Fellows in Byzantine Studies
2007 Fellows in Byzantine Studies: Cornelia Horn, Alessandra Bucossi, Philip Venticinque, Manolis Patedakis, Elizabeth Fisher, Yuri Pyatnitsky, Alice-Mary Talbot (Director of Byzantine Studies), Örgü Dalgiç, Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Börje Bydén, Stratis Papaioannou (Joint appointment)
2008/09
Fellows
- Rina Avner, Israel Antiquities Authority, Academic Year
The Church of the Kathisma on the Jerusalem-Bethlehem Road: Archaeological, Art Historical and Historical Study - Marina Bazzani, University of Oxford, Academic Year
A Literary, Linguistic and Historical Analysis of the Poems of Manuel Philes - Myriam Hecquet-Devienne, CNRS - Université de Lille 3, Academic Year
Byzantine Editors and History of Text Transmission: Inquiry on a Crucial Period for the Aristotelian Corpus - Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University, Spring
Ancient Greek and Christian Rhetorical Tradition in the Work of Ioannes Sikeliotes - Isabella Sandwell, University of Bristol, Spring
Pragmatics, Preaching and Social Change in Late Antiquity: The Sermons of John Chrysostom
Junior Fellows
- Fotini Kondyli, University of Birmingham, Academic Year
Late Byzantine Rural Sites in the North Aegean: Their Archaeology and Distribution Patterns - Yuliya Minets, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Academic Year
Constructing Ideas of Christian Life: The Strategies of Interpretation of the Biblical Texts by Palladius of Hellenopolis - Vitalijs Permjakovs, University of Notre Dame, Academic Year
The Origins and Evolution of the Byzantine Rite for the Consecration of Churches - Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Brown University, Academic Year
Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature
Summer Fellows
- Mine Esmer, Istanbul Technical University
Proposals for the Conservation of the Middle Byzantine Period Monuments of Istanbul and their Neighborhoods - Réka Forrai, Central European University, Budapest
Greek in the West: The Medieval Papacy and the Western Translation Projects - Michael John Jeffreys, University of Oxford and King's College, London
Lead Seals in Dumbarton Oaks and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire - Andreas Rhoby, Institut für Byzanzforschung, Vienna
Byzantine Epigrams on Icons and Objects of Minor Arts - Ufuk Serin, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Late Antique and Byzantine Rural Settlements in Caria (Western Asia Minor) in the Light of New Archaeological Evidence - Antonios Tsakalos, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
The Rock-Cut Monastery of Karanlık Kilise in the Göreme Valley: Monasticism, Art and Patronage in Byzantine Cappadocia - Ivan Yordanov, Shoumen University
Corpus of the Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria, Volume 3
2007/08
Fellows
- Alessandra Bucossi, Genova, Italy, Academic Year
Andronikos Kamateros' Sacred Arsenal: Critical edition, translation and commentary - Börje Bydén, Göteborg University, Fall
Theodore Metochites' Commentary on Aristotle's De anima: Critical Edition with an English Translation - Elizabeth Fisher, The George Washington University, Academic Year
The Tradition of the Byzantine Translator's Preface - Cornelia Horn, Saint Louis University, Academic Year
Synergetical Relationships: Christian Apocrypha and Early Islamic Literature in Dialogue - Nadezhda F. Kavrus-Hoffmann, Glenmont, NY, Fall
Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America - Emmanouil Patedakis, University of Crete, Academic Year
Critical Edition with introduction and commentary of the unpublished works of Athanasios I, patriarch of Constantinople - Yuri Pyatnitsky, The State Hermitage Museum, Academic Year
Byzantine Icons Collection in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Junior Fellows
- Örgü Dalgiç, New York University, Academic Year
Late Antique Floor Mosaics in Constantinople before the Great Palace - Philip Venticinque, The University of Chicago, Academic Year
Common Causes: the Social World of Guilds and Associations in Roman and Late Antique Egypt
2006/07
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Florin Curta, University of Florida, Fall
Greece in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500 to ca. 1050): An Economic and Social Perspective - Stephen E. Gersh, University of Notre Dame, Spring
The Byzantine Proclus - Dimitri Korobeinikov, University of Oxford, Academic Year
Byzantium and the Turks from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Centuries - Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University, Academic Year
The Churches of Syrian Antioch: Christian Sites of Worship in the City and its Suburbs (350-600 CE) - Arietta S. Papaconstantinou, Collège de France - C.N.R.S., Academic Year
The Rise and Fall of Coptic: A Cultural History of the Language and its Speakers - Christos Simelidis, University of Oxford, Academic Year
A Critical Edition of the Carmina of St. Gregory of Nazianzus for the Corpus Christianorum Series - Denis F. Sullivan, University of Maryland, Academic Year
The Life of St. Basil the Younger - Alan G. Walmsley, The University of Copenhagen, Academic Year
The Levantine Economy, ca. 565-865 CE: New Archaeological Perspectives
Junior Fellows
- Koray S. Durak, Harvard University, Academic Year
Networks of Communications between the Byzantines and the Muslims from the Mid-Ninth Century to the Arrival of the Crusaders - Pagona Papadopoulou, Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Academic Year
