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1999–2000
Visiting Scholar
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Clive Foss (University of Massachusetts, Boston), “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), “The Byzantine, Iberian, Serbian and Bulgarian Aristocracy in the Athonite Monasteries (950–1460)”
- Alain Touwaide (Madrid, Spain), “Medicine and Society in Byzantium (1261–1453)”
- Witold Witakowski (Uppsala University), “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), “Imperial Ideology and Power in the Late Byzantine Empire, 1204–ca. 1328”
- Anastasios George Papademetriou (Princeton University), “Greek Elites as Christians and Converts in the Ottoman Society: 1453–1600”
- Efstratios Papaioannou (Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien), “Michael Psellos' Personality in the Light of his Correspondence and a Critical Edition of his Letters”
- Konstantinos Smyrlis (University of Paris I [Sorbonne]), “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”
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1998–1999
Visiting Scholar
- Lennart W. Rydén, “The Vita of Philaretos the Merciful”
Fellows
- Jonathan Bardill (University of Oxford), “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), “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), “Religious Motivations for the Composition of Saints' Lives in the Early Christian East”
- William L. North (University of California, Berkeley), “Oikonomia and Dispensatio in Dialogue: A Comparative Case Study of Ecclesiastical Mercy and Justice in Byzantium and the West”
- Brigitte Pitarakis (Paris, France), “Byzantine Bronze Pectoral Reliquary Crosses”
- Denis F. Sullivan (University of Maryland, College Park), “John Doxopatres' Commentaries on Hermogenes' Peri staseon and Peri ideon: A Critical Edition, Translation and Analysis”
Junior Fellows
- Michael Gaddis (Princeton University), “Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire”
- Florent Heintz (Harvard University), “Magic in the Late Antique Circus”
- Asen Kirin (Princeton University), “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 AD) 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”
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1997–1998
Visiting Scholar
Fellows
- Srdjan V. Djurić (University of Toronto), “Icons of Chilandar from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century”
- Lynda Garland (University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales), “Byzantine Humour and its Social Context, 527–1453”
- Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), “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), “The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine”
- Radivoj Radić (Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade), “Fear in Late Byzantium”
Junior Fellows
- Todd M. Hickey (University of Chicago), “The Private Economies of the Egyptian Oikoi of the Flavii Apiones”
- Veronica G. Kalas (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts), “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), “The Formation and Potential Influence of Local Provincial Elites in Pre-Komnenian Hellas and Peloponnese”
- Carl Pearson (Harvard University), “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 Wall Paintings”
- 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”
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1996–1997
Visiting Scholar
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), “A Bohairic-English Dictionary”
- Sophia Mergiali (University of Crete), “Diplomacy during the Late Byzantine Period: Palaiologan Emperors as Ambassadors in the West”
- Lida Miraj (Institute of Archaeology, Durrës), “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), “The Development of the Komnenan Army”
- Barbara Crostini Lappin (Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Spring), “The Katechetikon of Paul of Evergetis (d. 1054)”
- Leslie Dossey (Harvard University), “Rural Unrest in Late Roman North Africa”
- Stephen J. Shoemaker (Duke University), “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”
- 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 12th–15th 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. 330–ca. 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”
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1995–1996
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Fellows
Venetian Exchange Fellows
Exchange Scholars
- Jean-Claude Cheynet
- Denis Feissel
Fellows
- Theodora Antonopoulou (University of Oxford), “A Critical Edition of the Homilies of the Emperor Leo VI”
- Martin Dennert (Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg), “Byzantine Cameos”
- Smiljka Gabelić (University of Belgrade), “Hagiographical Cycles and the Problem of their Emergence”
- Stefan R. Hauser (Freie Universität Berlin), “Anab as-Safina: Late Roman to Early Islamic Tombs in Syria”
- Eric A. Ivison (British School at Athens), “Byzantine Urban Archaeology in the Athenian Agora: The Medieval Hephaisteion”
- Alexander L. Lingas (University of British Columbia), “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), “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), “The Apocalypse of Anastasia in its Middle Byzantine Context”
- Caren Calendine (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “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”
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1994–1995
Fellows
- Melek Delilbaşi (University of Ankara), “Turhan Bey: Byzantium and Sphrantzes”
