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2023-2024

Documenting, Modeling, and Analyzing Post-Byzantine Sacred Spaces: The Case of Patrauti (1487)

Alice Sullivan, Tufts University, and Vladimir Ivanovici, University of Vienna

PhoenixByz: The Rural Byzantine Landscape around Serçe Limanı

Anna Sitz, Heidelberg University, Germany

The Kosmosoteira Monastic Landscape Project

Fontini  Kondyli, University of Virginia

Waterways of Thrace: The Maritime Hinterland of Constantinople

Alkiviadis Gianlis, German Archaeological Institute

2022-2024

The Church Excavation Project in the Asklepieion Area of Ancient Messene

Georgios Deligiannakis, Open University of Cyprus

Geophysical Exploration at the Byzantine City of Ashdod-Yam

Alexander Fantalkin, Tel Aviv University

RC14 Dating of Byzantine Fortifications on the Acropolis at Sardis

Jordan Pickett, University of Georgia-Athens

Byzantine Dome Construction in South Italy as Transcultural Knowledge

Joseph Williams, University of Maryland-College Park

2021–2023

Documenting Byzantine Secular Boxes for the Twenty-First Century

Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley

Kato Choria Archaeological Project

Mark Jackson, Newcastle University

A Bridge over the Ocean: The Malabar Coast (India) during the Middle Ages; The Ties of Byzantium with the Far East

Vasco La Salvia, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti–Pescara

Polychrome White Ware Pottery in Context: An Archaeometric Approach

Sylvia Yona Waksman, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France

 

2019–2021

An Antiochene Crusader Castle and its Context: Kozkalesi Archaeological Project (KAP)

Ayşe Belgin-Henry, Bilkent University, Ankara

Revealing the Unreadable: X-Ray Tomography of the Manichaean Synaxeis Codex

Paul Dilley, University of Iowa

Building a Dendrochronological Timeframe for Byzantine Painted Churches in Cyprus

Brita Lorentzen, Cornell University

The Emergence of Local Industry: Production and Circulation of Fine Ware in Late Roman Central Anatolia

Paolo Maranzana, Koç University

Salvaging Crete: Late Byzantine Churches and the Legacy of Painter Ioannis Pagomenos

Cristina Stancioiu, College of William & Mary

 

2018–2019

Gold in Medieval Serbian Painting

Ivan Drpić, University of Pennsylvania

Survey of a Late Roman and Early Byzantine Residence in Corinth

Efthymios Rizos, University of Oxford

An Early Byzantine Cemetery at Labraunda, Turkey: Changing Site Usage Near the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos

Anna Sitz, University of Pennsylvania

The Middle Byzantine Church of Hagios Sozon (Boeotia, Greece)

Paraskevi Tritsaroli, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies

 

2017–2018

Recovering Middle Byzantine Architecture in Istanbul: Excavation of the Church at Küçükyalı

Alessandra Ricci, Koç University

The Early Christian Domus Ecclesia at Messene, Peloponnese

Nikolaos Tsivikis, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz

 

2016–2017

Economic Networks in Byzantine Dhiban

Melissa Bailey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Gölören Archaeological Project (GÖLAP)

Jordan Pickett, University of Michigan

Archaeological Research at Loutres, Mochlos: Investigation of a Bath Complex of Medieval Crete

Natalia Poulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 

2015–2016

Recording Material Culture at the Shën Mëri Church, Labovo—An Unexplored Religious Center of Byzantine Alban

Smaragdi Arvaniti, University of Athens

Apalirou Environs Project

James Crow, University of Edinburgh

Kostoperska Karpa Regional Archaeological Project

Ine Jacobs, University of Edinburgh

Between Constantinople and Thessalonica: The Justinianic Settlement at Molyvoti, Thrace

Noah Kaye, University of Oregon

Settled and Sacred Landscapes: Byzantine Rural Archaeology in Kofinou, Cyprus

Athanasios Vionis, University of Cyprus

 

2014–2015

Excavations at el-Kabri, Israel

Asa Eger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

The Bulla Regia Project: Excavating Life and Death in the Christian City

Corisande Fenwick, University of Leicester

Excavation of the Marzamemi “Church Wreck”

Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

Abydos Coptic Hermitage Analysis Project

Dawn McCormack, Middle Tennessee State University

 

