Current and Former Fellows

2009/10 Summer Fellows in Byzantine Studies2009/10 Summer Fellows in Byzantine Studies

2009/10

Fellows

  • Maria Evangelatou, University of California, Santa Cruz, Academic Year
    Weaving Christ's Body: Clothing, Femininity and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium
  • Scott Johnson, Washington and Lee University, Academic Year
    All the World's Knowledge: Geography and Literature in Late Antiquity
  • Noel Lenski, University of Colorado, Academic Year
    Slavery in Late Antiquity
  • Ruth Macrides, University of Birmingham, Spring
    Byzantine Ceremonial: Court and Capital in the Fourteenth Century
  • Meaghan McEvoy, University of Oxford/British School at Rome, Fall
    Political Power and Imperial Governance: The Transformation of the Imperial Office in the Later Roman Empire, ca. 367–527
  • Columba Stewart, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Academic Year
    Tracing Monastic Culture
  • Martin Wallraff, University of Basel, Spring
    Religion of the Book? Christians and their Books in Late Antiquity: A Cultural History

Junior Fellows

  • Sarah E. Insley, Harvard University, Academic Year
    The Formation of Constantinople as a Sacred Center
  • Florin Leonte, Central European University, Budapest, Academic Year
    Ideology and Rhetoric in the Texts of Manuel Ⅱ Palaiologos
  • Alexander Riehle, Universität München, Academic Year
    Literature and Society in the Reign of Andronikos Ⅱ Palaiologos: An Examination of the Letter-Collection of Nikephoros Choumnos
  • Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Chicago, Academic Year
    In the Shadow of the Sphinx: Pharaonic Sacred Space in the Coptic Imagination

Summer Fellows

  • Jan Willem Drijvers, University of Groningen, Summer
    Helena Revisited: Cross and Myth
  • Ilias Evangelou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Summer
    The Impact of Hesychasm on the Ecclesiastical and Political Life of the Southern Slavs during the 14th Century
  • Aglae Pizzone, Università degli Studi di Milano, Summer
    Hellenistic Phantasia and Its Iconophile Offsprings
  • Catherine Saliou, Université de Paris 8, Summer
    Research on Sources Relating to the Topography of Ancient Antioch in Syria
  • Larysa Sedikova, National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Summer
    Trade Connections of Chersonesos (Cherson) in the 8th–14th c. on the Basis of Ceramic Finds
  • Werner Seibt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Summer
    Byzantine Seals with Family Names in Dumbarton Oaks
  • Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon, Summer
    The Earliest Life of the Virgin: The First English Translation from the Old Georgian

2008/09

Fellows

Junior Fellows

Summer Fellows

2007/08

Fellows

Junior Fellows

2006/07

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

Visiting Scholars

  • Paul Magdalino, University of St. Andrews, Fall
  • Speros Vryonis

2005/06

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

Junior Fellows

2004/05

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

Junior Fellows

Summer Fellows

2003/04

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

  • Elka Bakalova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spring

2000/01

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

  • Johannes Koder, University of Vienna, Spring

1999/00

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

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

  • Paul Speck

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

  • Lennart W. Ryden The Vita of Philaretos the Merciful

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

  • Sena Mutlu, The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Fall

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

  • Michael McCormick

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

  • Jean-Pierre Sodini

1995/96

Exchange Scholars

  • Jean-Claude Cheynet
  • Denis Feissel

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

  • Nicolas Panayotakis

Visiting Fellows

  • Robert Browning

Visiting Scholar

  • Vojislav Djurić

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

  • Ioanna Koltsida-Makri
  • Valentina Shandrovskaya
  • Claudia Sode

1993/94

Collège de France Exchange Scholar

  • Vincent Déroche

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

  • Wolfram Hörandner

Summer Seminars

  • Demetrius Kyritses

Visiting Fellows

  • Hélène Ahrweiler
  • Robert Browning

Visiting Scholars

  • Michel Balard
  • Cécile Morrisson

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

  • John Osborne

Visiting Fellows

  • Robert Browning

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)

Junior Fellows

  • Maria Georgopoulou, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year
    Architecture of Domination: The Case of Venetian Crete
  • Bratislav Pantelić, University of Pennsylvania, Academic Year
    The Architecture of the Katholikon of Dečani Monastery
  • Daniel H. Weiss, The Johns Hopkins University, Academic Year
    The Language of Images in Crusader Painting: The 'Arsenal Old Testament'

Summer Fellows

  • Alexander Alexakis, Exeter College, Oxford University
    Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and its Iconophile Florilegium
  • Ioanna Bitha, Academy of Athens
    Stylistic Trends and Patronage of a Group of Byzantine Paintings from the End of the Thirteenth Century in Kythera, Greece
  • Stephanos Efthymiadis, St. John's College, Oxford University
    Literacy and the Literary Audience in Early Ninth-Century Byzantium
  • Charalambos Gasparis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
    Countryside in Medieval Crete (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries): Landscape Settlement and Reclamation
  • Alexander Golitzin, Marquette University
    Mystagogy: Dionysius Areopagita and his Christian Predecessors
  • Caterina Kyriakou, State General Archives, Athens
    Late and Post-Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts: The Oracular and Eschatological Tradition of Byzantium in East and West Europe
  • Clayton Miles Lehmann, University of South Dakota
    Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Caesarea in Israel
  • Christine Smith, Syracuse University Program in Florence
    Architectural Descriptions in Western Europe and Byzantium from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
  • Ole L. Smith, University of Copenhagen
    Medieval Greek Romances
  • Barbara Zeitler, Courtauld Institute of Art
    Reception of Orthodox Art by Westerners during the Time of the Crusades

Visiting Fellows

  • Hélène Ahrweiler
  • Robert Browning

Visiting Scholar

  • Dieter Simon

1990/91

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Elna Toncheva

Fellows

  • Catherine Asdracha, Collège de France – C.N.R.S., Spring
    Inventory of the Byzantine Inscriptions of Eastern Thrace from the 4th to the 15th Century. Historical Commentary and Prosopography
  • Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University, Fall
    An Icon in Context: The Virgin of Kykko
  • George T. Dennis, The Catholic University of America, Academic Year
    An Edition of the Panegyric and Forensic Orations of Michael Psellos
  • Elizabeth A. Fisher, The George Washington University, Academic Year
    The Hagiographic Orations of Michael Psellos: A Critical Edition
  • Jakov Nikolaevič Ljubarskij, Leningrad University, Academic Year
    The History of Byzantine Historiography (6th–11th Centuries)
  • Leslie S.B. MacCoull, Society for Coptic Archaeology (North America), Academic Year
    Sixth-Century Papyri from Aphrodito and Hermopolis
  • Gelian Prokhorov, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Academic Year
    Byzantine Philosophical Literature in Slavonic Translations
  • John Philip Thomas, San Francisco, California, Academic Year
    Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: Edition, Annotation, and Commentary
  • S. Yıldız Ötüken, Hacettepe Universitesi, Academic Year
    Studies on Byzantine Architecture in Cappadocia and Church of St. Nicholas at Myra