- Mary-Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon), “The Middle Byzantine Lectionary: Representations of Liturgical Ritual through Text and Image”
- Peter John Heather (University College London), “Byzantium and the West, ca. 475–600”
- Sergej P. Karpov (The Moscow Lomonosov State University), “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), “The Church of the Dormition of the Virgin of Skripou”
- Lynn Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar and the Iconography of Kingship”
- Demetrius Kyritses (Harvard University), “A History of the Byzantine Aristocracy in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries”
- Maria Mavroudi (Harvard University), “The Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book of Dream Interpretation and its Arabic Sources”
- Nicolette S. Trahoulia (Harvard University), “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
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1993–1994
Visiting Scholars
- Michel Balard
- Cécile Morrisson
Visiting Fellows
- Hélène Ahrweiler
- Robert Browning
Collège de France Exchange Scholar
Fellows
- William Adler (North Carolina State University), “Chronographic Schools in Byzantium and Syria”
- Gunnar Brands (Free University of Berlin), “Architecture and Architectural Decoration of Resafa-Sergiopolis and Northern Mesopotamia”
- Alexandra A. Chekalova (Academy of Sciences of Russia), “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), “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), “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), “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), “The Byzantine Illuminated Codex, Mount Athos, Esphigmenou No. 14”
- Vassa Contoumas-Conticello (University of Paris-IV [Sorbonne]), “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
Summer Seminars
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1992–1993
Visiting Fellows
Venetian Exchange Fellow
Fellows
- Dmitry E. Afinogenov (USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of World History), “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 AD”
- 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), “Images of a Christian City: Carthage in the 5th through 7th Centuries”
Junior Fellows
- Nicholas Constas (Catholic University of America), “Four Christological Homilies of Proclus of Constantinople”
- 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), “Byzantium under the Amorians (820–867)”
- Dirk Krausmüller (University of Munich), “Monastic Ways of Life and Concepts of Salvation in 9th to 12th Century Byzantium”
- Olenka Z. Pevny (New York University), “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 AD”
- 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)”
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1991–1992
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Fellows
- Hélène Ahrweiler
- Robert Browning
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), “The Word of the Image in Byzantium: Image Theory and Practice Before and After Iconoclasm”
- George L. Kurbatov (Leningrad University), “The Byzantine City”
- Cherie J. Lenzen (Washington Grove, Maryland), “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), “Sabas—Leader of Palestinian Monasticism”
- Denis F. Sullivan (University of Maryland), “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), “Architecture of Domination: The Case of Venetian Crete”
- Bratislav Pantelić (University of Pennsylvania), “The Architecture of the Katholikon of Dečani Monastery”
- Daniel H. Weiss (The Johns Hopkins University), “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”
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1990–1991
Visiting Fellows
Bulgarian Exchange Fellows
Fellows
- Catherine Asdracha (Collège de France–CNRS, 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), “An Edition of the Panegyric and Forensic Orations of Michael Psellos”
- Elizabeth A. Fisher (The George Washington University), “The Hagiographic Orations of Michael Psellos: A Critical Edition”
- Jakov Nikolaevič Ljubarskij (Leningrad University), “The History of Byzantine Historiography (6th–11th Centuries)”
- Leslie S.B. MacCoull (Society for Coptic Archaeology [North America]),“ Sixth-Century Papyri from Aphrodito and Hermopolis”
- Gelian Prokhorov (Academy of Sciences of the USSR), “Byzantine Philosophical Literature in Slavonic Translations”
- John Philip Thomas (San Francisco, California), “Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: Edition, Annotation, and Commentary”
- S. Yıldız Ötüken (Hacettepe Universitesi), “Studies on Byzantine Architecture in Cappadocia and Church of St. Nicholas at Myra”
Junior Fellows
- John A. Cotsonis (The Pennsylvania State University), “Iconography of Byzantine Lead Seals: A Society and its Images”
- Derek Krueger (Princeton University), “The Life of Symeon the Fool and its Late Antique Context”
- Charles E. Nicklies (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “The Architecture of the Church of SS. Pietro e Paolo d'Agro”
- Eric Perl (Yale University), “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 Century) and Theodorus Abu Qurra (9th Century)”
- 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 Palaiologan 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”
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1989–1990
Visiting Fellows
- Robert Browning
- Gennadii G. Litavrin
- Jakov Nikolaevič Ljubarskij
Bulgarian Exchange Fellows
Fellows
- S. Peter Cowe (Columbia University), “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), “Synesius and his Political Philosophy”
- Jeffrey Featherstone (Cambridge, Massachusetts), “Edition of the Refutation of the Iconoclastic Council of 815 by the Patriarch Nicephorus”
