Prize Winners by Year

2021 BSC (Case Western Reserve, Cleveland)

• Elliot Mackin, “The Ladder and the Banquet: An Image of Divine Ascent at the Vatopedi Monastery”
• Elisabetta Barili, “John Tzetzes and Minucianus: Polemic and Selfrepresentation in the Commentary on Hermogenes”
• Peter Boudreau, “Beyond Archaization: Recalibrating Time in the Melbourne Gospels’ Canon Tables”

2020 BSC (Virtual)

• Samatha Truman, “‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’: The Execution of Judas Iscariot in Two Byzantine Marginal Psalters”
• Joe Glynias, “The Bilingual Administration of Byzantine Antioch (969-1084)”
• Edward Trofimov, “Religiosity and Social Control in Local Communities According to the Twelfth-Century Deuterokanonarion”
• Mateusz Ferens, “Memory Eternal: The Dormition of St. Ephraim as Mnemonic Landscape”

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2019 BSC (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

• 1st prize: Elisa Galardi (University of Pennsylvania), “The David Casket: A Gift for the Byzantine Empress”
• 2nd prize: Luca Farina (University of Padova), “Abū Maʿšar in Byzantium. First Remarks on the Greek Version of al-Muḏākarāt fī asrār al-nuǧūm”
• 3rd prize: Elizabeth Zhangi (Sorbonne Université), “The Invisible Icon At El Nazar Kilise, a Tenth Century Church in Cappadocia”

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2018 BSC (San Antonio)

• 1st prize: Chiara D›Agostini (University of Southern Denmark), “Mapping the Empire: A New Perspective on the Revival of Ptolemaic Cartography in Byzantium”
• 2nd prize: Michael Beshay (Ohio State University), “‹Then Shall Be the End of the World!›: The Testament of Solomon with Byzantine Imperial and Apocalyptic Traditions”
• 3rd prize: Earnestine Qiu (Tufts University), “Is White Divine? A Reevaluation of the Armeno-Crimean Lives of the Desert Fathers (Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarchate, MS 285)”

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2017 BSC (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

• 1st prize: Shannon Steiner (Bryn Mawr College), “Aesthetics of Technology and the Power of Artifice in Byzantine Cloisonné Enamel”
• 2nd prize:  Christopher Bonura (University of California at Berkeley), “The Mystery of Beser/Bashir: New Evidence on the ‘Boon Companion’ of Leo III and for the Transmission of Byzantine and Islamic Apocalyptic Thought”
• 3rd prize: Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University), “Change and Continuity in Byzantine Blinding”

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2016 BSC (Cornell University, Ithaca)

• 1st prize: Nicole Paxton Sullo (Yale University), “Memory and Recollection in Late Byzantine Akathistos Hymns”
• 2nd prize: Guillaume Malle (Institute of Fine Arts), “Concord Made Visible: The Ravenna Paschal Calendar”
• 3rd prize:  Luis J. Salés (Fordham University), “Till Death Do Us Not Part: The Theological Significance of Gregory of Nyssa’s Appropriation of Aristotelian Psychology”

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2015 BSC (New York City)

• 1st prize:  Lora Webb (Stanford University), “Transfiguration: Mosaic, Liturgy, and Sacred Space in Nea Moni”
• 2nd prize: Alexander Miller (Fordham University), “The Jordan and Ascetic Life: Philoxenos of Mabbug’s Miaphysite Contribution to Syriac Baptismal Theology”
• 3rd prize: Mary Farag (Yale University), “The Role of Ecclesial Property in the Trials of Ibas of Edessa and Dioscoros of Alexandria”

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2014 BSC (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)

• 1st prize: Christopher Timm (Florida State University), “Divinely Mandated Regime Change: Elijah and ‹Macedonian› Dynastic Ideology in the Paris Gregory”
• 2nd prize: Tara Lee Hedrick (Northwestern University), “‹Numerous Escort›: Liturgical Objects in Concert During the Late Byzantine Great Entrance”
• 3rd prize: Norman Underwood (University of California at Berkeley), “Greek Scripts and Latin Elites: (Re)Presenting Byzantine Lordship in Pre-Norman Southern Italy”