2013–2014

The 2013 Excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Lower Galilee

Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Archaeological Survey of Boğsak Island and Its Environs

Günder Varinlioǧlu, Koç University

Human Occupation and the Environment through the Byzantine Transitions at Qasr et-Tilah

Tina M. Niemi, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Archaeological Mission of the University of Bologna in Kos

Isabella Baldini, University of Bologna

Bir Madhkur Project, Wadi Araba, Jordan

Andrew M. Smith II, The George Washington University

 

2012–2013

The Survey of Thisve (Byzantine Kastorion) in Boeotia, Greece

Archibald Dunn, University of Birmingham

Seals at the Border, Seals in Context: Seals and Dorogichin-Type Seals from Czermno (Cherven Towns)

Marcin Wołoszyn, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, PL, and Marcin Piotrowski, Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, PL, with Elżbieta M. Nosek, Ars-Met Konserwacja Zabytkowych Obiektów Metalowych, Cracow, PL

 

2011–2012

Publication of the Ecclesiastical Architecture at the Site of Polis-Chrysochous on Cyprus

William Caraher, University of North Dakota

Excavations of the Byzantine-Period Levels at Kilise Tepe 2011: Preliminary Report on the Final Excavation Season

M. P. C. Jackson, Newcastle University

The Techniques and Materials of the Wall Paintings at the Enkleistra of St. Neophytos (Phase II)

Ioanna Kakoulli and Christian Fischer, University of California, Los Angeles

Forgotten Heritage II: Study and Documentation of the Church of Mar Elias Btina in Beirut (Lebanon) and Its Wall Paintings

Tomasz Waliszewski, University of Warsaw, and Krzysztof Chmielewski, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Archaeological Excavation in the Early Byzantine District in Gortyn (Crete): Preliminary Report on the 2011 Field Season

Enrico Zanini, Università di Siena

 

2010–2011

The Cemetery Excavation at the Middle Byzantine Cemetery of Zoodochos Pigi (Crete-Greece)

Chryssi Bourbou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greece

The Landscapes of Early Christian Cilicia: Byzantine Settlement Patterns in the Bay of İskenderun, Turkey (Mopsos Landscape Archaeology Project)

Ann E. Killebrew, Pennsylvania State University

Charting the Divide between Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Reconstructing the Landscape on the Danube at Dobri Dyal

Andrew Poulter, University of Nottingham

The Stratigraphy of Remembering: Excavations and Cultural Heritage Management Project in Bursa

Suna Çagaptay, Bahçeşehir University
Published as Suna Çagaptay, with the assistance of April Kamp-Whittaker and Lawrence Conyers, “Results of the Tophane Area GPR Surveys, Bursa, Turkey,” DOP 68 (2014): 387–404.

 

2009–2010

The Byzantine Rural Settlement at Kilise Tepe: A Preliminary Report on the 2009 Season

Mark Jackson, Newcastle University

Forgotten Heritage: Recording and Publication of the Church of Mar Sarkis and Bakhos in Kaftȗn (Northern Lebanon) and Its Wall Paintings

Tomasz Waliszewski, University of Warsaw, and Krzysztof Chmielewski, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Golemo Gradište at Konjuh: The Basilica, 2009

Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College

Results of the Tophane Area GPR Surveys, Bursa, Turkey

Suna Çağaptay-Arıkan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; Lawrence Conyers; and April Kamp-Whittaker, MA

Archaeological Survey of Boğsak Island and Its Environs

Günder Varinlioǧlu, University of Pennsylvania

 

2008–2009

The Byzantine Period at Çadır Höyük: A Rural Community in the Byzantine Hinterland: Report on the 2008 Season

Sharon Steadman, Binghamton University (SUNY), State University of New York at Cortland, and Marica Cassis

An Innovative Noninvasive and Nondestructive Multidisciplinary Approach for the Technical Study of the Byzantine Wall Paintings in the Enkleistra of St. Neophytos in Paphos, Cyprus

Ioanna Kakoulli and Christian Fischer, University of California, Los Angeles

The Survey of Thisve (Byzantine Kastorion and Multi-period Complex of Sites): 2007–2009

Archie Dunn, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Istanbul Ceramic Workshops Project: First Laboratory Study of a Constantinopolitan Production of Byzantine Ceramics

