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Oral History Interview with Caroline Backlund, undertaken by Anne Steptoe, Elizabeth Gettinger, and Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent at the Dumbarton Oaks Guest House (Fellows Building) on July 14, 2009. At Dumbarton Oaks, Caroline Backlund was Assistant Librarian between 1968 and 1972

Oral History Interview with James N. Carder, undertaken by Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Elizabeth Gettinger, and Anne Steptoe in the Dumbarton Oaks Guest House (Fellows Building) on July 15, 2009. At Dumbarton Oaks, James Carder was a Junior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1974–1976) and the Manager of the House Collection (since 1992) and Archivist (since 1999).

Oral History interview with Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) , undertaken by Anna Bonnell-Freiden and Clem Wood at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, on August 21, 2008. At Dumbarton Oaks, Oleg Grabar was a member of the Board of Scholars for Byzantine Studies (1972–1975) and a Senior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1978–1983). He was the son of the Byzantinist André Grabar (1896–1990), who at Dumbarton Oaks was Visiting Scholar (spring 1947), Henri Focillon Scholar (1948–1949), Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1949–1954), Visiting Scholar (spring 1957), member of the Board of Scholars for Byzantine Studies (1957–1965), and Honorary Associate of Byzantine Studies (1965–1991). Oleg Grabar died in 2011.

Oral History Interview with Musja Kazhdan (accompanied by translator Misha Kazhdan, grandson of Alexander and Musja Kazhdan), undertaken by Alice-Mary Talbot at the home of Misha Kazhdan on April 18, 2010. Musja Kazhdan was the wife of Alexander Kazhdan, Senior Research Associate of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (1979–1997) and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) (1983–1991).

Oral History Interview with Ioli Kalavrezou, undertaken by James N. Carder and Margaret Mullett at the Guest House (Fellows Building) at Dumbarton Oaks on December 6, 2012. At Dumbarton Oaks, Ioli Kalavrezou was a Junior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1974–1975 and spring 1976 and fall 1977). She has been a Senior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (since the fall of 1989) and was the Harvard Professor in Residence (fall of 2012). She has been the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History in the Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture (1989–present).

Edited Oral History Interview with Gary Vikan, undertaken at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland by Anna Bonnell-Freidin and Clem Wood on August 12, 2008. At Dumbarton Oaks, Gary Vikan was a Research Fellow in Byzantine Art (1975–1978), Associate Curator of the Byzantine Collection (1979–1981), Associate for Byzantine Art Studies (1981–1983), Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies (1983–January 1985) in the Byzantine Studies program.

Oral History Interview with Eunice and Henry Maguire, undertaken by Anna Bonnell-Freiden and Clem Wood at the Maguire home in Baltimore, Maryland on September 3, 2008. At Dumbarton Oaks, Henry Maguire was a Junior Fellow (1971–1972), a Senior Fellow (1986–1990 and 1991–1996 ex officio), and Visiting Senior Research Associate (1989–1990) of Byzantine Studies; he was Director of Byzantine Studies (1991–1996).

Oral History Interview with Sidney H. Griffith, undertaken by Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent at the Dumbarton Oaks Guest House (Fellows Building) on August 7, 2009. At Dumbarton Oaks, Sidney Griffith was a Fellow of the Byzantine Studies Program (1980–1981).

Oral History Interview with Ihor Ševčenko (1922–2009), undertaken by Alice-Mary Talbot in the Dumbarton Oaks Guest House (Fellows Building) on May 6, 2008. The interview is followed by an addendum that Ihor Ševčenko recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June of 2008. Although Ševčenko twice addresses Alice-Mary Talbot in his remarks in this addendum, she did not conduct this second interview. At Dumbarton Oaks, Ihor Ševčenko was a Visiting Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1949–1950), a member of the Board of Scholars of Byzantine Studies (1965–1972), a member of the Research Staff of Byzantine Studies (1965–1974), Professor of Byzantine History and Literature (1965–2008; not in residence beginning in 1979), a member of the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Committee (1966–1967); Director of Byzantine Studies (1966–1967); a member of the faculty and research staff of Byzantine Studies (1974–1979); a Senior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1976–1979 and 1981–1983, ex-officio), and co-director of the Corpus of Dated Greek Inscriptions (1978–1982). He was also the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature at Harvard University (1981–1992) and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature Emeritus, Harvard University (1992–2009). He died in 2009.

Oral History Interview with Glen Bowersock, undertaken by Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study on July 13, 2009. At Dumbarton Oaks, Glen Bowersock was a Senior Fellow of Byzantine Studies (1984–1992) and the chair of the Senior Fellows of Byzantine Studies (1991–1992).