Junior Fellows

  • John A. Cotsonis, The Pennsylvania State University, Academic Year
    Iconography of Byzantine Lead Seals: A Society and its Images
  • Derek Krueger, Princeton University, Academic Year
    The Life of Symeon the Fool and its Late Antique Context
  • Charles E. Nicklies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Academic Year
    The Architecture of the Church of SS. Pietro e Paolo d'Agro
  • Eric Perl, Yale University, Academic Year
    Methexis: Creation, Incarnation, Deification in St. Maximus Confessor

Summer Fellows

  • Lyudmila Avilushkina, Leningrad State University
    Michael Glykas' 'Chronicle': Its Role in the History of Byzantine Culture and Its Fate in the Post-Byzantine Period
  • Vassa Contoumas-Conticello, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
    The Survival of Chalcedonian Orthodoxy in the Territories Lost by Byzantium in the First Centuries of the Muslim Conquest: Ioannes Damascenus (8th c.) and Theodorus Abu Qurra (9thc.)
  • Kate Cooper, Princeton University
    The Uses of Chrysostom's Authority in the Fifth-Century Latin West
  • Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley
    Virgins of God: The Development of Female Asceticism in Fourth-Century Asia Minor and Egypt
  • George Kakavas, University of Athens
    Dionysios of Fourna: His Life and Works
  • Charles Conrad Leyser, Merton College
    A Comparison of Gregory the Great and St. Basil as Monastic Writers
  • George Makris, Aschaffenburg, Germany
    Reedition of the Vita of St. Gregory the Decapolite
  • Liliana Mavrodinova, Ivan Dujčev Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies
    Characteristics and Development of the Iconography of the Gospel Cycle in Bulgarian Wall Painting, 10th to the End of the 14th Centuries
  • Angeliki Mitsani, Byzantine Museum of Athens
    Centers of Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in Constantinople during the Second Half of the 11th Century
  • Daphne Papadatou, University of Thessaloniki
    Institutions of Distributive Justice in the Paleologan Period
  • Anastassia Papadia-Lala, University of Athens
    Social Policy and Charity in Venetian Crete (1204–1669)
  • Dora Piguet-Panayotova, Paris, France
    The Temple of Iskhan: Cultural Patrimony and Architectural Creation
  • Chryssoula Ranoutsaki, Iraklion, Crete
    A Contribution to the Study of the Melismos: Its Symbolism, Function, and Relation to Other Liturgical Themes
  • Robert Schick, American Center of Oriental Research, Jordan
    Christianity in Southern Jordan During the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
  • Tatiana Vladyshevskaja, Moscow Conservatory
    Russian Musical Semiography and its Byzantine Sources

Visiting Fellows

  • Robert Browning

1989/90

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Ivan Jordanov
  • Neil Moran

Fellows

  • S. Peter Cowe, Columbia University, Academic Year
    Armeno-Byzantine Christological Dialogue with Special Reference to the Period 550–750
  • Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, Spring
    Ivory Carving in Byzantium
  • Maria Dzielska, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Academic Year
    Synesius and his Political Philosophy
  • Jeffrey Featherstone, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Academic Year
    Edition of the Refutation of the Iconoclastic Council of 815 by the Patriarch Nicephorus
  • Stephen Gero, University of Tübingen, Academic Year
    The Byzantine Iconoclastic Movement in the Ninth Century
  • Stephen Reinert, Rutgers University, Academic Year
    The Emperor and the Sultan: Manuel Ⅱ Palaiologos' Encounter with Bayezid I and the Ottoman World
  • Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame, Spring
    A Study of the kontakion 'Hos tou ano stereomatos'

Junior Fellows

  • Boris Gudziak, Harvard University, Academic Year
    Crisis and Reform: The Ruthenian Church between the Union of Lublin (1569) and the Union of Brest (1596)
  • Peter Hatlie, Fordham University, Academic Year
    Abbot Theodore and the Studites: A Case Study in Monastic Social Groupings and Political Conflict in Constantinople (787–826)
  • Jasmin Moysidou, University of Ioannina, Academic Year
    Byzantium and its Neighbors in the Tenth Century

Summer Fellows

  • Dimitris Apostolopoulos, The National Hellenic Research Foundation
    Acta Patriarchatus Constantinopolitani: 1454–1502
  • Leonidas Bargeliotes, University of Athens
    Scepticism and Dogmatism in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Period
  • Mark C. Bartusis, Northern State College
    Pronoia
  • David Buckton, The British Museum
    The Backgrounds of Byzantine Enamel
  • Danuta Gorecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The Monasticism and the Rural Community of the Byzantine Middle Ages: A Socio-Economic Analysis
  • Dionisios Kalamakis, Piraeus, Greece
    Byzantine Translations of St. Augustine's Works
  • Sotirios Kissas, Ninth Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Thessaloniki
    Recent Excavations in Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki
  • Fairy von Lilienfeld, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen
    The Conversion of Kartli and Other Sources for the Life of St. Nino
  • Eric McGeer, University of Montreal
    The Byzantine Army in the Tenth Century
  • Theodore Natsoulas, University of Toledo, Ohio
    A Study of Ethiopian-Byzantine Relations
  • Jacques Schamp, Ecole Normale, Liège
    Damascius' Vita Isidori
  • Plutarchos Theocharidis, Tenth Ephoria of Byzantine Antiquities
    The Towers of Mount Athos: A Catalogue
  • Maria Vassilaki, University of Crete
    Cretan Painting in the Fifteenth Century: Maniera bizantina or lingua italiana?
  • Elizabeth Zachariadou, University of Crete
    Lesser Byzantine Sources Concerning the Ottomans

Visiting Fellows

  • Robert Browning
  • Gennadii G. Litavrin
  • Jakov Nikolaevič Ljubarskij

1988/89

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Bistra Nikolova
  • George Stričević

Fellows

  • Smiljka Gabelić, University of Belgrade, Academic Year
    Cycles of the Archangels in Byzantine Art
  • Fairy von Lilienfeld, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Spring
    The Conversion of Kartli
  • Ofer Livne, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Academic Year
    Muslim Ascetics and Monks
  • George Majeska, University of Maryland, Academic Year
    Critical Edition, English Translation, and Commentary for the Pilgrim Book of Anthony of Novgorod
  • Phaedon Malingoudis, University of Thessaloniki, Spring
    The Prosopography of Slavic Name-Bearers in Byzantium, Sixth-Tenth Centuries
  • Lucas Siorvanes, St. Alban's, England, Academic Year
    God and Power: Theories of Dynamics in Late Neo-Platonism