Yona Waksman, Laboratoire de Céramologie, CNRS – University of Lyon, France

 

2007–2008

Ras el Bassit: An Early Byzantine Church in Coastal North Syria

Nicolas Beaudry, Département des Sciences Humaines, Université du Québec à Rimouski

Archaeological and Multidisciplinary Investigation of the White Monastery Federation, Sohag, Egypt

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom and Elizabeth Bolman
Published as “The White Monastery Federation Project: Survey and Mapping at the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (Dayr al-Anba Shinūda), Sohag, 2005–2007,” DOP 65 & 66 (2011–12): 333–64.

The Egyptian Delta Monastic Archaeology Project: John the Little: Season 3 (May 12–June 14, 2008)

Stephen J. DavisDarlene Brooks Hedstrom, and Gillian Pyke

Thisve-Kastorion: Town, Territorium and Loci of Maritime Traffic (Report on Fieldwork Conducted in 2007)

Archibald Warren Dunn, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham

 

2006–2007

To Live and Die in a Turbulent Era: Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Proto-Byzantine (6th–7th centuries AD) Population from Sourtara Galaniou Kozanis, North Greece

Chryssi Bourbou, 28th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Rethymnon, Greece
See also publication in DOP 63 (2009): 221–34.

Archaeological and Multidisciplinary Investigation of the White Monastery Federation, Sohag, Egypt

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Wittenberg University

The Egyptian Delta Monastic Archaeology Project: John the Little: Season 2 (May 14–June 16, 2007)

Stephen J. DavisDarlene Brooks HedstromDawn McCormack, and Gillian Pyke

Amorium Project 2006

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early Byzantine Excavations at Çadır Höyük: Riches to Rags on the Northern Terrace

Sharon Steadman, Binghamton University (SUNY) / State University of New York at Cortland

Preliminary Report on Excavations of a Catacomb Church at Lamta, Tunisia, 8 May–16 June 2006: Dharet Slama Site 304, Leptiminus Archaeological Project

Susan T. Stevens, Randolph College

 

2005–2006

Archaeological Research Campaign of 2005–2006 in the Bay of Sudak/Crimea

Victoria Bulgakova, Institute for Greek and Latin Languages, Free University of Berlin

The Amorium Excavations Project

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study and Restoration of the Zeyrek Camii in Istanbul

Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Buckets of Grain: Daily Life in Byzantine Chersonesos

Adam T. Rabinowitz, Institute of Classical Archaeology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, and Larysa Sedikova

Early Byzantine Excavations at Çadır Höyük in Central Anatolia

Sharon Steadman, Binghamton University (SUNY) / State University of New York at Cortland

 

2004–2005

An Archaeological Exploration, Documentation, and Analysis of the former Church of Hagia Sophia at Vize in Turkish Thrace

Holger A. Klein, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; and Franz Alto Bauer, Rome Branch, German Archaeological Institute, Italy / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Lead Seals from the Archive of the Byzantine 7th–10th Century Tax Office of Sugdaia

Victoria Bulgakova, Institute for Greek and Latin Languages, Free University of Berlin

Göksu Archaeological Project in 2004

Hugh Elton, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada

Architectural Survey of the Byzantine Settlement at Selime-Yaprakhisar in the Peristrema Valley, Cappadocia, Turkey

Veronica G. Kalas, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Amorium Project 2004

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

2003–2004

Excavation and Study of Byzantine Chersonesos, Ukraine

Paul Arthur

Rescue Archaeology and Photography at the White and Red Monasteries, Sohag, Egypt

Elizabeth S. Bolman, Temple University

Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the collections of the USA: Second Phase

Nadezhda F. Kavrus-Hoffmann, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Amorium Project 2003

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Systematization of the Byzantine Coins of Chersonese

Vadim Serov

 

2002–2003

Excavation and Study of Byzantine Chersonesos, Ukraine

Paul Arthur

Works of 11th–15th c. Icon Painting from Georgia

Nina Chichinadze

Amorium Project 2002

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saving the Syriac Manuscripts in India

Istvan Perczel, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Survey of Georgian Churches

Nicholas Vacheishvili

 

2001–2002

Rescue Archaeology and Photography at the White and Red Monasteries, Sohag, Egypt