- Stephen Gero (University of Tübingen), “The Byzantine Iconoclastic Movement in the Ninth Century”
- Stephen Reinert (Rutgers University), “The Emperor and the Sultan: Manuel II Palaiologos’s 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), “Crisis and Reform: The Ruthenian Church between the Union of Lublin (1569) and the Union of Brest (1596)”
- Peter Hatlie (Fordham University), “Abbot Theodore and the Studites: A Case Study in Monastic Social Groupings and Political Conflict in Constantinople (787–826)”
- Jasmin Moysidou (University of Ioannina), “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), “Skepticism 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 Socioeconomic Analysis”
- Dionisios Kalamakis (Piraeus, Greece), “Byzantine Translations of St. Augustine’s Works”
- Sotirios Kissas (Ninth Ephoria 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 (École 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”
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1988–1989
Bulgarian Exchange Fellows
- Bistra Nikolova
- George Stričević
Fellows
- Smiljka Gabelić (University of Belgrade), “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), “Muslim Ascetics and Monks”
- George Majeska (University of Maryland),“ 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), “God and Power: Theories of Dynamics in Late Neoplatonism”
Junior Fellows
- Berenice Cavarra (University of Bologna), “Philosopher-Ruler and Basileus theophiles”
- Thomas Dale (John Hopkins University), “The Crypt of Basilica Patriarcale at Aquileia”
- Jacqueline Long (Columbia University), “Claudian’s In Eutropium: Artistry and Practicality in Slandering a Eunuch”
- Alessandra Ricci (University of Rome), “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, 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”
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1987–1988
Visiting Fellows
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), “The Armenian Version of the Works of Gregory of Nazianzus”
- Melek Delilbaşi (University of Ankara), “Epirus from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Period”
- Sarah Guberti Bassett (Clucas) (Swarthmore College), “The Reuse of Antiquities in the Urban Decoration of Constantinople, 4th–6th Centuries”
- Susan Harvey (University of Rochester), “Spirituality and Symbolic Behavior in Early Syriac Asceticism”
- Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), “The History of Images in the Western Middle Ages”
Junior Fellows
- Zvi Ma'oz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Art and Architecture of Byzantine Synagogues in the Golan in their Wider Cultural Context”
- Eric McGeer (University of Montreal), “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), “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), “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 Paleography and Illumination in Manuscripts of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Vol. 1: 500–1200”
- Marlia Mango (Bucks, England), “Domestic Silver Plate, 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.”
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1986–1987
Bulgarian Exchange Fellows
- Anka Danceva-Vasileva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fall), “Plovdiv (Philippopolis) during the Middle Ages”
Fellows
- Michael Angold (University of Edinburgh), “Church and Society in Byzantium, 1081–1204”
- Robert Browning (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium”
- Kathleen Corrigan (Dartmouth College), “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), “Medieval Frescoes in Lebanon”
- Jean-Claude Garcin (Université de Provence), “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. Rydén (University of Uppsala, Spring), “The History of Byzantine Hagiography in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries”
Junior Fellows
- Michèle Mertens (Université de Liège), “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 Palaiologan Period (1380–1453)”
- Robert Schick (University of Chicago), “The Fate of Christians in Palestine during the Byzantine-Umayyad Transition, 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”
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1985–1986
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-New York, 1971)”
- Robert Gregg (Duke University, Spring), “Communicating the Sacred in Word and Image: Continuities from the Third through the Fifth Centuries; Greek Inscriptions from Roman Gaulanitis”
- Apostolos Karpozilos (University of Ioannina), “The Correspondence of Theodoros Hyrtakenos: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary”
- Andrzej Poppe (Institute of History, University of Warsaw), “The Ecclesiastical Geography of Eastern Slavs, 1201–1458”
- R. Denys Pringle (Keble College, University of Oxford), “Churches and Other Buildings of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291”
- Silvia Ronchey (Rome, Italy, Spring), “Eustathius’s Exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, Critical Edition (prooemium-odae 1/3)”
- Kalliope Theocharidou (Department of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessalonika), “The Architecture of the Acheiropoietos Basilica, Thessalonica: Form, Phases, and Chronology”
- John Wilkinson (Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem), “The Meaning of Early Christian Capitals, 450–560”
- Mirjana Živojinović (Institute for Byzantine Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), “The Monastic Trade in the Byzantine Empire and Medieval Serbia”
Junior Fellows
