Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Byzantine Studies

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2019–2020

Visiting Scholars

• Dimiter Angelov (Harvard University, Spring)
• Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University, Spring)
• Anthony Kaldellis (The Ohio State University, Spring)

Fellows

• Costas N. Constantinides (University of Ioannina, Spring), “Catalogue of the Monastery of Iveron Greek Manuscripts, Vol. 2, MSS 101–200”
• Matthew R. Crawford (Australian Catholic University, Fall), “The Bishop versus the Emperor: Social Imagination and Intellectual Formation in Late Antique Alexandria”
• Arianna Gullo (University of Glasgow), “Ekphrasis and Epigram in the Age of Justinian”
• Jakub Kabala (Davidson College), “The Struggle for Great Moravia: Visions of Space in Byzantium, Francia, and the Papacy, 800–900”
• Matthew Kinloch (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), “Gender and Marginality: Protagonists and Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiography”
• Savvas Kyriakidis (Independent Scholar), “Oath-Taking and Oath-Breaking in Byzantium (13th–14th Centuries)”
• Héléna Rochard (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Fall), “Rediscovering Bawit: Pictorial Evidence for Monasticism in Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt”
• Baukje van den Berg (Central European University, Spring), “Grammar Education in Byzantium (11th–12th Centuries)”
• Warren Woodfin (Queens College, City University of New York), “Between Image and Sacrament: The Problem of Liturgical ‘Realism’ in Byzantine Art”

Junior Fellows

• Brad Boswell (Duke University, Fall), “Cyril against Julian: Traditions in Conflict”
• Alasdair Grant (University of Edinburgh, Spring), “Cross-Confessional Captivity in the Later Byzantine World, ca. 1280–1460”
• Mikael Muehlbauer (Columbia University), “Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia”
• Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (The Ohio State University), “The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Sources, Contexts, and Afterlife”
• Flavia Vanni (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham), “Byzantine Stucco Decoration: Cultural and Economic Implications across the Mediterranean World, 850–1453”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Sasson Chahanovich, “Ottoman Eschatological Enthusiasm: Ps.-Ibn al-ʿArabī and Predicting the End of the World”
• Kelsey Eldridge, “Porphyry Sarcophagi and the Material Language of Byzantium”
• John Mulhall, “Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters: A Cultural History of the Medieval Translation Movement, ca. 1050–1350”
• Sarah Porter, “Early Christian Deathscapes”

Summer Fellows

• Jan Willem Drijvers (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), “The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363–364): History and Myth”
• Martina Filosa (Universität zu Köln), “The Economic Administration of Ecclesiastical and Monastic Institutions during the Middle Byzantine Period as Reflected by Lead Seals”
• Vladimir Ivanovici (Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio), “Material Culture and ‘Lived’ Christianity in Late Antiquity: Personal Appearance”
• Krystina Kubina (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), “Late Byzantine Poetry: Mapping a Literary Landscape”
• Rachele Ricceri (Universiteit Gent), “A Reevaluation of Michael Psellos’s Writings on the Psalms and Their Transmission”
• Panagiotis Theodoropoulos (King’s College, London), “Governing Byzantine Italy: The Eparchs of Italy in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries”
• Julie Van Pelt (Universiteit Gent), “The Premetaphrastic Life and Martyrdom of Eugenia: A Translation and Short Commentary of an Unstudied Text”
• Jessica Varsallona (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham), “Palaiologan Architecture in Constantinople”

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2018–2019

Visiting Scholars

• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, Fall)
• Evangelos Chrysos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Spring)
• Michael McCormick (Harvard University, Spring)

Fellows

• Thomas Arentzen (University of Oslo), “Reading between the Limbs: Holy Week and Byzantine Bodies”
• Alberto Bardi (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani), “Astronomy in Byzantium: Workshop of Entangled Cultures”
• Daniel Caner (Indiana University, Bloomington), “The Early Evolution of Christian Philanthropy in Early Byzantium”
• Vera Klontza-Jaklova (Masaryk University), “Crete in the Period of Arab Expansion (7th–9th Century)”
• Christos Simelidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “John Geometres’s The Life of the Virgin Mary: Edition and Translation”

Junior Fellows

• Reyhan Durmaz (Brown University), “Saints, Stories, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam”
• Anna Kelley (University of Birmingham), “The Fabric of Time: Cotton and the Transformation of the Late Antique Economy”
• Mark Pawlowski (University of California, Los Angeles), “Housing and the Village Landscape in the Byzantine Mani”
• Erin Galgay Walsh (Duke University), “Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in the Liturgical Poetry of Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Walter Chahanovich, “Islamic Mysticism and Apocalypticism in the Eastern Mediterranean”
• John Mulhall, “Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters: A Cultural History of the Medieval Translation Movement, ca. 1050–1350”
• Jake Ransohoff, “Vision and Punishment: Blinding in the Byzantine World”

