Byzantine Fellows List, 1996/97

Visiting Scholar

• Jean-Pierre Sodini

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