Coin Circulation and Monetary Affairs in the Balkans before and after the Fourth Crusade (1092-1261) - Suna Çagaptay-Arikan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Academic Year
Visualizing the Cultural Transition in Bithynia (1300-1402): Architecture, Correlative Spaces, and Urbanism
Summer Fellows
- Ivan Biliarsky, Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
A Glossary of the Juridical Terms in Mediaeval Bulgaria - Eugenia Chalkia, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
Jewellery in the Byzantine Museum of Athens: The Mytilene Treasure - Ksenia I. Lobovikova, Russian Federal Professional Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg
Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and Islam: Political and Theological Aspects of his Attitudes toward Islam - Donald A. McColl, Washington College
Signs of the Times: The Cleveland Marbles - Edmund C. Ryder, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Portable Micromosaic Icons of the Late Byzantine Period - Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Brown University
The Cult of St. Febronia: From Nisibis to Rome - Oğuz Tekin, University of Istanbul
Byzantine Coins Found During the Excavations at Perge
Visiting Scholars
2005/06
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Victor Alexandrov, Budapest, Hungary, Fall
Byzantine Dimension of the Canon Law Corpus of the Orthodox Slavs and Romanians - Zhiqiang Chen, Nankai University, Spring
The Byzantines in the Chinese Eyes: Translation and Commentary of Relevant Ancient and Medieval Chinese Texts - Peter John Heather, University of Oxford, Fall
Migration and Development in First Millennium Europe - Marilyn E. Heldman, University of Missouri,St. Louis, Fall
Early Byzantine Miniatures Revealed - Sergey Ivanov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Spring
Things and Places Speaking of Themselves: From Rome to Byzantium - Apostolos Karpozilos, University of Ioannina, Academic Year
Suicide in Byzantium - Dirk Krausmüller, Queen's University, Belfast, Academic Year
The Constantinopolitan Monastery of Panagiou in its Eleventh-century Context - Yoram Tsafrir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Academic Year
The History and Archaeology of Bet Shean (Scythopolis) from the Hellenistic to the Medieval Periods: Introductory Volume (Series of Final Reports) - Tomasz Waliszewski, Warsaw University, Fall
Growth or Decline?: Agriculture and Village Life in the Late Antique Near East (IIIrd-VIIIth c. A.D.) - Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California, Spring
Memorials Transformed: Funerary Monuments. Church Space and Saints' Cults in Late Antiquity
Junior Fellows
- Paroma Chatterjee, The University of Chicago, Academic Year
The Politics of Narrative: The Byzantine and Italian Narrative Icons - Jon Kyle Harper, Harvard University, Academic Year
Slavery in Late Antiquity - Maureen Anne O'Brien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academic Year
Art and Text in the Vienna Genesis - Vessela Valiavitcharska-Marcum, The University of Texas, Austin, Spring
Rhetoric and Poetry in Byzantine Homiletics
2004/05
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Elizabeth S. Bolman, Temple University, Academic Year
The Milk of Salvation?: Constructions of the Nursing Virgin Mary in Eastern Christian Art - Daniel F. Caner, University of Connecticut, Academic Year
Wealth, Charity and Christian Imagination in the Early Byzantine Period - Andrew Crislip, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Fall
Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity - Ivan Jordanov, Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Academic Year
The Prosopography of Bulgaria under Byzantine Rule 971-1185 - Claudia Rapp, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring
A Historical and Literary Commentary on the Vita of Epiphanius of Salamis - Alexander L. Saminski, St. Andrei Roublev Museum, Moscow, Academic Year
Antioch (969-1268): Byzantine Provincial Art from Georgia and Greek Illuminated Manuscripts - Rustam M. Shukurov, Moscow State University, Academic Year
Latent Turkification of Byzantium (ca. 1071-1461)
Junior Fellows
- Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Harvard University, Academic Year
Eustathios of Thessalonike: A Literary Profile Based on a New Edition, Translation and Commentary of Five Opuscula - Niels Henrik Gaul, Bonn University, Academic Year
Authorship, Audience, and Performance of High-Brow Literature in Late Byzantium (c.1250-c.1350) - Günder Varinlioğlu, University of Pennsylvania, Academic Year
The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: Limestone Villages of Southeastern Isauria
Summer Fellows
- Marcello Garzaniti, University of Florence
From Holy Land to Holy Russia. The Pilgrimage Tale in Medieval Rus' and Muscovy - Stefan Heidemann, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Catalogue of the Christian Oriental Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection - Asen Kirin, The University of Georgia
Sacred Art, Secular Context. Loan Exhibition from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks - Sergio La Porta, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Armenian Scholia on the Works Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite - Tassos C. Papacostas, King's College London
The History and Architecture of the Monastery of St. John Chrysostom at Koutsovendis, Cyprus - Maria G. Parani, Nicosia, Cyprus