Summer Fellows

• Theodora Antonopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), “The Homiletic and Hagiographical Sources for St. Christodoulos, Founder of the Monastery of Patmos: Critical Edition with Introduction and Indices”
• Reinhart Ceulemans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), “Ideology in the Exegesis of the Paris Psalter”
• Marina Detoraki (University of Crete), “Recension Φ of John Moschos’s Pratum Spirituale: Critical Edition and Commentary”
• Ciro Giacomelli (Università degli Studi di Padova), “The Mirabilia between Late Antiquity and Byzantium”
• Francesco Lovino (Center for Early Medieval Studies), “Byzantine Imagery and the French Modern Beholder: The 1931 Exposition internationale d’art byzantin in Paris”
• Ekaterini Mitsiou (Universität Wien), “After Collapse: Aristocratic Networks and Imperial Power in the Empire of Nicaea”
• Alex Rodriguez Suarez (Independent Scholar), “The Latinophilia of Manuel I Komnenos: Cultural Exchange at the Byzantine Court”
• Felix Szabo (University of Chicago), “Lead Seals of Middle Byzantine Eunuchs: A Reassessment of the Evidence in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection”

2017–2018

Visiting Scholars

• Eunice Maguire (Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum, Fall)
• Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University, Fall)
• Linda Safran (University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Spring)
• Nancy Ševčenko (Independent Scholar, Spring)

Fellows

• Paolo Angelini (KU Leuven, Fall), “Introduction to the Medieval Legal History of the Southern Slavs”
• Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority and Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Fourth to Eleventh Century: Archaeological Research and Urban Context”
• Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus), “Hagia Sophia of Constantinople, 537–1204: Political, Social, and Urban History”
• Alexis Torrance (University of Notre Dame), “The Human Ideal in Byzantine Theology”
• Bernd Andreas Vest, “The Urban Space of Antioch-on-the-Orontes, 638–1268”
• Alexandra Vukovich (University of Cambridge, Spring), “Byzantine Imitative and Appropriative Coins, Fifth to Thirteenth Century”
• Alan Walmsley (Macquarie University), “Syria-Palestine in the Seventh Century: Aspects of Byzantine Continuity”

Junior Fellows

• Christopher Bonura (University of California, Berkeley), “The Apocalypse of Methodius of Patara: History and Prophecy in the Christian Encounter with Islam”
• Scott Kennedy (Ohio State University), “Thucydides and Herodotus in the Late Antique and Byzantine Rhetorical Tradition”
• Ivan Marić (University of Edinburgh), “Imperial Ideology after Iconoclasm: Negotiating the Limits of Imperial Power in Byzantium, 843–913”
• Shannon Steiner (Bryn Mawr College), “Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Fifteenth Century”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Polina Ivanova, “From Byzantium’s East to Iran’s West: Economic Change and the Rise of Cities in Medieval Asia Minor, 1000–1400”
• Jake Ransohoff, “Vision and Punishment: Blinding in the Byzantine World”
• John Zaleski, “Asceticism in the Eastern Mediterranean, Seventh through Ninth Century”

Summer Fellows

• Béatrice Caseau (Université Paris-Sorbonne and Labex RESMED), “Kissing in Byzantium”
• Jean-Claude Cheynet (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “The Byzantine Family of the Chrysobergai”
• Rebecca Falcasantos (Providence College), “Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital”
• Dimitri Korobeinikov (University at Albany), “Unpublished Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic Seals from the Zacos Collection: A Case Study of the Border Zone”
• Maria Parani (University of Cyprus), “The Date and Context of Vat. gr. 1851: The Evidence of Its Miniatures Reconsidered”
• Alan Ross (University of Southampton), “In Praise of Constantius: Greek Panegyrical Literature in the Early Byzantine Empire”
• Claudio Schiano (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), “The Tritheist Controversy on Resurrection: New Evidence on John Philoponus’s Opponents”

2016–2017

Visiting Scholar

Fellows

• Marco Aimone (University of Turin, Italy, Spring), “Interpreting Material Culture: Silverware in Ostrogothic and Byzantine Italy”
• Nicolas Beaudry (Université du Québec à Rimouski, Spring), “The Backstage of a Cathedral: An Archaeological Study of the Episcopal Quarter of Byllis, Albania”
• Andrea Cuomo (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Fall), “The Concept of Linguistic Variation in Manuel Moschopoulos’s Commentaries on Sophocles”
• Hendrik Dey (Hunter College, City University of New York), “A New Profile of Medieval—and Byzantine!—Rome”
• Adam Goldwyn (North Dakota State University), “Byzantine Ecocriticism: Humans, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance”
• Sergey Ivanov (National Research University, Moscow, Spring), “‘Vernacular’ Byzantine Hagiography of the Tenth Century: New and Unnoticed Evidence”
• Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University, Fall)
• Michail Kappas (Greek Ministry of Culture), “Kastania: Visualizing a Byzantine Village in the Peloponnese”
• Eleni Kefala (University of St Andrews), “On the Cusp of Modernity: Byzantium, America, and the Trauma of the Conquest”
• Anna Leone (Durham University, Spring), “Dibsi Faraj and the Middle Euphrates: The Rediscovered Harper Archive”

