Graduate Programs in north America
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University of calgary
Department of Classics and Religion
Department of Classics and Religion
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
403.220.5886
Faculty: Marica Cassis
Specialization: Byzantine Archaeology (Anatolia)
Email: marica.cassis@ucalgary.ca
Website: https://arts.ucalgary.ca/classics-religion
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Nickle Gallery Numismatics Collection
Case Western Reserve University
Department of History of Art and Art
Faculty: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Title: Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts and Chair
Specialization: Egyptian monastic visual culture, Byzantine art and gender, conservation and heritage management
Email: esb87@case.edu
Website: https://arthistory.case.edu/faculty/elizabeth-bolman/
Faculty: Elina Gertsman
Cleveland Museum of Art: Gerhard Lutz
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Cleveland Museum of Art – a Joint Program that is over 50 years old
Central European University
Department of Medieval Studies
Department contact: medstud@ceu.edu
Faculty: Baukje van den Berg
Specialization: Classics and Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Literature, Byzantine Education, Reception of Ancient Literature in Byzantium, Vanden
Email: BergB@ceu.edu
Website: https://ceu.academia.edu/BaukjevandenBerg
Faculty: István Perczel
Specialization: Late Antique and Byzantine Philosophy and Theology, Eastern Christianity
Email: perczeli@ceu.edu
Website: https://people.ceu.edu/istvan_perczel
Faculty: György Geréby
Specialization: Early Christianity, Late Antique and Medieval Philosophy
Email: GerebyG@ceu.edu
Website: https://people.ceu.edu/gyorgy_gereby
Faculty: Volker Menze
Specialization: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History and Political Church History
Email: MenzeV@ceu.edu
Website: https://ceu.academia.edu/VolkerMenze
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Library of the University of Vienna, ELTE/CEU Medieval Studies Library (Budapest)
Columbia University
Department of History of Art and Archaeology
Department of Art History and Archaeology
826 Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854 3230, hak56@columbia.edu
Faculty: Holger A. Klein
Title: Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History and Archaeology
Specialization: Late Antique, Medieval Western, and Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Byzantine Luxury Arts, Cult of Relics, Thing Theory, Cross-Cultural Relations between Byzantium and Western Europe
Email: hak56@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Klein.html
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Columbia Art Properties and Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
Brown University
Department of Religious Studies
Box 1927
Providence, RI 02912-1927
Tel: 401-863-3104
Faculty: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Specialization: Late Antique and Byzantine Syriac and Greek Christianity
Email: susan_harvey@brown.edu
The relevant graduate program is Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean: https://www.brown.edu/academics/religious-studies/graduate/doctoral-tracks-phd/graduate-study-1.
Other key faculty: Prof. Jae Hee Han and Prof. Michael Satlow (Religious Studies); Prof. Jonathan Conant (History); Prof. Sheila Bonde (History of Art and Architecture). There are other relevant faculty in Classics and Archaeology. Brown also has a lively Medieval Studies community, drawing faculty from History, Comparative Literature, Classics, and Archaeology.
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World. The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum. Boston Museum of Fine Arts is near, and the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA.
Bryn Mawr College
Department of the History of Art
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
101 North Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Tel: 610-526-5074
Faculty: Alicia Walker
Specialization: Byzantine Art and Architectural History
Email: awalker01@brynmawr.edu
Website: http://www.brynmawr.edu/gradgroup/ALICEWALKER.html
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Special funding to facilitate student curatorial internships both at Bryn Mawr and in regional, national, and international museums; academic year and summer study abroad opportunities through a collaboration with Koc University, Istanbul; standard funding package includes six years of guaranteed support; exceptional library holdings for the study of the medieval and ancient worlds; strong regional consortium for cross-institutional library access and course enrollment.
University of California, Berkeley
Department of History of Art
416 Doe Library #6020
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-5511 | Fax: (510) 643-2185
Faculty: Diliana Angelova
Email: angelova@berkeley.edu
Specialization: Late Antique, Byzantine and Roman visual cultures, history of ideas, gender approaches to historical questions.
Website: https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/diliana-angelova/
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Hearst Museum of Archaeology, the Bancroft Library, and the Doe Library offer superb opportunities for research. Students can complete a concurrent Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, and to work with faculty in History (Maria Mavroudi, Susanna Elm) and in other departments, depending on their interests.
