Art; Pilgrimage (general course on the Middle Ages); Early Christian Art; Medieval Art (Introduction to the Art of Byzantium, Islam, and the West); Art and the Italian Commune; Origins of El Greco
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Bridwell Library in Perkins School of Theology has some papyrus fragments, some facsimiles of illuminated books, and a fine research collection.
Perkins School of Theology
Kirby Hall
5915 Bishop Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75275-0133
Faculty member: Valerie Karras, assistant professor of church history
Stanford University
Department of Art and Art History
Nathan Cummings Art Building
Main Office - Room 101
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2018
Main Office Phone:650-723-3404
Faculty member: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003-04: Medieval Image Theory; Virginity and Power: Mary in the Middle Ages.
Other faculty include Katherine Miller (Medieval Mediterranean and Spain)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Post-Byzantine icons (mostly Russian)
*Prof. Pentcheva hopes to create a small graduate program in Byzantine Art
Tulane University
Department of History*
115F Hebert Building
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: 504-865-5588
[Link]
Faculty member: Kenneth W. Harl
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Survey of Byzantine History; Late Roman Empire and Byzantium and the Crusades (seminars)
Note: The department is geared toward undergraduates.
Newcomb Department of Art
Newcomb Art Department
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: 504-865-5327
[Link]
Faculty member: William Tronzo
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97,1997-98: Art 320 (Early Christian and Byzantine); Art 321 (Art and Experience in the Medieval Church); Art 682 (Use of Antiquity in the Middle Ages)
University of California, Berkeley
Department of History
(Updated July 2006)
3229 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Tel: 510-642-1971
[Link]
Faculty member: Maria Mavroudi
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Paleography and Auxiliary Sciences.
Courses taught 2002-2007: General survey of Byzantine history 330-1453; Paleography and auxiliary sciences; Dream Interpretation Before Freud; After the Roman Empire: the East; Introduction to Byzantine Studies; the Afterlife of Antiquity in the Greek and Arabic Middle Ages; Introduction to Post-Classical Greek from the Late Antique to the Byzantine Era.
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of History
Box 951473
6265 Bunche Hall,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Tel: 310-825-4601
[Link]
Faculty member: Claudia Rapp
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2000: Early Byzantine History, the Age of Justinian; Homilies of John Chrysostom; Greek Paleography and Byzantine Textual Scholarship; Age of Constantine; Alternative Approaches to Early Monasticism
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Getty Museum recently acquired the photographic collection of Andre Grabar and also contains a small number of manuscripts.
Prof. Rapp is the principal investigator of the Late Antique History and Culture Multicampus Research Group which offers opportunities for graduate study. Emily Albu, UC-Davis and Susanna Elm, UC-Berkeley, are also affiliated with this research group.
Note: The Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department offers courses in Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, and Arabic. The university hosts an annual Byzantinists' Symposium; a graduate student conference on Late Antiquity; and a twice-yearly reading group in Late Antiquity.
Department of Art History
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
Tel: 310-206-6905
Faculty member: Sharon Gerstel
University of Chicago
Department of History
(Updated July 2006)
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-702-8514
[Link]
Faculty member: Walter E. Kaegi
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2005-2006: (Autumn 05) History
22001/32001 Byzantium and Islam; History 27101/31701 Byzantine Empire 330-610. (Spring 06) History 21702/31702 Byzantine Empire 610-1025; History 16900/Classical Civilization 20900 Ancient Mediterranean, III: Late Antiquity.
Also History 998001 Graduate Seminar in Byzantine History
2006-07 (autumn 06) History 21703/31703 Byzantine Empire 1025-1453; History 25701/35701 North Africa Late Antiquity to Islam. (Spring 2007) History 16900/Classical Civilization 20900 Ancient Mediterranean, III: Late Antiquity; History
22002/32002 Byzantine Military History.
Information may also be available from David Martinez concerning his courses on papyrology, which include Byzantine materials, as well as courses of Margaret Mitchell, Divinity School, on Greek Patristics.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: small collection of Greek manuscripts, especially New Testaments; coins and archaeological objects in Oriental Institute Museum. Coptic is taught in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Byzantine Jewish History and Texts (Genizah) is also taught by Prof. Norman Golb of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Strong programs in Early Ottoman History and in Early Islamic Studies and in Late Antique Archaeology of the Near East, latter esp. with Dr. Donald Whitcomb. Byzantine Papyrology available through Prof. David Martinez, Classics Dept. Cooperation with strong program in Early Russian History and Literature. Newly appointed historian Maria Fusaro on the Venetian Empire 16th-18th c.