Junior Fellows

• Mihail Mitrea (University of Edinburgh), “The Saints’ Lives of Philotheos Kokkinos in Late Byzantium”
• James Morton (University of California, Berkeley), “Byzantine Canon Law and Medieval Legal Pluralism: Southern Italian Manuscripts from the Tenth to Fourteenth Century”
• Agnieszka Szymanska (Temple University), “Divine Spectacle: The Early Byzantine Triconch at the Red Monastery in Egypt”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Nathanael Aschenbrenner, “Rome Contested: Byzantine, Humanist, and Holy Roman Discourses of Empire in the Fifteenth Century”
• Polina Ivanova, “From Byzantium’s East to Iran’s West: Economic Change and the Rise of Cities in Medieval Asia Minor, 1000–1400”
• David Ungvary, “The Anxiety of Artifice: Latin Poetic Culture in the Early Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 500–700”
• John Zaleski, “Asceticism in the Eastern Mediterranean, Seventh through Ninth Century”

Summer Fellows

• Stefania Gerevini (Università L. Bocconi), “A Question of Style: Visualizing Politics in the Baptistery and Chapel of St. Isidore at San Marco, Venice”
• Fotini Kondyli (University of Virginia), “Local Responses to Global Crises: Resilience and Vulnerability in Late Byzantine Rural Communities in the Northern Aegean”
• Marketa Kulhankova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), “Byzantine Edifying Stories: Narratives between Oral and Learned Literature”
• Jaakko Olkinuora (University of Eastern Finland), “A Monastic Mother of God? The Development of the Cult of the Virgin Mary as a Model for Monks”
• Paolo Tedesco (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), “State, Taxation, and Power in the Late Roman World (300–700 CE)”
• Jeffrey Wickes (Saint Louis University), “Reassessing the Performative Context of Ephrem’s Madrashe”
• Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University), “Beyond the Periphery: The Byzantine Insular World between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

2015–2016

Visiting Scholars

• Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna, Fall)
• Jonathan Shepard (Spring)
  

Fellows

• Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham, Spring), “The Virgin Mary in the Byzantine World, 400–1200”
• Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham), “The Virgin Mary in the Byzantine World, 400–1200: Images, Texts, Relics, and Ceremony”
• Stig Frøyshov (University of Oslo), “The Horologion in Constantinople and Peripheries: Palatine, Secular, and Monastic Contexts”
• Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), “From Cross to Crucifix: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Dominican Rereading of Hrabanus Maurus’ In Honor of the Holy Cross”
• Yuri Marano (Collège de France, Monde Byzantin), “The Privileged Burials of Early Byzantine Greece (Early Fourth to Early Seventh Century CE)”
• Fabio Pagani (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), “Studying Plato at Mystra: New Perspectives on Gemistos Pletho and His School”
• Nikolaos Zagklas (University of Silesia), “Theodore Prodromos: Writing Poetry and Schedography in Twelfth-Century Constantinople”

Junior Fellows

• Ludovic Bender (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), “Hermitages and Rock-Monasteries of Laconia (Eleventh–Fifteenth Century): The Landscape of Monasticism in a Byzantine Region”
• Siren Celik (University of Birmingham), “A Historical Biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)”
• Bradley Hostetler (Florida State University), “The Function of Text: Byzantine Reliquaries with Metrical Inscriptions, 843–1204”
• Roman Shliakhtin (Central European University, Budapest), “The Image of the Seljuk Turks among the Byzantine Literati of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Nathanael Aschenbrenner, “Rome Contested: Byzantine, Humanist, and Holy Roman Discourses of Empire in the Fifteenth Century”
• Coleman Connelly, “Appropriating the Greek Past in the Greco-Arabic Translation Movement"
• David Ungvary, “The Anxiety of Artifice: Latin Poetic Culture in the Early Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 500–700”

Summer Fellows

• Anne-Catherine Baudoin (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), “The Greek Gospel of Nicodemus in the Context of First-Millennium Culture”
• Darlene Brooks Hedstrom (Wittenberg University), “Feeding Asceticism: The Archaeology of Byzantine Monastic Kitchens”
• Branislav Cvetkovic (Regional Museum of Jagodina, Balkan Studies Institute), “Between Power and Demise: Reliquary of Barbara Frankopan Brankovic”
• Reyhan Durmaz (Brown University), “Texts, Authors, and Holy Men between Christian and Islamic Hagiographical Traditions”
• Roberta Franchi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), “Reading the Life of Olympias: A Case for Female Deaconesses at Constantinople”
• Przemyslaw Marciniak (University of Silesia, Poland), “Hermippos, Hermodotos, and Musokles: A Study of the Three Byzantine Dialogues”
• Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), “Same-Sex Desire among Elite Men during the Time of the Macedonians”
• Brian Matz (Carroll College), “Patristic Citations in the Filioque Controversy of the Middle Byzantine Period”
• Phillip Mazero (Saint Louis University), “Frontier Politics: Veneto-Byzantine Relations, Civic Identity, and Imperial Hegemony, 697–1126”