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2013 BSC (Yale University, New Haven)

• 1st prize:  Roland Betancourt (Yale University), “Why Sight Is Not Touch: Reconsidering Extramission in Byzantium”
• 2nd prize : Nicole Paxton Sullo (Yale University), “Reconsidering the Epigrams of Vatican reg. gr. 1”
• 3rd prize: Dina Boero (University of Southern California), “Making a Manuscript, Making a Cult: Scribal Production of the Syriac Life of Symeon the Stylite”

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2012 BSC (Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts)

• 1st prize: Byron MacDougall (Brown University), “The Holy Spirit and the Rhetor: Gregory of Nazianzus, enargeia, and the Feast of Pentecost”
• 2nd prize: Beatrice Daskas (Università Degli Studi Di Milano), “Where ekphrasis Meets enkomion and diegesis: Mesarites’ Description of the Church of the Holy Apostles Reconsidered”
• 3rd prize: Anna Sitz (University of Pennsylvania), “From Mortuary Temple to Church: Memory and Appropriation in Upper Egypt”

2011 BSC (DePaul University, Chicago)

• 1st prize: Erika Nuti (University of Turin), “Reconsidering Renaissance Greek Grammar Through the Case of Chrysoloras’ Erotemata’”
• 2nd prize (two winners):
  • C. Rene Chaffins (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Niketas Choniates’ Proteus: Rethinking the Paradoxical “Roles” of Andronikos I”
  • Jason Fossella (Saint Louis University), “‘Waiting Only for a Pretext’: A New Chronology for the Sixth-Century Byzantine Invasion of Spain”

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2010 BSC (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

• 1st prize: Naomi Ruth Pitamber (UCLA), “The Second Hagia Sophia of Byzantium, in İznik/Nicaea”
• 2nd prize: Jonathan Stanfill (Fordham University), “Baiting the Hook: John Chrysostom’s Defense of His Barbarian Mission”
• 3rd prize: Marion Kruse (Ohio State University), “Byzantine and Sasanian Imperial Competition in Sixth-Century Arabia”

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2009 BSC (Florida State University)

• 1st prize: Jordan Pickett (University of Pennsylvania), “A Regional Logistics Study: Three Examples from Cappadocia
• 2nd prize: Ivan Drpić (Harvard University), “Notes on Byzantine Panagiaria”
• 3rd prize: Sofia Georgiadou (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), “The Architectural Projects of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas (1266/8-1296/8) and Anna Palaiologina in Arta, Epiros”

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2008 BSC (Rutgers University)

• 1^st prize: Benjamin Anderson (Bryn Mawr College), “The Sociology of Art in Eighth-century Constantinople:  Vat. Gr. 1291 and the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai”
• 2^nd prize: David Yates (Brown University), “The Rediscovery of the Roman Republic in 11th and 12th Century Byzantine Hagiography”
• 3^rd prize: Henry Schilb (Indiana University—Bloomington), “An Unpublished, Sixteenth-century Epitaphios in the Indiana University Art Museum”

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2007 BSC (University of Toronto )

• 1^st prize: Richard Payne (Princeton University), “Christian Elites and Ecclesiastical Factionalism in the Sixth-Century Sasanian Empire: The ‘Reforms’ of Mar Aba”
• 2^nd prize: Kevin Kalish (Princeton University), “A Perspective from Below: The Lament of Hades in Romanos and the Byzantine Liturgical Tradition”
• 3^rd prize: Justin Leidwanger (University of Pennsylvania), “Structure and Scale in the Maritime Economy of Early Byzantine Cyprus”

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2006 BSC (St. Louis)