Other departments:
Faculty: Susanna Elm
Specialization: Late Antiquity
Email: elm@berkeley.edu
Website: https://history.berkeley.edu/susanna-elm
Faculty: Todd Hickey
Specialization: papyrology, Byzantine Egypt
Email: tmhickey@berkeley.edu
Website: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/tebtunis-papyri/about-ctp
https://classics.berkeley.edu/people/todd-hickey
Faculty: Maria Mavroudi
Specialization: Byzantine history, Byzantium and the Arabs
Email: mavroudi@berkeley.edu
Website: https://history.berkeley.edu/maria-mavroudi
Faculty: Asad Ahmed
Specialization: Graeco-Arabica, Arabic and Islamic Studies
Email: asad.ahmed@berkeley.edu
Website: https://nes.berkeley.edu/faculty/ahmed.html
Faculty: Adam Benkato
Specialization: Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism
Email: abenkato@berkeley.edu
Website: https://www.adambenkato.com/
Faculty: Simon Breleaud
Specialization: Middle Eastern Christianity, and especially the history of East Syrian Christians; Christianity among the Arabs; Syriac studies; Syriac epigraphy; Eastern Christian Archaeology
Email: brelaudsimon@gmail.com
Website: https://nes.berkeley.edu/faculty/brelaud.html
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, Hearst Museum
University of California, Irvine
Department of Art History
Program in Visual Studies
2000 Humanities Gateway
University of California
Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697
Faculty: Roland Betancourt
Email: roland.betancourt@uci.edu
Courses: The Byzantine Icon: Art, Theory, and Theology; Temporality and Apocalyptic Thought in Byzantium; What is an Image? An Anthropology of Images and their Users; The Middle Ages in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus or nearby: The Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington Library, TLG
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Architecture and Urban Design
1317 Perloff Hall
Box 951467
Los Angeles, California 90095-1467
Tel: 310-825-7857
Faculty: Diane Favro
Graduate Seminars: Cultural Mapping; Urbanism
Department of Art History
University of California, Los Angeles
100 Dodd Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
Tel: 310-206-6905
Faculty: Sharon Gerstel
Specialization: Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Email: gerstel@humnet.ucla.edu
Website: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/sharon-e-j-gerstel/
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Getty Museum, Special collections on campus include Byzantine, Armenian and Ethiopian manuscripts
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: 310-825-3261
Faculty: Jessica Goldberg
Faculty: John Langdon
Graduate Seminars: Mediterranean Trade; Topics in Byzantine History
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
University of California, Los Angeles
A210 Fowler Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510
Faculty: Ioanna Kakoulli
Graduate Seminars: Byzantine Techniques and Materials in Cyprus; Conservation of Byzantine Monumental Painting
University of California, Santa barbara
Department of History of Art and Architecture
History of Art & Architecture Arts
1234 University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106-7080
Graduate Program: gd-arthi@arthistory.ucsb.edu
Faculty: Heather Badamo
Specialization; Byzantine and eastern Christian
Email: badamo@ucsb.edu
Website: https://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/people/heather-badamo
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington Library
Department of History
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9410
(805) 893-4505
Faculty: Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Specialization: Late Antiquity
Email: edigeser@ucsb.edu
Website: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/elizabeth-depalma-digeser/
Catholic University of America
Department of Greek and Latin
205 McMahon Hall
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5216
cua-greek-latin@cua.edu
Faculty: Fabio Pagani
Specialization: Reception of Greek philosophy in the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance
Email: pagani@cua.edu
Website: https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/pagani-fabio/index.html
Byzantine Greek Language and Literature, Greek Palaeography
Faculty: William E. Klingshirn
Specialization: History of Late Antiquity
Email: klingshirn@cua.edu
Website: https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/klingshirn-william/index.html
The Mediterranean World of Late Antiquity (to the 8th century)
Faculty: William J. McCarthy
Specialization: Late Antique and Patristic Literature
Email: mccarthy@cua.edu
Website: https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/mccarthy-william/index.html
Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, History of the Greek Language, Second and Third Sophistics
The courses above draw students from the Departments of History, Semitics, and Greek and Latin; Schools of Theology/Religious Studies and Philosophy; and Interdisciplinary Programs in Medieval and Byzantine Studies (MBS) and Early Christian Studies (ECS).