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2014–2015

Visiting Scholars

• Julian Gardner (University of Warwick, Emeritus)
• Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University)

Fellows

• Christophe Erismann (University of Lausanne, Spring), “Studying Aristotelian Logic in Ninth-Century Byzantium”
• Niels Gaul (Central European University, Spring), “Toward a Sociology of Paideia, ca. 800–1350: Manuscripts, Mimesis, Ethos”
• Nina Glibetic (Yale University), “Byzantine Liturgy among the Slavs: Deciphering the Late Chapter of Byzantine Liturgical History”
• Nikos Kontogiannis (Greek Ministry of Culture), “New Approaches to Late Byzantine Jewelry and Dress Accessories: Reevaluating the Chalcis Treasure”
• Michael Maas (Rice University), “‘Include Me Out’: Imperial Rome and the Peoples of the World at the End of Antiquity”
• Paul Magdalino (Koç University, Spring), “A Literary History of Constantinople”
• Vasileios Marinis (Yale University, Fall), “Death and the Fate of the Soul in Byzantium: Theologies, Liturgies, Images”
• Philipp Niewöhner (University of Oxford), “‘Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust’: Reconciling Pagan Identity with Christian Norms”
• Gabriel Radle (Yale Institute of Sacred Music), “The History of the Byzantine Rite of Marriage”

Junior Fellows

• Byron MacDougall (Brown University), “Gregory of Nazianzus and Christian Festival Rhetoric”
• Georgios Makris (University of Birmingham), “Monks and Monasteries of Byzantine Thrace (Tenth to Fourteenth Century)”
• Giuseppe Ricci (Princeton University), “Nomads in Late Antiquity: Gazing on Rome from the Steppe, Attila to Asparuch”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Coleman Connelly (in residence at Dumbarton Oaks in 2014–2015), “Appropriating the Greek Past in the Greco-Arabic Translation Movement”
• Merih Danali (in residence at Dumbarton Oaks in 2014–2015), “Negotiating Self-Representation and Cultural Identity: Artistic and Cultural Responses to the Byzantine-Ottoman Encounter (1300–1453)”
• Julian Yolles, “Latin Culture in the Crusader States (1099–1187)”

Summer Fellows

• Janet Atwill (University of Tennessee), “Rhetoric and the Display of Art: Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, and Libanius”
• Christos Malatras (Koç University), “The Evolution of Offices and Titles in the Twelfth Century”
• Stavros Mamaloukos (University of Patras), “Middle and Late Byzantine Monastic Architecture”
• Daria Resh (Brown University), “Metaphrasis in Byzantine Hagiography before Symeon Metaphrastes”
• Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge), “The Novels of the Emperor Justinian”
• Christos Stavrakos (University of Ioannina), “The Zafeiris Syrras Collection of Byzantine Lead Seals”

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2013–2014

Visiting Scholars

• Peter Brown (Princeton University)
• Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University)

Fellows

• Ivan Drpić (University of Washington), “Art and Epigram in Byzantium, 1100–1450”
• Dimitris Kastritsis (University of St. Andrews), “Byzantines, Ottomans, and Others in the Last Century of Byzantium, 1354–1453”
• Ekaterina Nechaeva (American Academy in Rome), “Defection and Freedom: Long-Term Cross-Border Movements of Individuals in the Late Antique World”
• Foteini Spingou (University of Oxford), “Anonymous Poems and Epigrams from Marcianus gr. 524: Edition and Translation”
• Tolga Uyar (Orient & Méditerranée, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), “Art and Society in the Land of Rūm: Thirteenth-Century ‘Byzantine’ Paintings in Cappadocia”
• Elena Velkova Velkovska (Università di Siena), “The Byzantine Liturgical Gospel between Constantinople and Jerusalem”

Junior Fellows

• Nathan Leidholm (University of Chicago), “Political Families in Byzantium: The Social and Cultural Significance of Genos as Kin Group, ca. 900–1150”
• Jordan Pickett (University of Pennsylvania), “Water after Antiquity: The Transformation of Roman Water Management in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean”
• AnnaLinden Weller (Rutgers University), “Imagining Pre-Modern Imperialism: The Letters of Byzantine Imperial Agents outside the Metropole”

William R. Tyler Fellows

• Merih Danali (Harvard University, Spring), “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”
• Julian Yolles (Harvard University), “Latin Culture in the Crusader States (1099–1187)”