The Monastery of St. Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis (Cyprus): The Wall-Paintings - Claudia Sode, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Catalogue of the Christian Oriental Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection - Emilie van Opstall, University of Amsterdam
John Geometres: An Edition, Translation and Commentary of his Poems in Hexameters and Elegiacs
2003/04
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Ralf Behrwald, Universität Bamberg, Academic Year
The City as Museum?: Concepts of Urbs Roma in late Antiquity - Maria Evangelatou, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Academic Year
The Illustration of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters: Layers of Meaning and their Sources - Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Academic Year
Funeral Rites in the Byzantine Tradition, the Fourth to Sixteenth Centuries: The History of Liturgical Units and their Theological Interpretation - John Monfasani, University at Albany (SUNY), Spring
The Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century - Margaret E. Mullett, Queen's University, Belfast, Fall
The Life of Cyril Phileotes by Nicholas Kataskepenos - Lioba Theis, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Academic Year
Light and Lighting in Early Christian and Byzantine Churches
Junior Fellows
- Vasileios Marinis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Academic Year
The Monastery tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople - Alicia Simpson, King's College London, Fall
Studies on the Composition of Niketas Choniates' Historia - Gregory A. Smith, Harvard University, Academic Year
A Cultural History of the Soul in Late Antiquity - Alicia Walker, Harvard University, Spring
Insatiable Enjoyment: Islamic Elements in Middle Byzantine Secular Art and Aesthetics
Summer Fellows
- Pietro Bortone, Princeton University / Oxford University
The History of Greek Prepositions - Catherine Cubitt, The University of York
The Monothelite Controversy of the Seventh Century - Antonia Giannouli, University of Cyprus
Byzantine Commentaries on Ecclesiastical Hymns - Oren Gutfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Cardo and the Nea Church on the Southwestern Hill of Jerusalem: A Stratigraphic and Architectural Analysis - Mara Mason, Ca'Foscari University, Venice
The Wall Mosaics of San Giusto in Trieste and their Relationships with Byzantine Art - Fatih Onur, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Military Reforms of Anastasios I, on the Basis of a New Inscription from Perge - Anthousa Papagiannaki, University of Oxford
Byzantine Ivory and Bone Caskets with Secular Decoration, 9th to 12th Centuries - Denis M. Searby, University of Stockholm
A Critical Edition and Translation of Demetrios Kydones' Apology for Thomas of Aquinas
2002/03
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Franz Alto Bauer, Istituto Archeologico Germanico, Rome, Fall
Gifts as a Means of Demonstrating Cultural Superiority: Byzantium and the Ottonian Empire - Joachim Henning, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Academic Year
The Franks and Byzantium: Economic Roots and Technological Basis of Agrarian Structures and Ruling Forms in Early Medieval Europe's West and East. A Comparative Study Based on Archaeological Sources - Sofia Kotzabassi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Spring
The Encomia of Saint Theodosia of Constantinople. A Critical Edition and Commentary - Emmanuel Papoutsakis, Athens, Greece, Academic Year
The Syriac Literary Background of Romanos the Melodist - Tatiana Pentkovskaya, Moscow State University, Academic Year
The Life of Basil the Younger (BHG 263). The Oldest Version in the Byzantine and Slavic Tradition: Critical Edition and Word Index of the Parallel Slavic and Greek Texts - Linda Safran, The Catholic University of America, Academic Year
Art and Identity in Medieval Southern Italy
Junior Fellows
- Nikolas Bakirtzis, Princeton University, Academic Year
Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikion near Serres: A Topography of Monastic Life - Jonathan P. Conant, Harvard University, Academic Year
Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines: Romanitas and the Cultural Transformation of the North African Elite, c. 400-c. 650 - Aaron P. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Academic Year
Ethnic Argumentation in Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelica
Summer Fellows
- Francesca Dell'Acqua, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Glass in the Architectural Decoration of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture: The Influence on the Medieval West - Evangelia Hadjitryphonos, European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, Thessalonike
Architecture of the Church of Hagia Aikaterini in Thessaloniki and Architecture of the Church of Moni Vlatadon - Peter Hatlie, University of Dallas in Rome
Monasticism in Constantinople, c. 450-850 - Ivan Jordanov, Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Corpus of the Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria, Part 1: The Byzantine Seals with Geographical Names - Michaela Konrad, Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich
The Northern Necropolis of Resafa: Burial Customs on the Syrian Border from the Third to the Sixth Century A.D. and the Evidence for the Local History of Resafa - Jaclyn L. Maxwell, Western Michigan University
Preaching to the Converted: John Chrysostom and his Audience in Antioch - Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin
The Manuscripts of Angelos Vergecios: Art, Humanism and Byzantine Natural History in Sixteenth-Century France - Vladimir Vavrinek, Slavonic Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
The Breakdown of the Unity of the Classical World and the Formation of Medieval Eastern Europe
2001/02
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Nicholas Constas, Harvard University, Fall
Proclus of Constantinople and the Cult of the Virgin in the Fifth Century - Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University of Maryland, Spring
Painting the Sacred House: An Examination of Village Churches and Lay Piety in Late Byzantium - Dorotei N. Getov, Ivan Dujcev Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies, Sofia, Academic Year
Study of Related Literature for a Comprehensive Catalogue of the 150 Greek Liturgical Manuscripts in the Library of the Ivan Dujcev Centre - Maria G. Parani, Nicosia, Cyprus, Academic Year
Realia in Byzantine Legal Documents, 11th-15th Centuries - Aleksei Pentkovsky, Moscow Theological Academy, Academic Year
Byzantine Monastic Liturgical Typika (IX-XIV c.) - Ioanna Rapti, Paris, France, Spring
Armenian Liturgical Illumination: King Hethum's Lectionary (Matenadaran 979) - Peter van Minnen, Leuven University, Fall
Contextualizing Early Christianity in Egypt
Junior Fellows
- Elena N. Boeck, Yale University, Academic Year
The Art of Being Byzantine: History, Ritual, and Visual Narrative in the Madrid Skylitzes - Sarah T. Brooks, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Academic Year
Commemoration of the Dead: Late Byzantine Tomb Decoration (Mid-13th to Mid-15th Centuries) - Cecily J. Hilsdale, University of Chicago, Academic Year
Diplomacy by Design: Rhetorical Strategies of the Byzantine Gift - Christopher MacEvitt, Princeton University, Academic Year
Crusaders and Local Christian Communities, 1097-1187 - Warren T. Woodfin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Academic Year
Late Byzantine Embroidered Vestments and the Iconography of Sacerdotal Power
Summer Fellows
- Margarethe Billerbeck, University of Fribourg
The General Introduction to a Critical Edition of Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnika - Florin Curta, University of Florida
Barbarian Ethnicities and the Early Byzantine Frontier (ca. 400-600) - Gregorios A. Ioannides, Galata, Cyprus
The Byzantine Liturgical Tradition in the Geographical Area of Cyprus: Euchology Manuscripts from Cyprus - Olga Karagiorgou, University of Oxford
The Sigillographic Corpus of the Theme of Hellas - Peter Martens, University of Notre Dame
The Philocalia in the Philosophic Life of the Cappadocians - Victor Spinei, Institutul de Arheologie, Iasi, Romania
The Cumans and their Contacts with South-Eastern European Peoples in the 11th-14th Centuries - Antonios Tsakalos, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
The Rock-Cut Monastic Complex of Karanlik Kilise in the Göreme Valley: Religious Art, Secular Donors - Diana G. Wright, Washington, DC
The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio Vol. 1: Dispacci from Nauplion, 1479-1483
Visiting Scholar
2000/01
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Gunnar Brands, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Spring
Late Antique Cities of Northeastern Syria and their Architecture - Leslie Brubaker, The University of Birmingham, Spring
Iconoclasm - Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, University of Athens, Fall
The Mural Paintings in the Narthex of the Church of the Virgin Phorbiotissa at Asinou, Cyprus (1332-1333) - Hassan S. Khalilieh, University of Haifa, Academic Year
Maritime Law in the Mediterranean during the 8th-11th Centuries: Islamic vis à vis Byzantine Laws - a Comparative Study - Maria Mavroudi, Stuttgart, Germany, Academic Year
Three Catalogues on Graeco-Arabica, 7th-16th Century: A List of Bilingual Individuals; A List of Bilingual Manuscripts; A List of Translations from Arabic into Greek - Franz Tinnefeld, Universität München, Fall
A Historical Commentary to the Last 110 Letters (1387-1396) of the Byzantine Statesman, Demetrios Kydones
Junior Fellows
- Karin Krause, Universität München, Fall
The Illustration of the Homilies of John Chrysostom in the 11th and 12th Centuries - Caroline Macé, Université Catholique de Louvain, Academic Year
The Construction of a Cultural Identity in Byzantium: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen - Bissera V. Pentcheva, Harvard University, Academic Year
Images of the Virgin and their Public in Middle Byzantine Constantinople - Alexander Rentel, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Academic Year
A Critical Edition of the 14th Century Patriarchal Liturgical Diataxis of Dimitrios Gemistos - Pablo Ubierna, University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Academic Year
The Byzantine Apocalypses from 7th to 12th Centuries
Summer Fellows
- Massimo Bernabò, Università di Firenze
The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of Job Vat. Gr. 749 and Marc. 538 - Smiljka Gabelić, University of Belgrade
The Monastery at Konce - Ferhan Kırlıdökme, Ankara University
Laonikos Chalkokondyles: Relations between Byzantium and the Ottoman State (1421-1463), Translation and Commentary of the Demonstrations of Histories, Books V-X - Richard Layton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Redefining Virtue: Didymus the Blind and Ascetic Scholasticism in Late Antique Alexandria - Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, University of Cyprus
The Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas: A Study of its Sources and Nature with Relation to Byzantine and Western Historiography - Maria Panayotidi-Kesisoglou, University of Athens
Art in the Villages and the Problem of Local Workshops - Werner Seibt, Universität Wien
Byzantine Sigillography
Visiting Scholar
1999/00
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Clive Foss, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Academic Year
Justinian's Ruling Class/ Syria in Transition 550-750 AD - Eurydice S. Georgantelis, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Fall
Coin Finds from Philippi - Kiril Pavlikianov, University of Sofia, Academic Year
The Byzantine, Iberian, Serbian and Bulgarian Aristocracy in the Athonite Monasteries (950-1460) - Alain Touwaide, Madrid, Spain, Academic Year
Medicine and Society in Byzantium (1261-1453) - Witold Witakowski, Uppsala University, Academic Year
Syriac Short Chronicles - Slobodan Ćurčić, Princeton Univrsity, Spring
Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent
Junior Fellows
- Dimiter G. Angelov, Harvard University, Academic Year
Imperial Ideology and Power in the Late Byzantine Empire, 1204-ca.1328 - Anastasios George Papademetriou, Princeton University, Academic Year
Greek Elites as Christians and Converts in the Ottoman Society: 1453-1600 - Efstratios Papaioannou, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien, Academic Year
Michael Psellos' Personality in the Light of his Correspondence and a Critical Edition of his Letters - Konstantinos Smyrlis, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Academic Year
The Role of the Great Monasteries in the Byzantine Economy, from the 10th to the Middle of the 14th Century
Summer Fellows
- Sümer Atasoy, University of Istanbul
Bronze Lamps in the Istanbul Archeological Museum: A Catalogue - Sarah Guberti Bassett, Wayne State University
The Reuse of Antiquities in the Urban Decoration of Constantinople, 4th-6th Centuries - Salvatore Cosentino, Università di Cagliari
Naumachica. A Byzantine Literature - Miodrag Marković, University of Belgrade
The Monastery of St. Nikita near Skoplje: History, Architecture and Wall Paintings - Ufuk Serin, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (Rome)
The Religious Architecture in Iasos (of Caria) in the Early-Christian and Proto-Byzantine Ages in Relation to the Urban Development of the Site in the Same Period - Tatiana Tsarevskaia, Novgorod State Museum
The Frescoes of the Church of St. Theodore Stratilates in Novgorod and the 'Expressive' Trend of the Byzantine Painting in the Second Half of the 14th Century
Visiting Scholar
1998/99
Fellows
- Jonathan Bardill, University of Oxford, Academic Year
The Church of St. Polyeuktos in Constantinople - Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, Fall
Gift Exchange between Byzantium and Islam - Zbigniew T. Fiema, Salt Lake City, Utah, Academic Year
The Byzantine Period in Petra and Southern Jordan: New Archaeological and Historical Evidence - Vojislav Korać, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Spring
The Architecture in the Transition Zones between Byzantium and the West, 9th to 14th Centuries. Program and Achievements - Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Academic Year
Religious Motivations for the Composition of Saints' Lives in the Early Christian East - William L. North, University of California, Berkeley, Academic Year
Oikonomia and Dispensatio in Dialogue: A Comparative Case-Study of Ecclesiastical Mercy and Justice in Byzantium and the West - Brigitte Pitarakis, Paris, France, Academic Year
Byzantine Bronze Pectoral Reliquary Crosses - Denis F. Sullivan, University of Maryland, College Park, Academic Year
John Doxopatres' Commentaries on Hermogenes' Peri staseon and Peri ideon: A Critical Edition, Translation and Analysis
Junior Fellows
- Michael Gaddis, Princeton University, Academic Year
Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire - Florent Heintz, Harvard University, Academic Year
Magic in the Late Antique Circus - Asen Kirin, Princeton University, Academic Year
The Rotunda of St. George in Sofia: History, Architecture, and Mural Decoration - ca. 300-1600 - Holger Klein, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Fall
Perceptions of Byzantium in Romanesque Europe: Byzantine Cross Reliquaries and their Impact on the Artistic Production of the West
Summer Fellows
- Kate Cooper, University of Manchester
The Roman Cult of Eastern Martyrs: 400-700 - Kristoffel Demoen, Universiteit Gent
John Geometres and John Mauropous: Rhetoric and Literature from Encyclopedism to the Pre-Renaissance - Eurydice S. Georgantelis, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Coins and Routes in Western Thrace, 490-1204 A.D. and the Via Egnatia and the Regional Currencies of the Byzantine Empire - Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at Boulder
Munera Immensa: The Role of Subsidies in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Foreign Policy - Mikaël Nichanian, Université de Paris IV
Byzantine Elites and Imperial Power between the Seventh and the Ninth Century - Arietta S. Papaconstantinou, Université de Paris XII
The Cult of Saints in Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt: The Contribution of Greek and Coptic Papyrological and Epigraphical Evidence - Rosemary Thoonen Dubowchik, Southern Connecticut State University
Sacred Music of the Byzantine Empire: A Handbook
Visiting Scholar
1997/98
Fellows
- Srdjan V. Djurić, University of Toronto, Academic Year