Note: There is a regular workshop for advanced graduate students on Late Antiquity and Byzantium and long-range plans to add a scholar for Byzantine Greek language and literature.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Classics
4080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801-3676
Tel: 217-333-1008
Faculty Member: Danuta Shanzer, Classics (updated July 2006)
Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (217) 333-1155
[Link]
Faculty member: Ralph Mathisen
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught: One class in Byzantine history offered every other year.
*Ph.D. program with a concentration in Late Antiquity
University of Kentucky
Department of Art
207 Fine Arts Building
Lexington, KY 40506
Tel: 589-257-2727
[Link]
The M.A. program is without specialization. A student may elect a specialization through coursework and M.A. thesis topic, but no formal recognition of that focus is made.
No Ph.D. program in a Byzantine field.
Faculty member: Christine Havice
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Byzantine Art; Studies in Genre: Late Antique Portraiture; Illuminated Manuscripts
Faculty member: Alice Christ
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Arts of Early Christian Rome (II-VII Century)
Note: Students can prepare for Byzantine study at the M.A. level through art, history, and language courses, but there is no formal Byzantine Studies program for graduate students.
Department of History
1715 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Tel: 859-257-6861 [Link]
Faculty member: Robert Olson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Fall of Byzantium: Emergence of Ottoman Empire
Note: No information has been received from David Olster.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: 2 Russian icons
University of Maryland
Department of History
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315
Tel: 301-405-4265
[Link]
Faculty member: Kenneth G. Holum
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-1998: Graduate reading course on Roman frontiers; Christianizing the Roman Empire (teaches Roman History and Late Antiquity) 2003: reading course on Rome's Eastern Frontier; Readings in Late Antiquity
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: pottery from medieval Palestine; Prof. Spiro's personal collection of fragments of wall and floor mosaics 3rd-9th century
University of Michigan
Department of History
(updated July 2006)
555 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Phone (734) 764-6305
Fax (734) 647-4881
Faculty member: Rudi Paul Lindner
Teaches Byzantine and Ottoman history and a graduate seminar on Byzantine and Turkic Historiography.
Faculty member: Raymond Van Dam
Teaches courses and seminars on late antiquity and early Byzantine History
Faculty member: John V. A. Fine
Department of Classics
(Updated August 2006)
2160 Angell Hall
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel:734-763-4959
Faculty member: Donald Cameron
Teaches small graduate courses in Byzantine Greek in alternate years.
Faculty member: David Potter
Gives annual seminars on the history of late antiquity
Interdepartmental Program in
Classical Art and Archaeology and History of Art
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
(updated July 2006)
434 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1390
Tel: 764-6323
[Link]
Faculty member: Thelma K. Thomas
Thelma Thomas, offers courses and seminars in Byzantine art history annually
Will be leaving in 2007
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Papyrology Room, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Museum of Art, Rare Books and Special Collections
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
(updated July 2006)
330 Folwell Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
[Link]
Faculty member: Oliver Nicholson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught:: Ages of Constantine, S. Augustine of Hippo and Justinian and Muhammad (undergraduate); Late Antique Latin (undergraduate and graduate)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: small collection of papyri, one or two of which are Late Antique. Library is good despite lack of core Byzantine scholar.
Note: Prof. Nicholson teaches Late Antiquity, but his undergraduate teaching is heavily Latin with a Byzantine twist (e.g., Adamnan, De locis sanctis). The Classics Department is very varied, and the campus is immense, with a thriving Center for Mediaeval Studies.
Faculty member: Philip Sellew
Teaches Coptic and Greek patristics.
Department of Art History
417 Heller Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-6384
Faculty member: Sheila McNally
Teaches courses on Roman art and archeology with special focus on late antiquity
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Art History and Archaeology
(Updated August 2006)
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65311
Tel: 573-882-6711
[Link]
Faculty member: Marcus Rautman
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology; Late Antique Art and Archaeology
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Department of Music, Center for the Humanities
(Updated August 2006)
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
Tel: 314-516-5980
[Link]
Faculty member: Diane Touliatos
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography; Comparative Medieval Music: Western and Byzantine Music; 2001 Women Composers in Ancient Greece and Byzantium; independent directed studies in medieval Byzantine music
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: microfilms in medieval Byzantine music
University of North Carolina
Department of Art
(Updated July 2006)
111 Hayes Art Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
Tel: 919-962-2015
Link
Faculty member: Jaroslav Folda
Courses:
2004-2006: (Art 264) in Medieval Art; (Art 351) on the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land; (Art 471) on Art in Northern Europe, 1300 - 1550; the End of the Middle Ages
Seminars:
Spring 2004: Seminar (Art 961) in Medieval Icon Painting: Byzantine, Crusader and Italian: The Problem of Chrysography.