Summer Fellows

• Maria Doerfler (Duke University), “The Death of Strangers and the Life of the Community in Eastern Christian Thought”
• Mircea Duluș (Central European University, Budapest), “The Homilies of Philagathos of Cerami: Byzantine Culture at the Court of King Roger II and William I”
• Meaghan McEvoy (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), “The Politics of Incompetence? The ‘Feeble’ Theodosian Emperors and Why They Matter”
• Inmaculada Pérez Martín (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid), “Byzantium’s Reception of Michael Psellos's De omnifaria doctrina, as Shown by Its Manuscripts”
• Marka Tomic Djuric (Institute for Balkan Studies SASA), “Displaying Liturgical Poetry: The Church of Marko's Monastery Near Skopje”
• Warren Woodfin (Queens College, City University of New York), “Byzantium and the Kipchaks: Material and Military Contacts”
• Nektarios Zarras (University of the Aegean), “Image and Narration in Byzantium: New Testament Cycles in Palaiologan Monumental Painting”

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2012–2013

Visiting Scholar

• Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University)

Fellows

• Julian Baker (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Spring), “Money in Constantinople, the Sea of Marmara, and the Northeast Aegean during the Fourteenth Century”
• Floris Bernard (Universiteit Gent), “Playfulness and Wit in Byzantine Letter Writing (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)”
• Grigory Kessel (Philipps-Universität Marburg), “Syriac Monastic Anthologies: Reception and Transmission of Syriac and Greek Monastic Literature”
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie (Academy of Sciences Berlin–Brandenburg, Spring), “Byzantine Historiography: Caught Between Literary Ambition and the Demands of Scholarship?”
• Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania), “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

• Rebecca Darley (University of Birmingham), “Indo-Byzantine Exchange (Fourth–Eighth Centuries): A Global History”
• Beatrice Daskas (Milan), “See Something, Say Something? Toward a New Reading of Mesarites’ Description of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople”
  
• Andrei Gandila (University of Florida), “Marginal Money: Coins, Frontiers, and Barbarians in Early Byzantium (Sixth–Seventh Centuries)”
• Nicholas Marinides (Princeton University), “Lay Piety in Byzantium, 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: Imagining Eastern Europe, ca. 750–900”
• Konstantina Karterouli (Harvard University), “The Assimilation of Byzantine Art in Western Art of the Late Twelfth Century”

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 Domżalski (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), “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), “Joseph Rhakendytes’ Synopsis of Rhetoric: Translation and Commentary”
• Martin Wallraff (University of Basel), “The Canon Tables of the Gospels by Eusebius of Caesarea (Fourth Century): Critical Edition and Commentary”

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2011–2012

Visiting Scholars

• Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
• Averil Cameron (University of Oxford)

Fellows

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

Junior Fellows

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

William R. Tyler Fellows

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

Summer Fellows

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

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2010–2011

Visiting Scholars

• Nancy Ševčenko
• Robin Cormack (University of Cambridge)

Fellows

• Dimiter G. Angelov (Harvard University/University of Birmingham, Spring), “The Byzantine Hellene: Emperor Theodore II Laskaris and the Transformation of Byzantine Culture after 1204”
• Mark C. Bartusis (Northern State University, Aberdeen), “Warfare in Later Byzantium”
• Ildiko Csepregi (University of Reading, Fall), “Temple Sleep from Antiquity to Byzantium: Healing, Dreaming, and Storytelling”
• Veronica della Dora (University of Bristol, Spring), “Mapping Sacred Landscapes in Byzantium”
• Réka Forrai (Central European University, Budapest), “The Papacy and the Spread of Greek Learning in the Medieval West”
• Manfred Kraus (University of Tübingen, Fall), “The Byzantine Aftermath of Aphthonius’s Progymnasmata”
• Aglae Pizzone (University of Milan), “‘Imagine There’s a Tragelaph’: Phantasia and Aesthetics in the Middle Byzantine Period (Ninth–Twelfth Centuries)”
• Peter Sarris (Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Fall), “Agrarian Change in Byzantium, ca. 630–1204”
• Kostas Yiavis (Cornell University), “Vernacular Byzantine Translations and the Medieval European Romance, 1350–1550”

Junior Fellows

• Heather Badamo (University of Michigan), “Icons of Military Saints in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean: Image and Community in the Ninth–Thirteenth Centuries”
• Annie Labatt, “In Search of the ‘Eastern’ Image: Sacred Painting in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Rome”
• Alexander More (Spring), “State and Health in the Medieval Mediterranean at the Origins of Welfare Policy, 1150–1350”