Junior Fellows

  • Berenice Cavarra, University of Bologna, Academic Year
    Philosopher-Ruler and Basileus theophiles
  • Thomas Dale, John Hopkins University, Academic Year
    The Crypt of Basilica Patriarcale at Aquileia
  • Jacqueline Long, Columbia University, Academic Year
    Claudian's In Eutropium: Artistry and Practicality in Slandering a Eunuch
  • Alessandra Ricci, University of Rome, Academic Year
    The Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople: Chronology and Characteristic Features Compared with Other Fortifications

Summer Fellows

  • Hachem Aljassem, Ontario, Canada
    A Comparative Study of the Organization of the Byzantine Themes and Arab Military Districts, A.D. 638–754
  • Beaudoin Caron, Laval University
    Catalogue of Figure-engraved Roman Glassware from the First to the Sixth Century
  • Costas N. Constantinides, University of Ioannina
    Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the Year 1570
  • Melek Delilbaşi, University of Ankara
    Epirus from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Period
  • Alexander Grishin, Australian National University
    The Travel Journal of Vasy'l Hryhorovyč-Bars'kyj: An Edition, Translation and Commentary
  • Debra Pincus, University of British Columbia
    Byzantine Elements in the Venetian Ducal Tomb, 1249–1413
  • Robert F. Taft, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome
    The Byzantine Anaphora of St. John Chrysostom: History and Text
  • Ronald Weber, University of Texas at El Paso
    Prefects, Priests, and Patrons of the Calionii: A Study in the Transformation of the Roman Aristocracy

1987/88

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Hristo Louka Matanov, Institute for Balkam Studies, Fall
    The Principality of the Dragas Clan: A Contribution to the History of Late Fourteenth Century Macedonia; The Ottoman Invasion of Bulgaria

Fellows

  • Charles Brand, Bryn Mawr College, Spring
    Revolts and Popular Outbursts in Byzantine Cities, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • Bernard Coulie, University of Louvain, Academic Year
    The Armenian Versian of the Works of Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Melek Delilbaşi, University of Ankara, Academic Year
    Epirus from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Period
  • Sarah Guberti Bassett (Clucas) , Swarthmore College, Academic Year
    The Re-use of Antiquities in the Urban Decoration of Constantinople, 4th–6th Centuries
  • Susan Harvey, University of Rochester, Academic Year
    Spirituality and Symbolic Behavior in Early Syriac Asceticism
  • Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Academic Year
    The History of Images in the Western Middle Ages

Junior Fellows

  • Zvi Ma'oz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Academic Year
    The Art and Architecture of Byzantine Synagogues in the Golan in their Wider Cultural Context
  • Eric McGeer, University of Montreal, Academic Year
    Introductions, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries for the Praecepta militaria and Chapters 56–62 of the Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos
  • Svetlana Mojsilović-Popović, University of Belgrade, Academic Year
    The Architecture of Medieval Serbian Monasteries
  • Linda Safran, Yale University, Fall
    S. Pietro at Otranto and its Place in Byzantine Art
  • Rosemary Thoonen Dubowchik, Princeton University, Academic Year
    A Chant for Feasts of the Holy Cross in the Latin, Byzantine, and Eastern Rites

Summer Fellows

  • Paul Denis, Royal Ontario Museum
    A Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection in the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Susan Madigan, University of Notre Dame
    Byzantine Palaeography and Illumination in Manuscripts of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Vol. 1: A.D. 500–1200
  • Marlia Mango, Bucks, England
    Domestic Silver Plate, A.D. 300–700
  • Gregory A. Myers, North Burnaby, Canada
    The Medieval Russian Kondakar and the Transcription of Russian Kondakarian Musical Notation
  • Frederick Norris, Emmanuel School of Religion
    A Critical Text and English Translation of Elias of Crete's Comments on Gregory Nazianzen's Theological Orations
  • Helen Saradi-Mendelovici, Trent University
    Le notariat byzantin du IXe au XVe s.

Visiting Fellows

  • Helen H. Metreveli

1986/87

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Anka Danceva-Vasileva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fall
    Plovdiv (Philippopolis) during the Middle Ages

Fellows

  • Michael Angold, University of Edinburgh, Academic Year
    Church and Society in Byzantium, 1081–1204
  • Robert Browning, Birkbeck College, University of London, Academic Year
    Contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  • Kathleen Corrigan, Dartmouth College, Academic Year
    The Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters
  • Bert De Vries, Calvin College, Fall
    The Publication of the Fieldwork at Umm el-Jamal and El-Lejjun
  • Erica Dodd, American University of Beirut, Academic Year
    Medieval Frescos in Lebanon
  • Jean-Claude Garcin, Université de Provence, Academic Year
    A Comparative Study of Muslim and Byzantine Material Civilization
  • Prudence Harper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fall
    Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period
  • Robert Hohlfelder Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the Harbors of Byzantine Caesarea Maritima
  • Chryssa Maltezou, University of Crete, Spring
    Latin Domination in Greek Lands, 1204–1797
  • Lennart W. Ryden, University of Uppsala, Spring
    The History of Byzantine Hagiography in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Junior Fellows

  • Michèle Mertens, Université de Liège, Academic Year
    Egyptian Alchemy in the Byzantine Context
  • Nevra Necipoğlu, Harvard University, Academic Year
    Byzantium between the Turks and the Latins: A Study of Political Attitudes in the Late Palaeologan Period (1380–1453)
  • Robert Schick, University of Chicago, Academic Year
    The Fate of Christians in Palestine during the Byzantine-Umayyad Transition, A.D. 600–750

Summer Fellows

  • Joseph Alchermes, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Commemoration of Martyrs in Rome and Latium
  • Maria Cesa, University of Urbino
    A Translation, with Introduction and Historical Commentary, of the Vita Epiphanii of Ennodius
  • Muriel Heppel, University of London
    Annotated English Translation, with Introduction and Commentary, of the Kievo-Pečerskij Paterik
  • Phaedon Malingoudis, University of Thessaloniki
    The Prosopography of Slavonic Name-bearers in Byzantine Sources
  • Michael McGann, Queen's University of Belfast
    The Poetry of Michael Tarchaniotes Marullus; the Constantinopolis of Ubertino Pusculo
  • Margaret E. Mullett, Queen's University of Belfast
    The Letters of Theophylact of Ochrid
  • Emilian Popescu, Theologischen Institut, Bucharest
    Second Revised Edition of Greek and Latin Inscriptions from the Fourth to Thirteenth Centuries Discovered in Romania
  • Shigebumi Tsuji, Osaka University
    The Gospels Scenes on the Attic of the Hypogeum of Clodius Hermes; Origin and Development of Narrative Landscape
  • Nina Ulff-Møller, University of Copenhagen
    Byzantine Menaia Manuscripts for the Month of April