• 1^st prize: Kevin Kalish (Princeton University), “A Christian Narrative in Homeric Verse: The Melding of Poetic Traditions in the Vision of Dorotheus and the Emergence of Christian Hexameter Poetry”
• 2^nd prize: Örgü Dalgiç (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), “The Triumph of Dionysus in Constantinople: A Mosaic and Its Context”
• 3^rd prize: Travis Lee Clark (Temple University), “Behold the Cosmos: The Virgin Frontispieces of Smyrna Evangelical School B.8”

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2005 BSC (University of Georgia, Athens)

• 1^st prize: David Michelson (Princeton University), ““Though He Cannot Be Eaten, We Consume Him”:Liturgical and Devotional Contexts for Opposition to Chalcedonat the End of the Fifth Century”
• 2^nd prize: Marica Cassis (University of Toronto), “Çadir Höyük: A Byzantine Settlement in Central Anatolia”
• 3^rd prize: Eric Martin (University of Tennessee), “Bishop Athanasius and the Sacrament Mime: The Remnant of an Arian Slur?”

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2004 BSC (Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)

• 1^st prize: Günder Varinlioglu (University of Pennsylvania), “The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: Limestone Villages of Southeastern Isauria”
• 2^nd prize: Young Kim (University of Michigan), “The Heresiarch as Unholy Man: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus as Collective Biography”
• 3^rd prize: Cristina Toma (University of Maryland. College Park), “Rhodian Portrait Ceramics: Objects of Trade and Gift Exchange”

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2003 BSC (Bates College)

• 1^st prize: David A. Michelson (Princeton University), “Did Charlemagne Sack Constantinople? Western Charlemagne Legends as Anti-Byzantine Propaganda (c. 1000-1204)”
• 2^nd prize: Galina Tirnanić (University of Chicago), “The Mutilated Nose: Rhinokopia as a Visual Mark of Sexual Offence”
• 3^rd prize: D. Kay Woods (University of Kentucky), “The Lure of the East: A New Place and Space for Fourth-Century Female Patrons”

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2002 BSC (Ohio State University)

• Alicia Walker (Harvard University), “Unpacking the Darmstadt Casket”

2001 BSC (University of Notre Dame)

• Warren Woodfin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Clothing the Icon: The Podea and Analogous Liturgical Textiles”

2000 BSC (Harvard University)

• Maureen Reissner-O’Brien (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “The Gynaeceum, The Kindergarten, and the Vienna Genesis: Biblical and Extra- Biblical Imagery in Folio 16r”

1999 BSC (University of Maryland)

• Bissera V. Pentcheva (Harvard University), “A New Image of the Virgin in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Constantinople”

1998 BSC (University of Kentucky–Lexington)

• Areti Papanastasiou (University of Chicago), “. . . such a husband . . .”

1997 BSC (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

• Elizabeth S. Bolman (Bryn Mawr), “Food for Salvation: The Coptic Galaktotrophousa”

1996 BSC (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

• Kim Bowes (Princeton University), “The Monumental Columns of Constantinople and Their Function in Urban Ceremony”

1995 BSC (New York University/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

• Demetrios Kyritses (Harvard University), “The ‘Common Chrysobulls’ of Cities and the Pattern of Ownership in Late Byzantium”

1994 BSC (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)

• Glenn Peers (Johns Hopkins University), “Angelic Epiphany and Artistic Imagination”

1993 BSC (Princeton University)

• Olenka Pevny (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), “Patronage and Church Decoration in Kievan Rus’: A Study of the Church of St. Cyril in Kiev”

1992 BSC (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)

• Mary Lee Coulson (Courtauld Institute of Art), “Re Protomaiolica in 12th-Century Corinth”

1991 BSC (Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Mass.)

• Maria Georgopoulou (UCLA), “Venice and Byzantine Chandx/Candia (Crete): A Western Interpretation of Byzantine Culture”

1990 BSC (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore)

• Dorothy Verkerk (Rutgers University), “Liturgy and Narrative in the Exodus Cycle of the Ashburnham Pentateuch”

1989 BSC (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)

• Thomas Dale (Johns Hopkins University), “Venice and Aquileia: A Dialogue in Pictures”