Icons of Chilandar from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century - Lynda Garland, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Academic Year
Byzantine Humour and its Social Context AD 527-1453 - Kenneth G. Holum, University of Maryland, Academic Year
Caesarea's Fortune: The Transformation of a Classical City in Late Antiquity - Corinne Jouanno, Université de Caen, Fall
Alexander the Great at Byzantium - Jodi Magness, Tufts University, Academic Year
The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine - Radivoj Radić, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Academic Year
Fear in Late Byzantium
Junior Fellows
- Todd M. Hickey, University of Chicago, Academic Year
The Private Economies of the Egyptian oikoi of the Flavii Apiones - Veronica G. Kalas, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Academic Year
The Rock-Cut Architecture of the Peristrema Valley, Western Cappadocia, in the Context of the Byzantine Revival of Asia Minor, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries - Leonora Neville, Princeton University, Academic Year
The Formation and Potential Influence of Local Provincial Elites in Pre-Komnenian Hellas and Peloponnese - Carl Pearson, Harvard University, Academic Year
Natural Philosophy and Christianity in John Philoponus' De opifico mundi
Special Museum Fellow
Summer Fellows
- Melek Delilbaşi, University of Ankara
Turhan Bey: Byzantium and Sphrantzes - Kirsten Krumeich, Bonn, Germany
Spätantiker Baudekor aus Oxyrhynchos: Untersuchungen zur lokalen Skulpturproduktion einer mittelägyptischen Polis - Andreas Nicolaides, Université de Provence
Church of the Panagia Phorviotissa of Asinou, Nikitari, Cyprus and its Wallpaintings - Oğuz Tekin, Istanbul University
Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Yapi Kredi Museum (Istanbul) - Christine Vogt, Paris, France
Publication of the Byzantine Glazed Ware from the Musée du Louvre and the Musée de Sèvres - Hayri Fehmi Yılmaz, Istanbul University
Archaeological Study of the Mangana Palace and Surrounding Area, Byzantine Period
Visiting Scholar
1996/97
Fellows
- Charles E. Barber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring
The Theodore Psalter - Jakov Nikolaevič Ljubarskij, University of St. Petersburg, Spring
A Commentary on the Alexiad of Anna Comnena - William F. Macomber, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Academic Year
A Bohairic-English Dictionary - Sophia Mergiali, University of Crete, Academic Year
Diplomacy during the Late Byzantine Period: Palaeologan Emperors as Ambassadors in the West - Lida Miraj, Institute of Archaeology, Durrës, Academic Year
Some Aspects of the Early Christian Period in Dyrrachium - Daniel Sahas, University of Waterloo, Fall
Names, Epithets and Curses. Name-calling of Muslims in the Byzantine Anti-Islamic Literature - Nicolas Schidlovsky, New York, Fall
Hymns of the Early Slavic Sticherarion: Emerging Perspectives from a Study in Progress
Junior Fellows
- John W. Birkenmeier, The Catholic University of America, Academic Year
The Development of the Comnenian Army - Barbara Crostini Lappin, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Spring
The Katechetikon of Paul of Evergetis (d. 1054) - Leslie Dossey, Harvard University, Academic Year
Rural Unrest in Late Roman North Africa - Stephen J. Shoemaker, Duke University, Academic Year
Mary and the Discourse of Orthodoxy: The Dormition Legends and Ideological Boundaries in Late Antiquity
Summer Fellows
- Costas N. Constantinides, University of Ioannina
Byzantine Gardens in Medieval Greek Secular Texts - Marina Falla Castelfranchi, Università di Chieti
La Committenza dell'Icona di San Pietro at Sinai and Cicli della Vita di San Nicola nell'Arte Bizantina dell'Italia Meridionale - Marina Falla Castelfranchi
- Peter Doimi De Frankopan, Oxford University
Aspects of the Foreign Policy of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) - Vera Guruljova, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Byzantine Coins of the XII-XV Centuries - Istvan Perczel, Central European University, Budapest
Research on the Chronology of the Corpus Dionysiacum - Alessandra Ricci, Bilkent University
Late Antique and Early Byzantine Palaces and Villas in Constantinople: New City and New Countryside (ca. AD 330-ca AD 850) - Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University
Allegory in the Byzantine Novel - Michael P. Speidel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Late-Roman and Early-Byzantine Guard
Visiting Scholar
1995/96
Exchange Scholars
Fellows
- Theodora Antonopoulou, University of Oxford, Academic Year
A Critical Edition of the Homilies of the Emperor Leo VI - Martin Dennert, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Academic Year
Byzantine Cameos - Smiljka Gabelić, University of Belgrade, Academic Year
Hagiographical Cycles and the Problem of their Emergence - Stefan R. Hauser, Freie Universität Berlin, Academic Year
Anab as-Safina. Late Roman to Early Islamic Tombs in Syria - Eric A. Ivison, British School at Athens, Academic Year
Byzantine Urban Archaeology in the Athenian Agora: The Medieval Hephaisteion - Alexander L. Lingas, University of British Columbia, Academic Year
Music and Liturgy in Late Byzantium: The Divine Office at Hagia Sophia, Thessalonica - Sally McKee, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Spring
Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Venetian Crete During the Fourteenth Century - David Olster, University of Kentucky, Academic Year
Classical Ethnography and the Third Race - Robert Rodgers, University of Vermont, Spring