1985/86

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Iliya Illiev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fall
    The Penetration of Christianity into Ninth- and Tenth-Century Bulgaria

Fellows

  • Xavier Barral i Altet, Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes Ⅱ, Fall
    Les Pavements en mosaique du Moyen Age Byzantin
  • Robert Browning, Birkbeck College, University of London, Spring
    A Revised Edition of Justinian and Theodora (London-NewYork 1971)
  • Robert Gregg, Duke University, Spring
    Communicating the Sacred in Word and Image: Continuities from the Third through Fifth Centuries; Greek Inscriptions from Roman Gaulanitis
  • Apostolos Karpozilos, University of Ioannina, Academic Year
    The Correspondence of Theodoros Hyrtakenos: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary
  • Andrzej Poppe, Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Academic Year
    The Ecclesiastical Geography of Eastern Slavs, 1201–1458
  • R. Denys Pringle, Keble College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    Churches and Other Buildings of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291
  • Silvia Ronchey, Rome, Italy, Spring
    Eustathius' Exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, critical edition (prooemium-odae 1/3)
  • Kalliope Theocharidou, Department of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessalonika, Academic Year
    The Architecture of the Acheiropoietos Basilica, Thessalonika: Form, Phases, and Chronology
  • John Wilkinson, Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Academic Year
    The Meaning of Early Christian Capitals, 450–560
  • Mirjana Živojinović, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academic Year
    The Monastic Trade in the Byzantine Empire and Medieval Serbia

Junior Fellows

  • Susanna Elm, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    The Organization and Institutions of Female Asceticism in Fourth-Century Egypt and Cappadocia
  • Peter John Heather, New College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    The Goths and the Balkans A.D. 350–500
  • Alexander Jones, Brown University, Academic Year
    Exact Sciences in Byzantium, Fourth to Twelfth Centuries
  • Suzanne MacAlister, University of Sydney, Spring
    An Examination of the Dream Motif in Greek Romance of Antiquity and its Revival in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Summer Fellows

  • Thomas S. Brown, University of Edinburgh
    A Social and Cultural Study of Ninth-Century Ravenna together with a Translation of the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis of Andreas Agnellus
  • Carolyn Connor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    The Crypt at Hosios Loukas and its Frescos
  • David Frendo, University College, Cork
    A Historical Commentary on the Histories of Theophylact Simocatta
  • Cynthia Hahn, Florida State University
    The Earliest Illustrated Narrative Lives of the Saints
  • John MacIsaac, Johns Hopkins University
    Provincial Mints in Greece under Manuel Comnenus: Some Evidence from Corinth and Athens
  • Christine Smith, Georgetown University
    Architectural Description of Byzantium and the West, 500–1453
  • Mehmet I. Tunay, Istanbul Universitesi
    Wall Techniques of Byzantine Architecture

1984/85

Bulgarian Exchange Fellows

  • Vassilka T. Zaimova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fall
    Relations between the Byzantine and Balkan Cultures Reflected in the Exegetical Literature, Historiography, and Lexicography

Fellows

  • Robert Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year
    The Fortifications of Eastern Anatolia and Northern Syria
  • Kaspar Elm, Free University of Berlin, Spring
    The Latin Church of Jerusalem between the East and West
  • Aleksander Gieysztor, Royal Castle Warsaw, Spring
    Slavonic Paganism and Early Christianity, Antagonisms and Coexistence
  • David Jacoby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Academic Year
    Western Expansion to the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
  • Henry Kahane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring
    The Keywords of Hellenistic and Byzantine Religious Movements
  • Renée Kahane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring
    The Keywords of Hellenistic and Byzantine Religious Movements
  • Michael Maas, Rice University, Academic Year
    John Lydus and the Roman Past
  • R. Denys Pringle, Keble College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    Churches and Other Buildings of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291
  • Jonathan Shepard, Selwyn College, Cambridge, Spring
    Byzantium and its Neighbors, ca. 850–1118
  • Robert F. Taft, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, Academic Year
    The History of the Byzantine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Anaphora, Communion, Thanksgiving, and Dismissal Rites
  • Franz Tinnefeld, University of Munich, Fall
    A Critical Edition of John Kantakouzenos' Refutatio Prochori Cydonii and Disputatio cum Paulo patriarcha latino, Ⅶ epistulis tradita
  • Yoram Tsafrir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Academic Year
    The Urban Development of Jerusalem in the Fourth and Seventh Centuries

Junior Fellows

  • Mark Herlong, Catholic University of America, Academic Year
    Kinship and Social Mobility in Byzantium, 802–1025
  • William Kennedy, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    Menander Protector and Byzantine Diplomacy in the Sixth Century
  • Anne B. Terry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring
    Early Byzantine Sculpture in the Upper Adriatic

NEH Seminars

  • Robert Croskey
  • John D'Amico
  • Gerald Day
  • Kevin Dungey
  • Steven Fanning
  • Michael Harstad
  • Andrew Horton
  • Daniel Nodes
  • Joy Potter
  • Philip Rollianson
  • Christine Smith
  • Mark A. Smith

Sigillography Seminars

  • Andrew Cappel
  • Jean-Claude Cheynet
  • Archibald Warren Dunn

Summer Fellows

  • Françoise Baritel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
    Research on Landscape in Late Mosaic Pavements
  • Xavier Barral i Altet, Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes Ⅱ
    Le Pavement en mosaïque de l'église de la Martorana à Palerme
  • Lawrence Butler, University of Pennsylvania
    The Nave Cornices of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
  • Norman Housley, University of Leicester
    The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305–1378
  • Hrisanta Marin, Romanian Accademy of Social and Political Sciences
    Kekragaria in Byzantine Chant
  • Ayla Odekan, Technical University of Istanbul
    Relations of Anatolian Turkish Architecture with Various Cultural Spheres
  • Dimitris Tsougarakis, Exeter College, University of Oxford
    Byzantine Crete from the Fifth to Sixth Century

1983/84

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

  • Şerif Bastav, Ankara University, Academic Year
    A History of Byzantium
  • Robert Benson, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall
    Hierarchy and Authority: Structures of Church and Monarchy in Medieval Thought and Action
  • Charalambos Bouras, Technical University of Athens, Spring
    Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Twelfth and the First Decades of the Thirteenth Century, in Hellas and the Peloponnesus
  • Evangelos Chrysos, University of Ioannina, Academic Year
    Register of Imperial Documents from 476–565
  • Gianfranco Fiaccadori The Greek Life of Gregentius, Bishop of Zafar (Yemen)
  • William Frend, Glasgow University, Spring
    The Propaganda War during the Great Perscution, 303–312
  • Elizabeth Jeffreys, Macquarie University, Spring
    The Chronicle of John Malalas: The Letters of the Monk Iakovos
  • Gedaliahu Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Academic Year
    Early Byzantine Theology and the Manichaean Challenge
  • Vladimir Vavrinek, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Spring
    The Old Slavonic Lives of Constantine and Methodius within the Framework of Byzantine Hagiography
  • John M. Wallace-Hadrill, All Souls College, Oxford, Spring
    The Preparation of a Commentary on Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • James Wiseman, Boston University, Academic Year
    History and Archeology at Stobi, Yugoslavia
  • David H. Wright, University of California, Berkeley, Spring
    Western Evidence for Byzantine Art around the Year 800