Summer Fellows

• Margaret B. Alexiou (Harvard University), “Ptochoprodromika: Edition, Translation, Commentary, with Introduction”
• Sarah T. Brooks (James Madison University), “The Art of Death in Byzantium: Funerary Art and Architecture, 1204–1453”
• Ana Cabrera L. (Museo Nacional De Artes Decorativas, Madrid), “Characterization of Coptic Textiles: The Collection of the Textile and Clothing Museum of Barcelona”
• Mariachiara Giorda (University of Turin), “Retelling the Family: Blood Ties in Egyptian Monasticism (Fourth–Seventh Centuries)”
• Alexander L. Lingas (City University London, United Kingdom/European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford), “A New Historical Introduction to Byzantine Chant”
• Przemysław Marciniak (University of Silesia, Poland), “A Commentary and Translation of the Three Byzantine Dramatia: Katomyomachia, Dramation, and Bion prasis”
• Sergei Mariev (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), “Optics and Aesthetics in Theodoros Metochites”
• Alberto Rigolio (University of Oxford), “The Syriac Translation Movement: Shaping Greek Education for a Christian Society”
• Svetlana Sobkovitch (École pratique des hautes études, Université Paris-Sorbonne), “Marian Prefigurations in Byzantine Art: Evolution of the Main Types”
• Oğuz Tekin (Istanbul University), “Late Roman and Byzantine Weights in the Collection of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum”

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2009–2010

Visiting Scholars

• Paolo Odorico (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University)

Fellows

• Maria Evangelatou (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Weaving Christ’s Body: Clothing, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium”
• Scott Johnson (Washington and Lee University), “All the World’s Knowledge: Geography and Literature in Late Antiquity”
• Noel Lenski (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Slavery in Late Antiquity”
• Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham, Spring), “Imperial Ceremonial in Palaiologan Constantinople”
• Meaghan McEvoy (British School at Rome/University of Oxford, 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), “Inventing Monasticism”
• 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), “The Formation of Constantinople as a Sacred Center”
• Florin Leonte (Central European University), “Ideology and Rhetoric in Manuel Ⅱ Palaiologos's Texts”
• Alexander Riehle (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), “Literature and Society in the Reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos: An Examination of the Letter-Collection of Nikephoros Choumnos”
• Jennifer Westerfeld (University of Chicago), “In the Shadow of the Sphinx: Pharaonic Sacred Space in the Coptic Imagination”

Summer Fellows

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

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2008–2009

Visiting Scholars

• Jonathan Shepard
• John Haldon (Princeton University)

Fellows

• Rina Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority), “The Church of the Kathisma on the Jerusalem–Bethlehem Road: Archaeological, Art Historical, and Historical Study”
• Marina Bazzani (Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), “A Literary, Linguistic, and Historical Analysis of the Poems of Manuel Philes”
• Myriam Hecquet-Devienne (Université de Lille 3, CNRS), “Intellectual Circles in Byzantium in the Tenth Century”
• Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University, Spring), “Ancient Greek and Christian Rhetorical Tradition in the Work of Ioannes Sikeliotes”
• Isabella Sandwell (University of Bristol, Spring), “Pragmatics, Preaching, and Social Change in Late Antiquity: The Sermons of John Chrysostom”

Junior Fellows

• Fotini Kondyli (University of Birmingham), “Late Byzantine Rural Sites in the North Aegean: Their Archaeology and Distribution Patterns”
• Yuliya Minets (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), “Constructing Ideas of Christian Life: The Strategies of Interpretation of the Biblical Texts by Palladius of Hellenopolis”
• Vitalijs Permjakovs (University of Notre Dame), “The Origins and Evolution of the Byzantine Rite for the Consecration of Churches”
• Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent (Brown University), “Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature”

Summer Fellows

• Mine Esmer (Istanbul Technical University), “Proposals for the Conservation of the Middle Byzantine Period Monuments of Istanbul and their Neighborhoods, Three Examples: Vefa Mosque, Fethiye Mosque, and Atik Mustafa Paşa Mosque”
• Réka Forrai (Central European University), “Greek in the West: The Medieval Papacy and the Western Translation Projects”
• Michael John Jeffreys (University of Oxford), “Lead Seals in Dumbarton Oaks and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire”
• Andreas Rhoby (Institut für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), “Byzantine Epigrams on Icons and Objects of Minor Arts”
• Ufuk Serin (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), “Late Antique and Byzantine Rural Settlements in Caria (Western Asia Minor) in the Light of New Archaeological Evidence”
• Antonios Tsakalos (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens), “The Rock-Cut Monastery of Karanlık Kilise in the Göreme Valley: Monasticism, Art, and Patronage in Byzantine Cappadocia”
• Ivan Jordanov (Konstantin Preslavsky University, Shumen, Bulgaria), “Corpus of the Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria, Volume 3”

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2007–2008

Visiting Scholar

• Diether Roderich Reinsch (Freie Universität Berlin)

Fellows

• Alessandra Bucossi (Genova, Italy), “Andronikos Kamateros’s Sacred Arsenal: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary”
• Börje Bydén (Göteborg University, Fall), “Theodore Metochites’ Commentary on Aristotle’s De anima: Critical Edition with an English Translation”
• Elizabeth Fisher (George Washington University), “The Tradition of the Byzantine Translator’s Preface”
• Cornelia Horn (Saint Louis University), “Synergetical Relationships: Christian Apocrypha and Early Islamic Literature in Dialogue”
• Nadezhda F. Kavrus-Hoffmann (Glenmont, NY, Fall), “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America”
• Emmanouil Patedakis (University of Crete), “Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary of the Unpublished Works of Athanasios I, Patriarch of Constantinople”
• Yuri Pyatnitsky (State Hermitage Museum), “Byzantine Icons Collection in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg”