- Susanna Elm (St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford), “The Organization and Institutions of Female Asceticism in Fourth-Century Egypt and Cappadocia”
- Peter John Heather (New College, University of Oxford), “The Goths and the Balkans, 350–500”
- Alexander Jones (Brown University), “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 Frescoes”
- 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 Komnenos: 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”
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1984–1985
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), “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), “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), “John Lydus and the Roman Past”
- R. Denys Pringle (Keble College, University of Oxford), “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), “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), “The Urban Development of Jerusalem in the Fourth and Seventh Centuries”
Junior Fellows
- Mark Herlong (Catholic University of America), “Kinship and Social Mobility in Byzantium, 802–1025”
- William Kennedy (Balliol College, University of Oxford), “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”
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1983–1984
Visiting Scholars
- David Balfour
- Semavi Eyice
Visiting Fellow
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Şerif Bastav (Ankara University), “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), “Register of Imperial Documents from 476 to 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), “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), “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 Athens
- Mary B. Cunningham (University of Birmingham), “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), “The Late Byzantine Soldier: A Social and Administrative Study”
- Robert Edwards (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Fortifications of Eastern Anatolia and Northern Syria”
- Paul Hollingsworth (University of California, Berkeley), “Kinship and Suffering in Kievan Rus’: The Cult of Boris and Gleb”
- David Olster (University of Chicago), “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”
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1982–1983
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Fellows
- Hans Mayer
- Joshua Prawer (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Spring)
- Speros Vryonis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Associate Fellow
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), “The Vandals and Mediterranean Politics in the Age of Geiseric”
- Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University), “Ivory and Society: Craftsmen and Patrons in Late Antiquity”
- Hanna Geremek (University of Warsaw), “Culture of the Urban Elite in Egypt of the Third to Sixth Centuries: Its Products, Creators and Consumers”
- Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), “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
Joint Fellow with the American Academy in Rome
Junior Fellows
- Simon P. Ellis (Lincoln College, University of Oxford), “Byzantine Houses”
- Oliver Nicholson (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge), “Lactantius: Prophecy and Politics in the Age of Constantine the Great”
- Cynthia J. Stallman (Balliol College, University of Oxford), “Life of S. Pancratius of Taormina”
- Natalia Teteriatnikov (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), “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 Chicago), “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
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1981–1982
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Fellows
- Hans Mayer
- Speros Vryonis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Brian Daley (Weston School of Theology), “Greek Theological Controversy in the Early Sixth Century”
- Robert S. Nelson (University of Chicago), “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), “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), “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), “Ennodius of Pavia: Religion, Politics, Literature, and Propaganda under Theoderic”
- Susan Madigan (University of Chicago), “Athens gr. 211 and the Illustrated Versions of the Homilies of John Chrysostom”
- Nicolas Schidlovsky (Princeton University), “The Notation of the Lenten Prosomoia in the Byzantine and Slavic Traditions”
- Joseph Sonderkamp (Freie Universität Berlin), “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.”
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1980–1981
Visiting Fellows
- Hans Mayer (University of Kiel), “History of the Latin East”
Associate Fellow
Fellows
- Anthony A. M. Bryer (University of Birmingham), “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), “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), “An Edition of the Aragonese Chronicle of the Morea”
- Justin Mossay (Catholic University of Louvain, Spring), “Gregory of Naziarzus”
- Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney), “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 Rome
Junior Fellows
- John P. Baldovin (Yale University), “The Urban Context of Christian Worship in Jerusalem, Rome, and Constantinople from the 4th to the 10th Centuries”
- Leslie Brubaker (Johns Hopkins University), “The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (B.N. gr 510)”
- Bruce Lippard (Indiana University), “Byzantium and the Mongols, 1243–1341”
- Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul”
- William N. Turpin (Cambridge University), “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”