Joint Fellow Athenss

  • Mary B. Cunningham, University of Birmingham, Academic Year
    The Homilies of Andreas of Crete: Their Place in the Byzantine Homiletic Tradition: Basil of Seleucia's Homily on Lazarus: A Critical Edition and Translation

Junior Fellows

  • Mark C. Bartusis, Rutgers University, Academic Year
    The Late Byzantine Soldier: A Social and Administrative Study
  • Robert Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year
    The Fortifications of Eastern Anatolia and Northern Syria
  • Paul Hollingsworth, University of California, Berkeley, Academic Year
    Kinship and Suffering in Kievan Rus': The Cult of Boris and Gleb
  • David Olster, University of Chicago, Academic Year
    The Presentation and Function of the Emperor in the Early Seventh Century

Museum Fellows

  • Laskarina Bouras, Benaki Museum, Spring
    Byzantine Lighting Devices

Summer Fellows

  • Robert Allison, Bates College
    The Scriptorium of Philotheou: Phases in the History of Life and Thought in the Athonite Monastery as Documented in the Products of its Scriptorium
  • Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota
    Animals and Warfare in the Byzantine Empire, 378–634
  • Leslie Brubaker, Wheaton College
    Monograph on Paris. Gr. 510; Article, Politics, Patronage and Art in Ninth-Century Byzantium: The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris
  • Kathleen Corrigan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters
  • Gudrun Engberg, University of Copenhagen
    The Manuscript Tradition of the Byzantine Old Testament Lectionary (Prophetologion)
  • Genevra Kornbluth, University of North Carolina
    Carolingian Engraved Crystals and related Gems
  • Clayton Miles Lehmann, American School of Classical Studies
    The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima
  • Leslie S.B. MacCoull, Society for Coptic Archaeology
    Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World
  • Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The Architecture of Kariye Camii in Istanbul
  • Helen Saradi-Mendelovici, University of Montreal
    The Byzantine Notarial System, Especially from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century
  • Werner Seibt, University of Vienna
    Byzantine Sigillography; The Byzantine Empire and the Sasanians during the reigns of Phocas and Heraclius (External Evolution and Internal Consequences)
  • Anne B. Terry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The Architecture and Aspects of the Decorative Program at the Cathedral in Poreč: The Artistic Patronage of Bishop Eufrasius

Visiting Fellows

  • Kari Borresen

Visiting Scholars

  • David Balfour
  • Semavi Eyice

1982/83

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

  • Robert Benson, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall
    Hierarchy and Authority: Structures of Church and Monarchy in Medieval Thought and Action
  • Frank M. Clover, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Academic Year
    The Vandals and Mediterranean Politics in the Age of Geiseric
  • Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, Academic Year
    Ivory and Society: Craftsmen and Patrons in Late Antiquity
  • Hanna Geremek, University of Warsaw, Academic Year
    Culture of the Urban Elite in Egypt of the Third to Sixth Centuries: Its Products, Creators and Consumers
  • Kenneth G. Holum, University of Maryland, Academic Year
    The Holy Land: A History of Palestine from Helena's Pilgrimage to the Moslem Conquest
  • Fairy von Lilienfeld, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Spring
    The Patrocinium of Hagia Sophia/Santa Sapientia in Medieval Byzantium and Europe
  • Thomas Mathews, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Spring
    Program in Armenian Gospel Iconography
  • Margaret E. Mullett, Queen's University, Belfast, Spring
    Literary Society and the Literary Public under the Komnenoi
  • Anthony-Emil Tachiaos, University ofThessaloniki, Fall
    Photios Monemvasiotes, Metropolitan of Russia (1408–1431): A Study of Russian-Byzantine Relations in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

Guest Fellows

  • Blaga Aleksova

Joint Fellow with the American Academy in Rome

  • Thomas J.M. Cerbu

Junior Fellows

  • Simon P. Ellis, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    Byzantine Houses
  • Oliver Nicholson, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Academic Year
    Lactantius: Prophecy and Politics in the Age of Constantine the Great
  • Cynthia J. Stallman, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Academic Year
    Life of S. Pancratius of Taormina
  • Natalia Teteriatnikov, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Academic Year
    Formation and Evolution of Early Cappadocian Architecture and Decoration

Summer Fellows

  • Patricia A. Coyne, Bishop's University
    Priscian's De Laude Anastasii Imperatoris: A Historical and Literary Commentary
  • Halil Inalcik, University of Chcago
    Istanbul During the Ottoman Period: A Contribution to Ottoman Urbanism and Social History
  • James Morganstern, Ohio State University
    The Byzantine Fort and Sculpture at Dereağzi
  • Roger D. Scott, University of Melbourne
    The Chonicles of Malalas and Theophanes
  • Ioannis Spatharakis, University of Crete
    Commentary on the Illustrations of Ps. – Oppian's Cynegetica MS at Venice
  • Alice Taylor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Armenian Gospel Illumination at Lake Van, 1350–1500

Summer Fellow/Seminars

  • Dennis D. Hammond, University of California, Los Angeles
    Byzantine Documents Seminar
  • Christine Havice, University of Kentucky
    Byzantine Documents Seminar
  • Diane Legomsky

Visiting Fellows

  • Hans Mayer
  • Joshua Prawer, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Spring
  • Speros Vryonis, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year

Visiting Scholar

  • Adriana Sireli

1981/82

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

  • Brian Daley, Weston School of Theology, Academic Year
    Greek Theological Controversy in the Early Sixth Century
  • Robert S. Nelson, University of Chicago, Academic Year
    Studies on Byzantine Manuscript Illumination of the Twelfth Century
  • Dimitri Obolensky, Christ Church, University of Oxford, Fall
    Byzantium in Eastern Europe: Some Major Protagonists
  • Philip Rousseau, University of Auckland, Academic Year
    Providence and Freedom in the Later Roman Empire
  • Franz Tinnefeld, University of Munich, Spring
    Four Prooimia of Imperial Records Composed by Demetrios Kydones: Critical Editions and Philological-Historical Commentary
  • Raymond Van Dam, Stanford University, Academic Year
    Religion and Society in Late Antique Asia Minor
  • Edith M. Wightman, McMaster University, Spring
    Gallia Belgica: An Investigation of Later Empire Trends in the Northern Roman Provinces