Junior Fellows

• Örgü Dalgiç (New York University), “Late Antique Floor Mosaics in Constantinople before the Great Palace”
• Philip Venticinque (University of Chicago), “Common Causes: The Social World of Guilds and Associations in Roman and Late Antique Egypt”

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2006–2007

Visiting Scholars

• Paul Magdalino (University of St Andrews)
• Speros Vryonis

Associate Fellow

• Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

• Florin Curta (University of Florida, Fall), “Greece in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500–ca. 1050): An Economic and Social Perspective”
• Stephen E. Gersh (University of Notre Dame, Spring), “The Byzantine Proclus”
• Dimitri Korobeinikov (University of Oxford), “Byzantium and the Turks from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Centuries”
• Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University), “The Churches of Syrian Antioch: Christian Sites of Worship in the City and its Suburbs (350–600 CE)”
• Arietta S. Papaconstantinou (Collège de France–CNRS), “The Rise and Fall of Coptic: A Cultural History of the Language and its Speakers”
• Christos Simelidis (University of Oxford), “A Critical Edition of the Carmina of St. Gregory of Nazianzus for the Corpus Christianorum Series”
• Denis F. Sullivan (University of Maryland), “The Life of St. Basil the Younger”
• Alan G. Walmsley (The University of Copenhagen), “The Levantine Economy, ca. 565–865 CE: New Archaeological Perspectives”

Junior Fellows

• Koray S. Durak (Harvard University), “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), “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), “Visualizing the Cultural Transition in Bithynia (1300–1402): Architecture, Correlative Spaces, and Urbanism”

Summer Fellows

• Ivan Biliarsky (Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), “A Glossary of the Juridical Terms in Medieval Bulgaria”
• Eugenia Chalkia (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens), “Jewelry in the Byzantine Museum of Athens: The Mytilene Treasure”
• Ksenia I. Lobovikova (Russian Federal Professional Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg), “Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and Islam: Political and Theological Aspects of his Attitudes toward Islam”
• Donald A. McColl (Washington College), “Signs of the Times: The Cleveland Marbles”
• Edmund C. Ryder (Institute of Fine Arts), “Portable Micromosaic Icons of the Late Byzantine Period”
• Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent (Brown University), “The Cult of St. Febronia: From Nisibis to Rome”
• Oğuz Tekin (Istanbul University), “Byzantine Coins Found during the Excavations at Perge”

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2005–2006

Associate Fellow

• Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

• Victor Alexandrov (Budapest, Hungary, Fall), “Byzantine Dimension of the Canon Law Corpus of the Orthodox Slavs and Romanians”
• Zhiqiang Chen (Nankai University, Spring), “The Byzantines in Chinese Eyes: Translation and Commentary of Relevant Ancient and Medieval Chinese Texts”
• Peter John Heather (University of Oxford, Fall), “Migration and Development in First Millennium Europe”
• Marilyn E. Heldman (University of Missouri, St. Louis, Fall), “Early Byzantine Miniatures Revealed”
• Sergey Ivanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Spring), “Things and Places Speaking of Themselves: From Rome to Byzantium”
• Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina), “Suicide in Byzantium”
• Dirk Krausmüller (Queen’s University Belfast), “The Constantinopolitan Monastery of Panagiou in its Eleventh-Century Context”
• Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The History and Archaeology of Bet Shean (Scythopolis) from the Hellenistic to the Medieval Periods: Introductory Volume (Series of Final Reports)”
• Tomasz Waliszewski (Warsaw University, Fall), “Growth or Decline? Agriculture and Village Life in the Late Antique Near East (Third–Eighth Centuries)”
• Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California, Spring), “Memorials Transformed: Funerary Monuments, Church Space, and Saints’ Cults in Late Antiquity”

Junior Fellows

• Paroma Chatterjee (University of Chicago), “The Politics of Narrative: The Byzantine and Italian Narrative Icons”
• Jon Kyle Harper (Harvard University), “Slavery in Late Antiquity”
• Maureen Anne O'Brien (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Art and Text in the Vienna Genesis”
• Vessela Valiavitcharska-Marcum (University of Texas at Austin, Spring), “Rhetoric and Poetry in Byzantine Homiletics”

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2004–2005

Associate Fellow

• Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

• Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University), “The Milk of Salvation? Constructions of the Nursing Virgin Mary in Eastern Christian Art”
• Daniel F. Caner (University of Connecticut), “Wealth, Charity, and Christian Imagination in the Early Byzantine Period”
• Andrew Crislip (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Fall), “Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity”
• Ivan Jordanov (Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science), “The Prosopography of Bulgaria under Byzantine Rule, 971–1185”
• Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles, Spring), “A Historical and Literary Commentary on the Vita of Epiphanius of Salamis”
• Alexander L. Saminski (Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art, Moscow), “Antioch (969–1268): Byzantine Provincial Art from Georgia and Greek Illuminated Manuscripts”
• Rustam M. Shukurov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), “Latent Turkification of Byzantium (ca. 1071–1461)”