Program in Early Christian Studies
Center for the Study of Early Christianity
211 McMahon Hall
620 Michigan Ave., NE
Washington DC 20064
202-319-5795; csec@cua.edu
Faculty: Rev. Stefanos Alexopoulos (School of Theology and Religious Studies)
Specialization: Liturgical Studies/Sacramental Theology
Website: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/alexopoulos-stefanos/index.html
Email: alexopoulos@cua.edu
Courses: Byzantine Liturgy, Constantinople: The City and its Liturgy
Faculty: Monica Blanchard (Dept. of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures)
Specialization: Languages and Literatures of the Christian Near East/Curator, Semitics and ICOR Collections
Website: https://semitics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/blanchard-monica/index.html
Email: blanchard@cua.edu
Courses: Syriac, Classical Armenian, Old Georgian
Faculty: Aaron Butts (Dept. of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures)
Specialization: Aramaic (including Syriac), Classical Ethiopic, Christian Arabic
Website: https://semitics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/butts-aaron-m/index.html
Email: buttsa@cua.edu
Courses: Syriac Literature, Readings in Classical Ethiopic, Survey of Christian Arabic, History of the Christian Near East
Faculty: Very Rev. Mark Morozowich (Dean, School of Theology and Religious Studies)
Specialization: Historical and Systematic Theology, Liturgical Studies/Sacramental Theology
Website: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/morozowich-mark/index.html
Email: trs-dean@cua.edu
Courses: Byzantine Divine Liturgy, Liturgical Life in Jerusalem, Penance in the First Millennium
Faculty: Janet Timbie (Dept. of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures)
Coptic Language and Literature
Website: https://semitics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/timbie-janet/index.html
Email: jtimbie@att.net
Specialization: Readings in Coptic, History of the Christian Near East
Faculty: Matthias Vorwerk (School of Philosophy)
Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism
Website: https://philosophy.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/vorwerk-matthias/index.html
Email: vorwerk@cua.edu
Courses: Plotinus, Evil in Neoplatonic Philosophy
Faculty: Lev Weitz (Department of History)
Specialization: Medieval Middle East
Website: https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/weitz-lev/index.html
Email: weitz@cua.edu
Courses: Medieval Islam and Eastern Christianity
Faculty: Susan Wessel (School of Theology and Religious Studies)
Specialization: Greek and Latin Patristics
Website: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/wessel-susan/index.html
Email: wessels@cua.edu
Courses: Topics in Greek Patristics, The Cappadocian Theologians, Maximos the Confessor, Survey of Greek Patristics and the Ecumenical Councils
Faculty: Robin Darling Young (School of Theology and Religious Studies)
Specialization; History of Early Christianity, Patristic Theology, Eastern Christianity, Monasticism
Website: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/young-robin-darling/index.html
Email: youngr@cua.edu
Courses: The Formation of Christian Martyrdom, Eastern Spirituality, Early Christian Exegesis, Throne and Altar, Origen and Origenism, Natural World in Early Christianity
Program faculty are drawn from participating units of the University. See under Department of Greek and Latin for additional faculty members and courses.
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Semitics/Institute for Christian Oriental Research: manuscripts, papyri, ostraka, pottery, coins (https://libraries.catholic.edu/special-collections/semitics-icor-library/index.html). Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity (https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/institutes/eastern-christian-studies/index.html). Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies.(https://arts-sciences.catholic.edu/academics/interdisciplinary/mbs/index.html)
The Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) houses one of the world’s premiere research collections for the study of the Christian Near East. The ICOR collection includes more than 50,000 catalogued volumes as well as antiquities, photographs, and archival materials documenting Christianity in the Middle East. Of particular note is the Gerald and Barbara Weiner collection of Ethiopian manuscripts: This collection includes 183 Christian Ethiopic codices as well as 367 Christian prayer scrolls, which is among the largest collections of Ethiopian Christian manuscripts in North America. In addition, the Gerald and Barbara Weiner Collection includes 177 Islamic Arabic codices from Ethiopia, which is the larges number of such manuscripts outside of Ethiopia itself. Mention should also be made of the Professor Robert W. Thomson collection, which includes more than 3,000 items focused primarily on Armenian Christianity. These recent additions in Armenian and Ethiopic join the already world-class strengths of the collection in Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac. In addition to its immense collection, ICOR produces programming relating to Christianity in the Near East, especially lectures, workshops, conferences, and other events. ICOR also annually hosts two to three scholars as ICOR fellows: These are typically early-career scholars who benefit not only from access to the ICOR collection but also from the community of scholars at The Catholic University of America who study the Christian Near East.