Junior Fellows

  • Marie Taylor Davis, Princeton University, Academic Year
    Ennodius of Pavia: Religion, Politics, Literature, and Propaganda under Theoderic
  • Susan Madigan, University of Chicago, Academic Year
    Athens gr. 211 and the Illustrated Versions of the Homilies of John Chrysostom
  • Nicolas Schidlovsky, Princeton University, Academic Year
    The Notation of the Lenten Prosomoia in the Byzantine and Slavic Traditions
  • Joseph Sonderkamp, Freie Universität Berlin, Academic Year
    The Transmission of the Epitome Morborum of Theophanes, Called Nonnus

Summer Fellows

  • Averil Cameron, King's College, University of London
    Procopius of Caesarea
  • Costas N. Constantinides, Cyprus Research Center
    Cyprus and Cypriots in the Medieval Greek Sources
  • Helen Evans, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Two Narrative Gospels from the School of T'eres Roslin (Walters Art Gallery Ms. W539 and Freer Gallery of Art Ms. 32.18) – The Hands of Illuminators and the Iconography of the Texts
  • James D. Howard-Johnston, Oxford University
    The Revival of Byzantine Power in the Near East, 867–1025
  • Ann Kuttner, University of California at Berkeley
    The David Plates of Heraclius: An Art Historical Excursus into Imperial Ideology
  • Timothy S. Miller, University of Washington
    The Origins of Hospitals in Medieval Byzantium
  • Styliani Papadaki-Okland, University of Crete
    The Illustration of the Byzantine Job Manuscripts: A Preliminary Study of its Origin and Development
  • Paul Rorem, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
    The Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis
  • Helen Saradi-Mendelovici, University of Montreal
    Le notariat byzantin du IXe au XVe s.

Visiting Fellows

  • Hans Mayer
  • Speros Vryonis, University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Year

Visiting Scholar

  • Venediktos Englezakis

1980/81

Associate Fellow

  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

  • Anthony A.M. Bryer, University of Birmingham, Academic Year
    Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society
  • Dimitri Conomos, University of British Columbia, Fall
    The Late Byzantine and Slavonic Communion Cycle
  • Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America, Academic Year
    Images and Symbols, Muslim Polemic and Christian Apologetic
  • Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago, Fall
    Byzantium and the Arab Conquest
  • Anthony Luttrell, Old University of Malta, Academic Year
    An Edition of the Aragonese Chronicle of the Morea
  • Justin Mossay, Catholic University of Louvain, Spring
    Gregory of Naziarzus
  • Ahmad Shboul, University of Sydney, Academic Year
    The Byzantines in Arabic Literature: Social and Intellectual Life in the Arab Frontier Cities of Northern Syria and Upper Mesopotamia
  • Speros Vryonis
  • Slobodan Ćurčić, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring
    Annotated Bibliography of Medieval Art and Architecture in the Balkans

Fellow/American Academy in Romes

  • Jan Ziolkowski

Junior Fellows

  • John P. Baldovin, Yale University, Academic Year
    The Urban Context of Christian Worship in Jerusalem, Rome, and Constantinople from the 4th to the 10th Centuries
  • Leslie Brubaker, Johns Hopkins University, Academic Year
    The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (B.N. gr 510)
  • Bruce Lippard, Indiana University, Academic Year
    Byzantium and the Mongols, 1243–1341
  • Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, Academic Year
    The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul
  • William N. Turpin, Cambridge University, Academic Year
    The Late Roman Law Codes: Forms and Procedures of Imperial Legislation from the Classical Age to Justinian

Summer Fellows

  • Pascal Culerrier, University of Paris – Nanterre
    Urban History of Western Asia Minor (6th–10th centuries)
  • C.W.J. Eliot, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick
    The Nekropolis Church at Anemurium (Modern Anamur) in Cilicia
  • John F. Haldon, University of Birmingham
    Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society
  • John Langdon, University of California, Los Angeles
    John Ⅲ Ducas Vatatzes (1222–1254)
  • Rowena K. Loverance, University of Birmingham
    Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society
  • Werner Seibt, University of Vienna
    Byzantine Prosopography
  • Christopher Walter, Institut français d'études byzantines Paris
    Iconographical Themes Reflecting the Ideology of the Byzantine Church

Visiting Fellows

  • Hans Mayer, University of Kiel, Academic Year
    History of the Latin East

1979/80

Associate Fellows

  • Edward W. Bodnar An Edition and Translation of Letters of Ciriaco d'Ancona Written between 1443 and 1447
  • Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

  • John H. Forsyth
  • Peter Herde
  • Patricia Karlin-Hayter
  • George Kennedy
  • Carl Nordenfalk
  • Paul Speck
  • Milos Velimirovic
  • Speros Vryonis

Junior Fellows

  • Simon Franklin
  • John H. Lowden
  • Thomas S. Parker
  • Frank Trombley

Visiting Fellows

  • Raphael B.M. Bracke, Catholic University of Louvain, Academic Year
    The Manuscript Tradition of the Vita and the Works of Maximus the Confessor
  • Annemarie Weyl Carr
  • Urs Peschlow

1978/79

Fellows

  • Dogan Kuban

Junior Fellows

  • David R. Castriota
  • Elaine De Benedictis
  • Pauline Donceel-Voute
  • Timothy Duket
  • Anna Gonosova
  • Frances M. Kianka
  • Melissa Miller
  • Janet Timbie
  • James Trilling

Visiting Fellows

  • Peter M. Fraser
  • Oystein Hjort
  • Jules A. Leroy
  • James Russell
  • Ann Wharton Epstein

Visiting Scholars

  • Peter Charanis
  • Gerhart Ladner
  • Agostino Pertusi

1977/78

Junior Fellows

  • Douglas Andrews Genoese Merchants and Mercenaries in Southern Russia (1266–1380)
  • Jean Christensen
  • Brian Croke
  • Anna Kartsonis
  • Rosemary Morris
  • Declan Murphy
  • Stephen Reinert

Research Fellows

  • Gary Vikan

Visiting Fellows

  • Charalambos Bouras
  • Kathleen McVey
  • Neil Moran
  • Doula Mouriki
  • Yoram Tsafrir

Visiting Scholars

  • Hans Belting
  • Hugo Buchthal
  • John Callahan
  • Otto Demus
  • John Meyendorff
  • Joseph Szoverffy

1976/77

Junior Fellows

  • Levon Avdoyan
  • Jean Christensen
  • Brian Croke
  • Ioli Kalavrezou
  • Robert S. Nelson
  • Jean Owens Schaefer
  • Kathleen J. Shelton
  • Rochelle Snee
  • Warren Treadgold

Research Fellows

  • Kenneth H. Snipes
  • Gary Vikan

Visiting Fellows

  • Anthony A.M. Bryer
  • Evangelos Chrysos Byzantium's Legal Relations with Neighboring States
  • Robert Hohlfelder
  • Kenneth G. Holum, University of Maryland, Academic Year
  • Inabelle Levin
  • George Majeska
  • Neil Moran
  • David Wright