Junior Fellows

• Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis (Harvard University), “Eustathios of Thessalonike: A Literary Profile Based on a New Edition, Translation, and Commentary of Five Opuscula”
• Niels Henrik Gaul (Bonn University), “Authorship, Audience, and Performance of Highbrow Literature in Late Byzantium (ca. 1250–ca. 1350)”
• Günder Varinlioğlu (University of Pennsylvania), “The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: Limestone Villages of Southeastern Isauria”

Summer Fellows

• Marcello Garzaniti (University of Florence), “From Holy Land to Holy Russia: The Origins of the Pilgrimage Literature of the Rus’”
• Stefan Heidemann, “Preparation of a Catalogue of the Christian Oriental Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection”
• Asen Kirin (University of Georgia), “Sacred Art, Secular Context: Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks”
  
• Sergio La Porta (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Early Armenian Scholia on the Works Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite”
• Tassos C. Papacostas (King’s College London), “The History and Architecture of the Monastery of St. John Chrysostom at Koutsovendis, Cyprus”
• Maria G. Parani (Nicosia, Cyprus), “The Monastery of St. Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis (Cyprus): The Wall-Paintings”
• Claudia Sode (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), “Preparation of a Catalogue of the Christian Oriental Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection”
• Emilie van Opstall (University of Amsterdam), “John Geometres: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary of his Poems in Hexameters and Elegiacs”

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2003–2004

Visiting Scholar

• Ioli Kalavrezou

Associate Fellow

• Irfan Shahîd

Fellows

• Ralf Behrwald (Universität Bamberg), “The City as Museum?: Concepts of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity”
• Maria Evangelatou (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens), “The Illustration of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters: Layers of Meaning and their Sources”
• Peter Galadza (Saint Paul University, Ottawa), “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), “Light and Lighting in Early Christian and Byzantine Churches”

Junior Fellows

• Vasileios Marinis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “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), “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”

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2002–2003

Visiting Scholar

• Sümer Atasoy
• John Duffy (Harvard University)

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), “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), “The Syriac Literary Background of Romanos the Melodist”
• Tatiana Pentkovskaya (Moscow State University), “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), “Art and Identity in Medieval Southern Italy”

Junior Fellows

• Nikolas Bakirtzis, (Princeton University), “Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikion near Serres: A Topography of Monastic Life”
• Jonathan P. Conant (Harvard University), “Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines: Romanitas and the Cultural Transformation of the North African Elite, ca. 400–ca. 650”
• Aaron P. Johnson (University of Colorado at Boulder), “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, ca. 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 AD 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”

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2001–2002

Visiting Scholar

• Elka Bakalova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spring)

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), “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), “Realia in Byzantine Legal Documents, 11th–15th Centuries”
• Aleksei Pentkovsky (Moscow Theological Academy), “Byzantine Monastic Liturgical Typika (9th–14th Centuries)”
• Ioanna Rapti (Paris, France, Spring), “Armenian Liturgical Illumination: King Hethum's Lectionary (Matenadaran 979)”
• Peter van Minne (Leuven University, Fall), “Contextualizing Early Christianity in Egypt”

Junior Fellows

• Elena N. Boeck (Yale University), “The Art of Being Byzantine: History, Ritual, and Visual Narrative in the Madrid Skylitzes”
• Sarah T. Brooks (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts), “Commemoration of the Dead: Late Byzantine Tomb Decoration (Mid-13th to Mid-15th Centuries)”
• Cecily J. Hilsdale (University of Chicago), “Diplomacy by Design: Rhetorical Strategies of the Byzantine Gift”
• Christopher MacEvitt (Princeton University), “Crusaders and Local Christian Communities, 1097–1187”
• Warren T. Woodfin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “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, D.C.), “The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio Vol. 1: Dispacci from Nauplion, 1479–1483”

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2000–2001

Visiting Scholar

• Johannes Koder (University of Vienna, Spring)

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), “Maritime Law in the Mediterranean during the 8th–11th Centuries: Islamic vis à vis Byzantine Laws; A Comparative Study”
• Maria Mavroudi (Stuttgart, Germany), “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), “The Construction of a Cultural Identity in Byzantium: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen”
• Bissera V. Pentcheva (Harvard University), “Images of the Virgin and their Public in Middle Byzantine Constantinople”
• Alexander Rentel (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome), “A Critical Edition of the 14th Century Patriarchal Liturgical Diataxis of Dimitrios Gemistos”
• Pablo Ubierna (University of Paris [Panthéon-Sorbonne]), “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-Konnar (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”