Studies on the Greek Geoponica: Preparation of Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary
Junior Fellows
- Jane Baun, Princeton University, Academic Year
The Apocalypse of Anastasia in its Middle Byzantine Context - Caren Calendine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Academic Year
The Nature and Recognition of Sanctity in the Byzantine Empire
Summer Fellows
- Federica Ciccolella, University of Turin
Anacreontic Poetry of the 5th and 6th Centuries: John of Gaza and George the Grammarian - Peter Hatlie, University of Groningen
Byzantine Epistolography: Past Perspectives and New Directions - Margaret E. Mullett, The Queen's University of Belfast
The Literary Activity of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) - Gregory A. Myers, University of British Columbia
The Paleoslavonic Kondakar: Constantinople's Legacy of Kievan Rus - Andreas Nicolaides, Université de Provence
Apsidal Iconography in the Painted Churches of Cyprus During the Middle Byzantine Period - Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College
Late Antique Burial Practices in the Balkan Peninsula - Victor Spinei, Institutul de Arheologie, Iasi¸ Romania
The Byzantine Pottery from the Lower Danube in the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries - Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul Universitesi
The Last Five Years' Archaeological Findings in Istanbul from the Byzantine Period
Venetian Exchange Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Visiting Scholar
1994/95
Fellows
- Melek Delilbaşi, University of Ankara, Academic Year
Turhan Bey: Byzantium and Sphrantzes - Mary-Lyon Dolezal, University of Oregon, Academic Year
The Middle Byzantine Lectionary: Representations of Liturgical Ritual through Text and Image - Peter John Heather, University College London, Academic Year
Byzantium and the West, c. 475-600 - Sergej P. Karpov, The Moscow Lomonosov State University, Academic Year
Pontic Hellenism between Latins and Tartars: The Case Study of Tana in the Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries - Gennadii G. Litavrin, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Spring
Village and Power in Byzantium
Junior Fellows
- Amy L. Cassens Papalexandrou, Princeton University, Academic Year
The Church of the Dormition of the Virgin of Skripou - Lynn Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Academic Year
The Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar and the Iconography of Kingship - Demetrius Kyritses, Harvard University, Academic Year
A History of the Byzantine Aristocracy in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries - Maria Mavroudi, Harvard University, Academic Year
The Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book of Dream Interpretation and its Arabic Sources - Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Harvard University, Academic Year
The Venice Alexander Romance, Hellenic Institute Cod. Gr. 5: A Study of Alexander the Great in Byzantine Art - Stephan Westphalen, University of Freiburg, Fall
The Odalar Camii in Istanbul: Architecture and Wall Paintings of a Middle Byzantine Church
Summer Fellows
- Margaret B. Alexiou, Harvard University
Byzantine Twelfth-Century Beggar Poetry - Francesco D'Aiuto, University of Rome
The Imperial Menologium of Michael IV the Paphlagonian: Publication of Unedited Texts and Global Study of the Collection - Christine Kondoleon, Harvard University
Mosaics of the Dermech Sector of Carthage - Ayyüz Toydemir, Istanbul Technical University
Ceramic Findings of Kalenderhane Mosque at Vezneciler
Summer Seminars
1993/94
Collège de France Exchange Scholar
Fellows
- William Adler, North Carolina State University, Academic Year
Chronographic Schools in Byzantium and Syria - Gunnar Brands, Free University of Berlin, Academic Year
Architecture and Architectural Decoration of Resafa-Sergiopolis and Northern Mesopotamia - Alexandra A. Chekalova, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Academic Year
The Senatorial Aristocracy in Early Byzantium - Marie Theres Fögen, Max Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Fall
The Byzantine Political Concept - Paul Magdalino, University of St. Andrews, Spring
Problems in Twelfth-Century Byzantine Literature - Nevra Necipoğlu, Bogazici University, Academic Year
Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins: A Study of Political Attitudes in the Late Palaeologan Period, 1370-1460 - Robert F. Taft, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, Academic Year
A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Communion and Final Rites - Yoram Tsafrir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fall
Bet Shean (Scythopolis) in the Roman, Byzantine, and Early Arab Periods: Publication of Recent Excavations - William N. Turpin, Swarthmore College, Academic Year
The Emperor and the Law - Panayotis L. Vocotopoulos, University of Athens, Fall
The Mytilene Gospels - David Wright, University of California, Berkeley, Fall
Art of Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages, 300 to 800 (Pelican History of Art)
Junior Fellows
- Dimitris Cacharelias, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Academic Year
The Byzantine Illuminated Codex, Mount Athos, Esphigmenou No. 14 - Vassa Contoumas-Conticello, University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne), Academic Year
The Composition of the Fount of Knowledge of St. John of Damascus (before 750)
Summer Fellows
- Chrysanthe Baltoyianni, Byzantine Museum of Athens