City University of New York
New York city boasts the Byzantine collection at the Metropolitan Museum, the medieval collection of The Cloisters Museum, in addition to smaller by important collections at MOBIA, The American Numismatic Society, and The Hispanic Society
CUNY Graduate Center
Department of Art History
Department of History
365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016
212-817-8035
Faculty: Jennifer Ball
Email: jball@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Monasticism; The Medieval Mediterranean; Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Faculty: Cynthia Hahn
Email: chahn@hunter.cuny.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Relics and reliquaries; Saints lives
Faculty: Eric Ivison
Email: Ivison@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Byzantine History
M.A. Study and Faculty at other CUNY Campuses
These members of the CUNY faculty may serve on doctoral committees at the CUNY Graduate Center. Both Queens College and the College of Staten Island offer the possibility of an M.A. in History with a thesis on a Byzantine topic. Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College offer the Art History M.A. with faculty in Byzantine Studies.
Hendrik Dey, Hunter College, Department of Art History
Research Interests: Art of late antiquity, urbanism and archaeology of the late antique and early medieval West (c. 250-800), particularly in Italy
Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, Department of English
Research Interests: Medieval Greek poetics (12th-15th centuries), Byzantine intellectual history, iconographic expressions of power, desire and eroticism in late antiquity, gender and sexuality in late Byzantium, pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty
Michael Plekon, Baruch College, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Orthodox theology and religious community, Russia and the Russian diaspora
John Shean, La Guardia Community College, Department of Social Science
Research Interests: late antique history, the late Roman army, Christianization within the Roman and early Byzantine military
Warren Woodfin, Queens College, Departments of Art History and History
Research Interests: Art and architecture of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods, history of textiles and dress, church history, Byzantine diplomacy and foreign relations
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Museum, The Morgan Library, The Jewish Theological Seminary collection, The Jewish Museum, The Onassis Center
University of Chicago
Department of Classics
University of Chicago
Department of Classics
1010 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Faculty: Anthony Kaldellis
Email: kaldellis@uchicago.edu
Website: https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/anthony-kaldellis
Divinity School
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-702-8200
Faculty: Erin Galgay Walsh
Specialization: Early Byzantine poetry/Syriac Studies/Biblical Interpretation
Email: egwalsh@uchicago.edu
Website: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/erin-galgay-walsh
Faculty: Karin Krause
Specialization: Byzantine visual culture, Byzantine theology, visual culture of the Mediterranean area (late antique to early modern)
Email: krause@uchicago.edu
Website: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/karin-krause
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Goodspeed Manuscript Collection, Regenstein Library
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
826 Schermerhorn Hall,
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Telephone: 212-854-4505
Faculty: Holger A. Klein
Email: hak56@columbia.edu
Department of Classics
MC 2861
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-3902
Faculty: Alan Cameron, Emeritus
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Pagans and Christians in 4th and 5th century Rome (graduate seminar)
Faculty: Raffaella Cribiore
Title of courses taught 2004-5: Papyrology
Cornell University
Note: Graduate studies at Cornell are conducted through a “field” system that is semi-independent of the departments. All faculty listed below may supervise dissertations in multiple graduate fields. Before applying, prospective students are encouraged to contact faculty members for advice about which graduate field would be most appropriate.
There are ample opportunities for the study of late antique and Byzantine archaeology at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels through the newly launched Cornell Institute for Archaeology and Material Studies (http://blogs.cornell.edu/ciams/).
Department of Classics
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-2471
Department of History
450 McGraw Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-8862
Faculty: Eric Rebillard (joint appointment in Classics and History)
Graduate fields: Archaeology; Classics; History; Medieval Studies; Near Eastern Studies
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught within the past two years: Christianity and the Transformations of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity; Sharing the City: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in Late Antiquity
Department of the History of Art
GM08 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-9861
siyanag@icloud.com
Faculty: Benjamin Anderson
Email: bwa32@cornell.edu
Website: https://arthistory.cornell.edu/benjamin-anderson
Graduate fields: Archaeology; Classics; History of Art; Medieval Studies; Near Eastern Studies
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught within the past two years: Constantinople / Istanbul, 330-1566; Byzantine Iconoclasm, Art of Late Antiquity, Hagia Sophia, and Medieval Cosmologies.