Elizabeth S. Bolman, Temple University

Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the collections of the USA: First Phase

Nadezhda F. Kavrus-Hoffmann, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey

Ian Johnson

Amorium Project 2001

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Excavations at Androna [Anderin], Syria

Marlia Mundell Mango, St. John's College, University of Oxford

 

2000–2001

Amorium Project 2000

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Archaeological Investigation at Konjuh, R. Macedonia

Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College

Byzantine Civilization on its Peripheries

Nicholas Vacheishvili

 

1999–2000

Medieval Panakton

Sharon E. J. Gerstel, New York University / University of Maryland, and Mark Munn

Excavations at Androna [Anderin], Syria

Marlia Mundell Mango, St. John's College, University of Oxford

Toward a Typological and Analytical Redefinition of the Ceramic Type Zeuxippus Ware

Yona Waksman, Laboratoire de Céramologie, CNRS – University of Lyon, France / CNRS – University of Lyon, France; and Veronique Francois, Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

1998–1999

Amorium Project 1998

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Zeyrek Camii in Istanbul: Study and Restoration

Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Excavations of a Byzantine Basilica at Bir Ftouha, Carthage

Susan T. Stevens, Randolph Macon Woman's College

1997–1998

A Survey of the Byzantine Settlements in the Israel Negev Desert

Yizhar Hirschfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amorium Project 1997

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Zeyrek Camii in Istanbul: Study and Restoration

Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

 

1996–1997

Oxford Byzantine Ceramics Project

Pamela Armstrong, Arthur H. S. Megaw, and Helen H. Hatcher

Amorium Project 1996

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Survey of a Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, Turkey

Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Photographic Survey of Byzantine Monuments and Small Objects in Istanbul, Marmara, Trakia, and Silifke, Turkey

Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul University

The Byzantine Basilica in Priene

Stephan Westphalen, University of Freiburg, Germany

 

1995–1996

Survey of Byzantine Monemvasia, Greece

Haris A. Kalligas

Amorium Project 1995

Christopher S. Lightfoot, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Survey of a Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, Turkey

Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Photographic Survey of Byzantine Monuments and Small Objects, Turkey

Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul University

 

1994–1995

Late Roman and Byzantine Communications and Frontiers, Turkey

Anthony A. M. Bryer, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and James Crow

The Via Militaris in Arabia: An Archaeological Investigation, Jordan

David Frank Graf, University of Miami

Bone and Ivory Material from the Palatine East Excavations, Rome

Archer St. Claire

Excavations of a Byzantine Cemetery Church at Bir Ftouha, Carthage

Susan T. Stevens, Randolph Macon Woman's College

 

1993–1994

Archaeological Study, Carthage

Margaret Alexander

Excavation Analysis, Carthage

Mark B. Garrison

Architectural Drawings of Churches of Anemurium

James Russell

Archaeological Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar

Steven Sidebotham

Photographs of Byzantine Monuments, Turkey

Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul University

 

1992–1993

Archaeological Study, Carthage

Margaret Alexander

Excavation of Byzantine Church at Humeima

Robert Schick, American Center of Oriental Research, Jordan / University of Chicago, IL

Archaeological Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar

Steven Sidebotham

Mosaics at Cathedral of Eufrasius

Anne B. Terry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1991–1992

Excavation at Santa Constanza

David Stanley

Athienou Archaeological Project

Michael K. Toumazou

 

1990–1991

Corpus of Ecclesiastical Architecture of Serbia: 1355–1459

Slobodan Ćurčić, Princeton University / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Byzantine Ceramics

Timothy Gregory

Cathedral of Nisibis

Cyril Mango, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Archaeological Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar

Steven Sidebotham

 

1989–1990

Rehovot ba-Negev

Kenneth G. Holum, University of Maryland, and Yoram Tsafrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Paliochora: A Byzantine Provincial City on the Island of Kythera

Theodorus Koukoulis

Christian Monuments in Turkish Mesopotamia

Cyril Mango, Exeter College, University of Oxford, and Marlia Mundell Mango, St. John's College, University of Oxford

Limes Arabicus Project

Thomas S. Parker

Architectural Drawings of Churches of Anemurium

James Russell

Survey at 'Abu Sha'ar

Steven Sidebotham