Visiting Scholars

  • Marie-Therese D'Alverny
  • Otto Demus
  • Dimitri Obolensky

1975/76

Junior Fellows

  • James Carder
  • Ioli Kalavrezou
  • Ruth E.Z. Kolarik
  • Ruth Macrides
  • Robert S. Nelson
  • Jean Owens Schaefer
  • Ellen C. Schwartz
  • Warren Treadgold

Research Fellows

  • Kenneth H. Snipes
  • Gary Vikan

Visiting Fellows

  • Zbigniew Borkowski
  • Evangelos Chrysos
  • Anthony Cutler
  • Paul E. Gautier
  • Michael Hendy
  • Joseph Yahalom
  • Slobodan Ćurčić

Visiting Scholars

  • Otto Demus
  • Barisa Krekic
  • Nicolas Oikonomides
  • Reinhold Schumann
  • Irfan Shahîd
  • Freddy Thiriet

1974/75

Junior Fellows

  • Jeffrey C. Anderson
  • Thomas S. Brown
  • James Carder
  • Lowell Clucas
  • John H. Forsyth
  • Stephen Hill
  • Ioli Kalavrezou
  • Ruth E.Z. Kolarik
  • Paul Magdalino
  • Kathleen J. Shelton
  • Andrew Smithies
  • Kenneth H. Snipes

Visiting Fellows

  • Carlo Bertelli
  • Edward W. Bodnar An Edition and Translation of Letters of Ciriaco d'Ancona Written between 1443 and 1447
  • Dimitri Conomos
  • Judith Herrin
  • Olga S. Popova

Visiting Scholars

  • Hugo Buchthal
  • Otto Demus

1973/74

Junior Fellows

  • Thomas S. Brown
  • Rudi Paul Lindner
  • Andrew Smithies
  • William Zeisel

Visiting Fellows

  • Hélène Ahrweiler
  • Dimitri Conomos
  • Thomas Drew-Bear
  • Clive Foss
  • Walter Andre Goffart
  • Judith Herrin
  • Elizabeth Jeffreys
  • Andrzej Poppe

Visiting Scholars

  • Robert Browning
  • Otto Demus
  • Albert Lord
  • Dominic John O'Meara
  • Shigebumi Tsuji
  • Kurt Weitzmann

1972/73

Junior Fellows

  • Irina Andreescu
  • John Duffy
  • John Hilding Erickson
  • David Johnson
  • Rudi Paul Lindner
  • Dominic John O'Meara
  • William Zeisel

Visiting Fellows

  • Robin S. Cormack
  • Stephen Gero
  • Norman William Ingham
  • Michael John Jeffreys
  • Lennart W. Ryden
  • Irfan Shahîd
  • Shigebumi Tsuji

Visiting Scholars

  • Hans Georg Beck
  • Hans Belting
  • Kurt Weitzmann
  • Bohumila Zasterova

1971/72

Junior Fellows

  • John C. Alexander
  • Irina Andreescu
  • John Duffy
  • Henry P. Maguire
  • Timothy S. Miller
  • John W. Nesbitt
  • Marie Spiro

Visiting Fellows

  • Anastasios Bandy
  • Muriel Heppel
  • Gaetano Lavermicocca
  • J. W. Salomonson

Visiting Scholars

  • Halina Evert Kappesowa
  • Paul Lemerle
  • A.D. Momigliano

1970/71

Junior Fellows

  • Robert Bergman
  • Annemarie Weyl Carr
  • Paul Finney
  • Leslie S.B. MacCoull
  • John W. Nesbitt
  • Marie Spiro
  • John Wiita

Visiting Fellows

  • Blaga Aleksova
  • Anthony A.M. Bryer
  • Hans Mayer
  • Nicolas Panayotakis

Visiting Fellow in Rome

  • Cecil Lee Striker

Visiting Scholars

  • Hans Georg Beck
  • L.G. Westerink

1969/70

Junior Fellows

  • Paul Finney
  • Leslie S.B. MacCoull
  • Ann Moffatt
  • James Morganstern
  • John Wiita

Junior Fellow/Visiting Fellows

  • Joseph Ghanem

Visiting Fellows

  • Beat Brenk
  • Vera von Falkenhausen
  • André Guillou
  • Bezalel Narkiss

Visiting Scholars

  • Hans Belting
  • Ivan Dujcev

1968/69

Junior Fellows

  • Joseph Ghanem
  • Dorothy Glass
  • James D. Howard-Johnston
  • James Morganstern
  • Doula Mouriki

Visiting Fellows

  • George Egan
  • Vera von Falkenhausen
  • André Guillou
  • Martin R. Harrison
  • Wladyslaw Kubiak
  • George Kustas
  • Penelope Mayo

Visiting Scholars

  • Herbert Hunger
  • Arthur H.S. Megaw
  • George Ostrogorsky
  • Brooks Otis

1967/68

Junior Fellows

  • Vassilios Christides
  • Jaroslav Folda
  • Margaret Frazer (English)
  • Doula Mouriki
  • Aristeides Papadakis
  • Alice-Mary Talbot
  • Edward Williams

Visiting Fellows

  • George Egan
  • Penelope Mayo

Visiting Scholars

  • Demetrios Georgacas
  • Stephen Runciman

1966/67

Junior Fellows

  • Vassilios Christides
  • Gudrun Engberg
  • Margaret Frazer (English)
  • Michael Hendy
  • George Majeska
  • Alice-Mary Talbot
  • Shigebumi Tsuji

Visiting Fellows

  • Kimon Giocarinis
  • Vladimir Vavrinek

Visiting Scholars

  • Antoine Guillaumont
  • Carl Hermann Kraeling
  • Gyula Moravcsik
  • John Teall

1965/66

Junior Fellows

  • Vassilios Christides
  • Gudrun Engberg
  • Michael Hendy
  • George Majeska
  • Nancy Sevcenko [Patterson] Academic Year
  • Lise Ann Vogel

Visiting Fellows

  • Maurizio Bonicatti
  • Hans Mayer

Visiting Scholars

  • Alfred Bellinger
  • Carl Hermann Kraeling
  • Johannes Straub

1964/65

Junior Fellows

  • Demetrios Constantelos
  • David Evans
  • Ronald Hathaway
  • Walter Kaegi
  • Herbert Kessler

Research Fellow

  • David Winfield

Visiting Fellow

  • Donald Nicol

Visiting Scholars

  • Alfred Bellinger
  • Hugo Buchthal
  • Otto Demus
  • Carl Hermann Kraeling
  • Jean Porcher