Department of Near Eastern Studies
409 White Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-6275
Faculty: Kim Haines-Eitzen (joint appointment in Classics and Near Eastern Studies)
Graduate fields: Classics; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Medieval Studies; Near Eastern Studies
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught within the last two years: Sound, Silence & the Sacred; History and Literature of Early Christianity; Suffering and the Early Christian Imagination: Apocalypticism, Gnosticism, Asceticism; Gender and Sexuality in Late Antiquity
Duke University
The Divinity School
407 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0968
Faculty: Meredith L.D. Riedel
Email: mriedel@div.duke.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2001-2013: Byzantine Iconography, Byzantium and Islam, Byzantium and the Bible, History of Eastern Orthodoxy
Department of Religion
118 Gray Building, Box 90964
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919-660-3510
Faculty: Lucas Van Rompay
Department of Art and Art History
112 East Duke Building
Campus Drive
Durham NC 27708
Tel: 919-684-2224
Faculty: Annabel Wharton
University of Florida
Department of History
PO Box 117320
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Tel: (352) 392-0271, (352) 392-2075
The History Department has a strong concentration in late antique and Byzantine studies in cooperation with the Department of Classics and the Center for Greek Studies and drawing on the resources of diverse faculty from the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Our particular strengths are Late Antiquity, Byzantine Christianity, and Byzantium and the Slavs. Besides graduate seminars and advanced undergraduate courses on Byzantine-related topics, we have an active graduate Byzantine Greek reading group and a cluster of MA and PhD students working on Byzantine topics. In recent years one faculty member and one doctoral student have won fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks.
Faculty: Andrea Sterk
Email: sterk@ufl.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught since 2005:
Graduate Seminars: Mission, Conversion, Christianization (200-1000); Late Antiquity
Advanced Undergraduate: Pagans, Christians, Barbarians: The World of Late Antiquity; “New Rome”: Church and Culture in the Byzantine Empire; History of World Christianity, 100-1300; Women in Ancient and Medieval Christianity; The Medieval World; seminar: “Converting” the Mediterranean World
Faculty: Florin Curta
Email: fcurta@ufl.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught:
Graduate: The Empire and the barbarians; Economy and society in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages; Ethnicity in the Middle Ages; The archaeology of the Middle Ages; Conversion in the Middle Ages
Undergraduate: Early Middle Ages; Byzantine History; Medieval Russia; Medieval Archaeology; Holy War in the Middle Ages; The History of Orthodox Christianity; Medieval Archaeology Field Practicum
Faculty: Kostas Kapparis
Email: kapparis@ufl.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught:
Graduate: Byzantine Paleography and textual criticism (special topic); Readings in Byzantine Literature (reading colloquium); Latin Christian Authors (including a significant component of Greek Church Fathers in translation); Lactantius and the Era of Constantine.
Undergraduate: The Literature and Culture of Byzantium; Rome and Early Christianity
Florida State University
Department of Art History
1019 William Johnston Building
143 Honors Way
Tallahassee, FL 32306 – 1233
https://arthistory.fsu.edu/
Faculty: Lynn Jones
Specialization: Byzantine, Armenian, Islamic art, architecture, and material culture
Website: https://arthistory.fsu.edu/lynn-jones/
Faculty: Erika Loic
Specialization: Global medieval art and material culture, manuscript illumination, digital humanities
Website: https://arthistory.fsu.edu/erika-loic/
Faculty: Kyle Killian
Specialization: Western medieval architectural history, cultural heritage studies, medieval Cyprus
Website: https://arthistory.fsu.edu/kyle-killian/
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Study Collection, Art History; Special Collections, Strozier Library; Digital Humanities Innovation Center, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, FSU Ringling Campus, Sarasota FL
Department of Classics
205 Dodd Hall
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510
Faculty: Andrea U. De Giorgi
Specialization: Roman Archaeology and Late Antiquity
Email: adegiorgi@fsu.edu
Website: https://classics.fsu.edu/person/andrea-u-de-giorgi
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Florida State University
625 University Way, PO Box 3061540
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1540
(850) 644-3727
Faculty: Robert Romanchuk
Title: Pribic Family Associate Professor of Slavic
