Byzantine Fellows List, 2012/13

Fellows

• Julian Baker, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Spring, Money in Constantinople, the Sea of Marmara, and the Northeast Aegean during the Fourteenth Century
• Floris Bernard, Universiteit Gent, Academic Year, Playfulness and Wit in Byzantine Letter-Writing (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)
• Grigory Kessel, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Academic Year, Syriac Monastic Anthologies: Reception and Transmission of Syriac and Greek Monastic Literature
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Academic Year, Byzantine Historiography: Caught Between Literary Ambition and the Demands of Scholarship?
• Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania, Academic Year, Rethinking Byzantine Cappadocia
• Rossitza Schroeder, Pacific School of Religion, Fall, Image and Audience in the Ancillary Spaces of Monastic Churches in Late Byzantium

Junior Fellows

• Beatrice Daskas, Università degli Studi Milano, Academic Year, See something, say something? Toward a New Reading of Mesarites’ Description of the Holy Apostles
• Rebecca Day, University of Birmingham, Academic Year, Indo-Byzantine Exchange (Fourth to Eighth Centuries): A Global History
• Andrei Gandila, University of Florida, Academic Year, Marginal Money: Coins, Frontiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (Sixth–Seventh Centuries)
• Nicholas Marinides, Princeton University, Academic Year, Byzantine Lay Piety, ca. 600–850
• Alberto Rigolio, University of Oxford, Fall, Cross-Fertilizing Worlds: Schools and Monasteries in the Early Byzantine Period

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Merih Danali, Harvard University, Negotiating Self-Representation and Cultural Identity: Artistic and Cultural Responses to the Byzantine-Ottoman Encounter (1300–1453)
• Saskia Dirkse, Harvard University, Asceticism, Orality, and Textual Transmission in the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus
• Jakub Kabala, Harvard University, Frontier Spaces: Eastern Europe, 800–1000
• Konstantina Karterouli, Harvard University, Mimesis and Identity: Byzantium in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1100–1250

Summer Fellows

• Patrick Andrist, Université de Fribourg, Critical Edition with Commentary of the Dialogue of Athanasius and Zacchaeus
• Massimo Bernabò, Università degli Studi di Pavia, The Illustrations of the Arabic Gospels of Infancy (Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana cod. Orientale 387)
• Matthew Briel, Fordham University, Translation and Commentary of George-Gennadios Scholarios's Tracts on Predetermination
• Krzysztof Domzalski, Polska Akademia Nauk, A New Look at the History and Material Culture of the Pontic Region in the Early Byzantine Period: The Evidence of Fine Pottery
• Wolfram Drews, Universität Münster Historisches Seminar, Christians Beyond the Border: An Item on the Agenda of Byzantine Emperors?
• Heather Hunter Crawley, University of Bristol, A Sensory Archaeology of the Riha Hoard
• Robert Kitchen, Knox-Metropolitan United Church, Regina, Saskatchewan, Ethiopian Monastic Translation: Dadisho Qatraya from Syriac to Ge’ez
• Manuela Studer-Karlen, Université de Fribourg, Byzantine Church Iconographic Programs and the Liturgy: The Case of Christ Anapeson
• Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas–Austin, The Rhetoric of the Ant: Joseph Rhakendytes’ Synopsis of Rhetoric
• Martin Wallraff, Universität Basel, The Canon Tables of the Gospels by Eusebius of Caesarea (Fourth Century): Critical Edition and Commentary