Byzantine Fellows List, 2011/12

Fellows

• Simone Beta, University of Siena Fall, Enigmatic Literature in Byzantium: Authors and Texts
• Asa Eger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Spring, The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange among Muslim and Christian Communities
• Kateryna Kovalchuk, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Academic Year, Discovering the Hagiography of St. Sophia: The Byzantine Diegesis and Encaenia of the Constantinopolitan Church
• Johannes Pahlitzsch, University of Mainz, Germany Fall, Greek Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem under Mamluk Rule
• Kostis Smyrlis, New York University Academic Year, Diminished Sovereignty? Late Byzantine Taxation and State Finances from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries
• Michele Trizio, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Academic Year, Philosophy and Theology under the Komnenoi: The Case of Eustratios of Nicaea

Junior Fellows

• Daniel Galadza, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, Italy Academic Year, The Liturgical Byzantinization of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Eighth–Thirteenth Centuries)
• Divna Manolova, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Academic Year, Paradigms of Knowledge in Nikephoros Gregoras’ Epistolary Collection
• Nebojsa Stankovic, Princeton University Academic Year, Late-Byzantine Narthexes (litai) on Mount Athos: Architecture, Liturgy, Patronage
• Nikos Tsivikis, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece Academic Year, The Settlement of Byzantine Messene: From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in the Southern Balkans, 500–800 AD
• Jeffrey Wickes, University of Notre Dame Academic Year, Out of Books, A World: The Scriptural Poetics of Ephrem's Hymns on Faith

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Jakub Kabala, Harvard University Academic Year, Frontier Spaces: Eastern Europe, 800–1000 AD
• Konstantina Karterouli, Harvard University Academic Year,Mimesis and Identity: Byzantium in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1100–1250

Summer Fellows

• Nadia Ali, Université de Provence, Marseille, Umayyad Illustrated Calendars and their Late Antique Sources: A Comparative Study
• Sarah Craft, Brown University, Dynamic Landscapes in Late Antique and Byzantine Anatolia: Pilgrimage, Travel Infrastructure, and Landscape Archaeology
• Emanuel Fiano, Duke University, Controversy in Context: Christianity in Edessa in the Second Half of the Fourth Century
• Ksenia Lobovikova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, George of Trebizond and his Martyrology of St. Andreas of Chios: Edition, Translation, Commentaries
• Philipp Niewöhner, Istanbul Department, German Archaeological Institute, Turkey, An Early Byzantine Area in the Necropolis of Miletus
• Ioanna Rapti, Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Paris, An Armenian Ekphrasis on a Late 10^th-Century Byzantine Reliquary of the True Cross
• Juan Signes Codoñer, Universidad de Valladolid, Isocrates in Byzantium
• Ida Toth, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, The Cambridge Handbook to Byzantine Epigraphy
• Luca Zavagno, Eastern Mediterranean University, An Island in Transition: History of Cyprus in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500–800 A.D.)