1963/64

Junior Fellows

  • David Evans
  • Mary Margaret Goldring
  • Walter Kaegi
  • William Thurman

Visiting Fellows

  • Dogan Kuban
  • Isaac Thomas
  • David Winfield

Visiting Scholars

  • Alfred Bellinger
  • Antonin Dostal
  • Carl Hermann Kraeling
  • Dimitri Obolensky

1962/63

Junior Fellows

  • Gordana Babić
  • Michael Crosby
  • William Thurman
  • John Zizioulas

Visiting Fellows

  • Nezih Firatli
  • Isaac Thomas
  • David Wright

Visiting Scholars

  • Marius Canard
  • Carl Hermann Kraeling

1961/62

Junior Fellows

  • Gordana Babić
  • Michael Crosby
  • Per Nordhagen
  • John Zizioulas

Visiting Fellows

  • John Barker
  • Charles Brand
  • Jacqueline Lafontaine

Visiting Scholars

  • Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
  • Arthur H.S. Megaw

1960/61

Junior Fellows

  • John Barker
  • Hans Buchwald
  • Harry Magoulias
  • Per Nordhagen
  • Robert Thomson
  • John Zizioulas

Visiting Fellows

  • Hans Belting
  • Irfan Shahîd

Visiting Scholar

  • Aubrey Diller

1959/60

Junior Fellows

  • John Barker
  • Harry Magoulias
  • David Pingree

Visiting Fellows

  • Hans Belting
  • Jacqueline Lafontaine
  • Pia Schmid

Visiting Scholars

  • Otto Demus
  • Ihor Sevcenko

1958/59

Fellows

  • Hans W. Lieb

Junior Fellow

  • Donald Hitchcock

Research Fellow

  • Irving Lavin

Visiting Fellows

  • George Galavaris
  • Ivanka Nikolajevic-Stojkovic

Visiting Scholars

  • Arthur H.S. Megaw
  • Gyula Moravcsik
  • Henri Seyrig

1957/58

Fellow

  • Hans W. Lieb

Junior Fellows

  • Jean E. Bickersteth
  • George Galavaris
  • Donald Hitchcock
  • John S.F. Parker

Research Fellows

  • Irving Lavin

Visiting Scholars

  • Otto Demus
  • André Grabar

1956/57

Fellows

  • William S.A. Dale
  • John Meyendorff
  • Georg Schwarz

Junior Fellows

  • Jean E. Bickersteth
  • Erica Cruikshank Dodd Academic Year
  • John S.F. Parker
  • David Pingree
  • Milos Velimirovic

Visiting Scholars

  • Peter Charanis
  • Anatole Frolow
  • George Ostrogorsky
  • Egon Wellesz

1955/56

Junior Fellows

  • Erica Cruikshank Dodd Academic Year
  • John S.F. Parker
  • Byron C. Tsangadas
  • Milos Velimirovic
  • Speros Vryonis

Visiting Scholars

  • David Amand De Mendieta
  • Henri Stern

1954/55

Junior Fellows

  • Irfan Shahîd
  • John Teall
  • Hjalmar Torp
  • Speros Vryonis

Visiting Scholars

  • Andrew Alföldi
  • Marius Canard
  • Romilly Jenkins
  • David Amand De Mendieta
  • Stig Rudberg

1953/54

Fellow

  • Cyril Mango

Junior Fellows

  • Justinia Besharov
  • Joachim Ernest Gaehde
  • Hjalmar Torp

Visiting Scholar

  • Egon Wellesz

1952/53

Junior Fellows

  • De Coursey Fales
  • Harry Hionides
  • George Kustas
  • Cyril Mango

Visiting Scholars

  • Alphonse Dain
  • Otto Demus
  • Romilly Jenkins

1951/52

Junior Fellows

  • De Coursey Fales
  • George Kustas
  • Cyril Mango

Research Fellow

  • Basil Laourdas

Visiting Scholars

  • Dimitri Obolensky
  • Helmut Schlunk

1950/51

Fellow

  • Basil Laourdas

Junior Fellow

  • George Kustas

Resident Scholar

  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

Visiting Fellow

  • John Beckwith

Visiting Scholars

  • Hugo Buchthal
  • Ernst Kantorowicz
  • Helmut Schlunk

1949/50

Fellow

  • Ihor Sevcenko

Junior Fellows

  • Deno John Geanakoplos
  • Basil Laourdas

Resident Scholar

  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

Visiting Scholars

  • Andrew Alföldi
  • Hans Peter L'Orange

1948/49

Henri Focillon Visiting Scholar

  • André Grabar

Junior Fellow

  • William Loerke

Resident Scholar

  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

Visiting Scholar

  • Otto Demus

1947/48

Henri Focillon Visiting Scholar

  • Albert Mathias Friend

Resident Scholar

  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

Visiting Scholar

  • Adolf Berger
  • Francis Dvornik

1946/47

Henri Focillon Scholar In Charge Of Researchs

  • Carl Hermann Kraeling

Junior Fellow

  • Nafsika Stergiou Theotokas

Visiting Scholar

  • André Grabar

1945/46

Fellows

  • Paul Julius Alexander
  • Milton Vasil Anastos
  • Peter Charanis
  • Glanville Downey
  • Ernest Honigmann
  • Ernst Kitzinger

Junior Fellows

  • Rosalie Beth Green
  • Mary Emily Keenan
  • Paul Atkins Underwood

Resident Scholar

  • Albert Mathias Friend

Senior Scholars

  • Sirarpie Der Nersessian
  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

1944/45

Fellows

  • Milton Vasil Anastos
  • Peter Charanis

Junior Fellows

  • Margaret Alexander
  • Elizabeth Ettinghausen
  • Rosalie Beth Green
  • Josephine Marie Harris
  • Paul Atkins Underwood
  • Sister Monica Wagner

Resident Scholars

  • Sirarpie Der Nersessian
  • Albert Mathias Friend
  • Edward Kennard Rand
  • Alexander A. Vasiliev

1943/44

Junior Fellows

  • Milton Vasil Anastos
  • Rosalie Beth Green
  • Josephine Marie Harris
  • Ernst Kitzinger
  • Paul Atkins Underwood

1942/43

Junior Fellows

  • Margaret Alexander
  • Milton Vasil Anastos
  • Josephine Marie Harris
  • Ernst Kitzinger
  • Stephan George Xydis

1941/42

Junior Fellows

  • Paul Julius Alexander
  • Milton Vasil Anastos
  • Franklin Matthews Biebel
  • Herbert Bloch
  • Donald Frederic Brown
  • Mary Emma Crane
  • Florence Eli Day
  • Andrew Saeger Keck
  • Ernst Kitzinger

1940/41

Junior Fellows

  • Edward Capps
  • Florence Eli Day
  • Alison Frantz
  • Lester Clarence Houck
  • Virginia Grace Wylie

Resources

Online Resources

Former Fellows