Specialization: Byzantium and the Slavs (Byzantine monastic pedagogy/psychagogy, hermeneutics, and rhetoric in Slavic; Byzantine epic/Mediterranean fiction in Slavic)
Email: rromanchuk@fsu.edu
Website: https://modlang.fsu.edu/person/robert-romanchuk
Fordham University
Department of Theology
441 E. Fordham Rd
Bronx, NY 10458
Theology@fordham.edu
Orthodoxy@fordham.edu
Faculty: George Demacopoulos
Email: Demacopoulos@fordham.edu
Faculty: Aristotle Papanikolaou
Faculty: Emanuel Fiano
Email: fiano@fordham.edu
Specialization: Syriac and Coptic Christianity. Christian/Jewish interaction. Greco-Roman world
Faculty: Nicholas Paul (History)
Large faculty in Early and Medieval Christianity
George Washington University
Department of Art
Smith Hall of Art, Room A101
801 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-6085
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Icons-Manuscripts Connoisseurship; Medieval Byzantine Small Objects
Harvard University
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2377
Faculty: Ioli Kalavrezou Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Byzantine Art
Email: kalavrez@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/ioli-kalavrezou
Faculty: Eurydice Georganteli
Email: egeorganteli@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/eurydice-georganteli
Faculty: Christina Maranci
Email: cmaranci@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/christina-maranci
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Harvard Art Museum, Byzantine coin collection, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Museum and Art Collections
Department of History
Robinson Hall
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617- 495-2556
history@fas.harvard.edu
Faculty: Michael McCormick
Specialization: Late Antique and Medieval History
Email: sohpchair@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-mccormick
Faculty: Dimiter Angelov
Specialization: Byzantine History
Email: dangelov@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/dimiter-angelov
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Dumbarton Oaks, Fogg Museum of Arts, Houghton Library
Department of Classics
204 Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4027
classics@fas.harvard.edu
Faculty: Alexander Riehle
Specialization: Byzantine literature, especially rhetoric and epistolography; sociology of literature; textual criticism and editorial theory
Email: ariehle@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/ariehle/bio
Faculty: Panagiotis Roilos
Specialization: Byzantine cultural and intellectual history; secular literature; rhetoric; classics in Byzantium
Email: email: roilos@fas.harvard.edu
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: art collection and coin collection in Sackler Museum; manuscripts in the Houghton Library; papyri; special seminars and lectures in Byzantine studies sponsored by the Standing Committee of the FAS, on Medieval Studies; D.O. Committee on Medieval Studies Exchange program.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Art History (MA, PhD)
935 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312-996-3303
Faculty: Heather E. Grossman
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught:
AH 441/540:Topics in Medieval Art and Architecture. Recent topics have included:
Interactions: Cultures Across the Mediterranean; Constantinople/Istanbul; The Medieval Mediterranean City; Responding to Medieval Architecture and its Arts
Department of Classics
4080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801-3676
Tel: 217-333-1008
Faculty: Danuta Shanzer, Emerita, Classics
Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (217) 333-1155
Faculty: Ralph Mathisen
Specialization: Late Antiquity
*Ph.D. program with a concentration in Late Antiquity
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: One of the premire Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the world; Spurlock and Krannert Museums
Indiana University
Department of History
Ballantine Hall 844
1020 E Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
Faculty: Deborah M. Deliyannis
Specialization: Late antiquity
Email: ddeliyan@iu.edu
Website: https://history.indiana.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/deliyannis_deborah.html
Faculty: Daniel Caner
Specialization: Late antiquity
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Department of Central Eurasian Studies Program in Ancient Studies Medieval Studies Institute Indiana University Art Museum Lilly Library of rare manuscripts
Department of History of Art
Radio/TV Building 316
1229 E. Seventh Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Faculty: Sarah Bassett
Email: sebasset@iu.edu
Website: https://arthistory.indiana.edu/about/faculty/bassett-sarah.html
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Art Museum, Lilly Library of rare manuscripts.