The Virgin Galaktotrophousa and Its Relationship with the Semiology of the Passion - Nadezhda F. Kavrus-Hoffmann, Russian University of Peoples' Friendship
Byzantine Scriptoria in the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries and Byzantine Writing Styles - Svetlana Emilova Kujumdzieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Kekragarion in the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition - Michael F. Pavkovic, Hawaii Pacific University
Roman Military Institutions Reflected in Byzantine Treatises - Engelina Smirnova, Moscow University
Russian Icons of the Eleventh to the First Third of the Thirteenth Centuries - Jean-Michel Spieser, Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg
Decorative Programs of Middle Byzantine Churches
Summer Fellow/Seminars
Summer Seminars
Visiting Fellows
Visiting Scholars
1992/93
Fellows
- Dmitry E. Afinogenov, USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of World History, Academic Year
Social and Ideological Backgrounds of the Party Struggle Inside the Iconophile Church of Byzantium in the 9th Century and its Impact on Byzantine Literature - Thomas S. Brown, University of Edinburgh, Spring
The Byzantine Contribution to the Political, Economic, and Cultural History of Italy, 500-1200 A.D. - Noël Duval, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Spring
Definitive Version of the Manual of North African Christian Archaeology: The Royalty and Imperial Palace of Late Antiquity - David Frendo, University College, Cork, Fall
Literary Tradition and Historical Reality: A Study of Early Byzantine Poetry from Nonnos of Panopolis to George of Pisidia - David Frank Graf, University of Miami, Spring
Arabia Petraea during the Byzantine Era - Michael John Jeffreys, University of Sydney, Fall
The Historical Poems of Manganeios Prodromos - Haris A. Kalligas, Kifissia, Greece, Fall
Byzantine Monemvasia - Klaus-Peter Matschke, Universität Leipzig, Spring
Sozialgeschichte der Spätbyzantinischen Familie Notaras - Susan T. Stevens, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Academic Year
Images of a Christian City: Carthage in the 5th through 7th Centuries
Junior Fellows
- Nicholas Constas, Catholic University of America, Academic Year
Four Christological Homilies of Proclus of Constantinople - Nicholas Constas
- Sharon E. J. Gerstel, New York University, Spring
The Development of Eucharistic Iconography in Byzantine Monumental Painting: The Case of the Sanctuary in Macedonian Churches - Dušan Korać, University of Beograd, Yugoslavia, Academic Year
Byzantium under the Amorians (820-867) - Dirk Krausmüller, University of Munich, Academic Year
Monastic Ways of Life and Concepts of Salvation in 9th to 12th Century Byzantium - Olenka Z. Pevny, New York University, Academic Year
The Middle Byzantine Frescoes of the Church of St. Cyril in Kiev: A Study of Byzantine Style and Iconography in Kievan Rus
Summer Fellows
- Jutta-Annette Bruhn, Brown University
Coin Settings in Roman Imperial Jewelry - Alexandra A. Chekalova, USSR Academy of Sciences
Senatorial Aristocracy in Early Byzantium - Archibald Warren Dunn, The University of Birmingham
An Historical and Archaeological Framework for the Survey of Boeotia: The Middle Byzantine Period - Richard Lim, Smith College
Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity - Alexander L. Lingas, The University of British Columbia
Sunday Matins in Late Byzantine Thessalonica: Music and Liturgy - Jacqueline Long, University of Texas, Austin
The Literary and Political Worlds of Claudian's In Eutropium - John Osborne, University of Victoria
Drawings of Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities in the Museo Cartaceo of Cassiano dal Pozzo - Helen Saradi-Mendelovici, University of Guelph
The Greek City in the 6th Century A.D. - Elena Vladymirovna Stepanova, St. Petersburg State University
Lead Seals of Early Medieval Italy - Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul Universitesi
The Frescoes of St. Sophia in Enez (Ainos)
Venetian Exchange Fellows
Visiting Fellows
1991/92
Fellows
- Zaza Alexidze, K. Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts, Academy of Sciences, Georgian SSR, Fall
The Making of National Churches in the Transcaucasus - Marie-France Auzépy, C.N.R.S., Paris, Spring
Hagiography and History: The Example of the Vita Stephani Iunioris and the So-called Iconoclasm - Vera Hrochová, Prague University, Fall
The Economic Role of Byzantine Cities in the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries - Benjamin H. Isaac, Tel Aviv University, Spring
Palestine from Bar Kokhba to the Moslem Conquest and The Roman and Byzantine Road System in Israel - Anna Kartsonis, University of Washington, Academic Year
The Word of the Image in Byzantium: Image Theory and Practice Before and After Iconoclasm - George L. Kurbatov, Leningrad University, Academic Year
The Byzantine City - Cherie J. Lenzen, Washington Grove, Maryland, Academic Year
A Tale of Two Cities in Late Antiquity: Caesarea Maritima/Qasariyah and Capitolias/Beit Ras - Ann Moffatt, Australian National University, Fall
Constantine Porphyrogennetos' De ceremoniis, Vol. 2: Commentary - Joseph Patrich, University of Haifa, Academic Year
Sabas--Leader of Palestinian Monasticism - Denis F. Sullivan, University of Maryland, Academic Year
A Critical Edition, Translation, and Philological-Historical Commentary on Works of Hero of Byzantium' - Franz Tinnefeld, Universität München, Spring
Spiritual Life and Currents in Late Byzantine Society (1260-1460)