Fall 2005: Seminar (Art 961) in Medieval Ornament.
Fall 2007 (projected) Seminar (Art 962) The Crusader Artistic Impact on the Italian Maniera Greca
Effective 1 July 2008, Jaroslav Folda will retire as N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art at UNC.
Faculty member: Dorothy Verkerk
Titles of Byzantine-related courses taught 1998-99: Medieval Architecture (intermediate level undergraduate); Medieval Ivories (seminar);1999-00: Ornament (seminar)
Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
Tel: 919-962-7191
[Link]
Faculty member: Carolyn L. Connor
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-2000: Art of Mosaic; Topography of Constantinople; Art in the Age of Justinian and Theodora; Women of Byzantium; Early Christian and Byzantine Art; Byzantine Civilization
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Ackland Museum has a few small Byzantine objects, and the Duke University Library has a collection of Byzantine manuscripts.
Note: There is a Medieval Studies minor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; it includes Byzantine Studies; the graduate Medieval Studies minor can be applied to Byzantine Studies.
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History of Art
(Updated July 2006)
Meyerson Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
[Link]
Faculty member: Robert Ousterhout (beginning January 2007)
Robert Ousterhout teaches art and architectural history courses, including Introduction to Byzantine Art and Architecture; Constantinople and Medieval Urbanism; Historic Building Technologies; Arts of Cappadocia; Iconography of Medieval Jerusalem.
Note: Penn has exchange agreements with Princeton, Bryn Mawr, and Delaware, and Penn students can take courses at these universities. Penn also has a program for Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World (note website), which includes Byzantine and Islamic.
Additional faculty: Elizabeth Bolman (Coptic and Egyptian art, Temple University) is adjunct faculty. Robert Maxwell (Medieval Art, History of Art Department, Penn) taught Intro to Byzantine Art in 2004-05. C.L. Striker (History of Art Department, Penn) is retired.
There are possibilities for participation in archaeological fieldwork through AAMW program.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum collection includes Byzantine objects and papyri from Egypt and the Middle East.
University of Virginia
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 434-924-3741
Faculty member: Robert Louis Wilken
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Eastern Christianity
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: very small icon collection in Bayly Museum
University of Washington
Art Division
Seattle, WA 98195
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Faculty member: Anna Kartsonis
Note: No information has been received.
University of Wisconsin
Department of History
3211 Mosse Humanities Building
455 N Park St
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-263-1800
Faculty member: Paul Stephenson (will be on leave 2007-8)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2002-03, 2003-04: Intro to Byzantine history and civilization: the Middle Byzantine Period; 2003-04: Art and Ceremony in Byzantium. In 2002-03 Profs. Stephenson and Dale ran a monthly workshop funded by the Mellon foundation entitled: "The Byzantine Commonwealth: East Roman culture and its legacy in the modern world". In 2003-04 the subject was "Byzantium and the West".
Department of Art History
232 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-263-2340
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Faculty member: Thomas E. Dale
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003-04: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture;
Icon: The Holy Image in Eastern Orthodox Culture (graduate seminar focusing on icons in the Elvehjem Museum collection)
Other related faculty: Prof. Judith Kornblatt, Slavic Languages and Literature, 2002-03: Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy in the Global Context. Christopher Livanos, Comparative Literature.
Other University resources in the Byzantine field: Icon collection (mostly Russian), limited coin and manuscript collections, library has a strong working Byzantine collection built up over much of the 20th c. by A. A. Vasiliev and John Barker, especially strong in Slavic, East-Central and South-East European history and literature.
Yale University
Department of History of Art
(Updated July 2006)
56 High Street
P.O. Box 208272
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-2667
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Robert S. Nelson, since 2005-2006
Graduate Courses taught 2005-2006: Byzantine Art and Ritual; Medieval Visuality
Courses to be taught in 2006-7: Icons.
Department of History
P.O. Box 208324
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-1366
Faculty member: Youval Rotman
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: some Byzantine manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book Library
Department of Religious Studies
451 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: 203-432-0828
Faculty member: Stephen Davis (on leave 2006-7)
Teaches courses on Christianity in late antiquity, with a special focus on Coptic Egypt
Bentley Layton
Teaches courses on late antique Christianity and Coptic language
Scholarly Activities
- Scholarly Meetings
- Publications
- Fellowship Reports
- Project Grant Reports
- Greek Summer School
- Byzantine Numismatics and Sigillography Summer Program
Resources
- General Library Collections
- Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives
- Byzantine Photograph Collections
- Index of Christian Art
Online Resources
- Hagiography Database Project
- Translations of Byzantine Saints' Lives
- Dissertations in North America
- Graduate Programs in North America
- Bibliography on Women in Byzantium