Department of Religious Studies
Sycamore Hall 230
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
Faculty: Jeremy Schott
Email: jmschott@indiana.edu
Website: https://religiousstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/schott-jeremy.html
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Elementary Syriac; Advanced Readings in Syriac; Elementary Coptic; Advanced Readings in Coptic; Sacrifice; Early Christian Thought; Gnostic Religion and Literature
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Global and International Studies Building 3050
355 North Eagleson Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1105
Faculty: Daniel Caner
Email: dcaner@iu.edu
Website: https://melc.indiana.edu/people/core-faculty/caner-daniel.html
Other university resources in the Byzantine field:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Program in Ancient Studies
Medieval Studies Institute
Indiana University Art Museum
Lilly Library of rare manuscripts
Thomas J. Mathiesen (Musicology)
Jamsheed Chosky (Central Eurasian Studies)
Johns Hopkins University
Department of History of Art
268 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685
Tel: 410-516-7117
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Secular Arts of Byzantium; Early Christian and Byzantine Textiles; Late Antique and Byzantine Floor Mosaics; Medieval Art and Architecture of Venice; Early Christian and Byzantine Wall Mosaics.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: The department works closely with the Walters Art Museum, which has rich holdings in Byzantine and medieval art and manuscripts.
University of Kentucky
Department of Art
207 Fine Arts Building
Lexington, KY 40506
Tel: 589-257-2727
The M.A. program is without specialization. A student may elect a specialization through coursework and M.A. thesis topic, but no formal recognition of that focus is made.
No Ph.D. program in a Byzantine field.
Faculty: Christine Havice
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Byzantine Art; Studies in Genre: Late Antique Portraiture; Illuminated Manuscripts
Faculty: Alice Christ
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Arts of Early Christian Rome (II-VII Century)
Note: Students can prepare for Byzantine study at the M.A. level through art, history, and language courses, but there is no formal Byzantine Studies program for graduate students.
Department of History
1715 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Tel: 859-257-6861 [Link]
Faculty: Robert Olson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Fall of Byzantium: Emergence of Ottoman Empire
Note: No information has been received from David Olster.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: 2 Russian icons
Loyola University Chicago
Department of Classical Studies
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Crown Center 581
Chicago, IL 60660
Tel: 773-508-3650
Faculty: Jacqueline Long
Titles of Byzantine & late antique courses taught : Ammianus Marcellinus, Augustine, Confessions, The Historia Augusta.
Byzantine related faculty: Greg Dobrov, among more classical interests, also Byzantine hymnography. James G. Keenan, Greek, Papyrology (covering other periods also), Roman Law, Byzantine Egypt.
Note: In Fall 2011 the Department will begin to offer a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Studies, useful to students in all fields who need competence in ancient Greek and Latin for graduate studies.
Department of History
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Crown Center 501
Chicago, IL 60660
Tel: 773-508-2221
Faculty: Leslie Dossey at this time only teaching undergrad courses
Marquette University
Department of Theology
Department of Theology
Marquette Hall 115
1217 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 288-7170
Faculty: Marcus Plested
Specialization: Patristic, Byzantine, and Modern Orthodox Theology
Email: marcus.plested@marquette.edu
Website: https://www.marquette.edu/theology/directory/marcus-plested.php
Faculty: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Specialization: Syriac Studies and Early Christianity, with special interests in hagiography and sacred narrative
Email: jeannenicole.saint-laurent@marquette.edu
Website: https://www.marquette.edu/theology/directory/jeanne-nicole-saint-laurent.php
Faculty: Michael Cover
Specialization: New Testament and early Judaism, particularly the Pauline letters, Philo of Alexandria, and their reception in early Christianity
Email: michael.cover@marquette.edu
Website: https://www.marquette.edu/theology/directory/michael-cover.php
University of Maryland
Department of English
Faculty: Vessela Valiavitcharska
Specialization: Byzantine rhetoric and education / Old Church Slavonic rhetoric and education
Email: vvaliav@umd.edu
Website: https://english.umd.edu/directory/vessela-valiavitcharska
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Dumbarton Oaks, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Center for Hellenic Studies, Walters Art Museum
McGill University
Art History & Communications Studies
McGill University
McCall McBain Arts Building, Room 155
853 Sherbrooke Street
West Montreal
Quebec H3A 0G5
514-398-2850
Faculty: Cecily Hilsdale
Email: cecily.hilsdale@mcgill.ca
Website: www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/people/faculty/hilsdale
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: The Medieval Gift: Anthropological Theory and Art Historical Practice, Medieval Encounters with Islam, The Medieval City: Constantinople, Visual Cultures of the Medieval Mediterranean, The Pre-Modern Object
University of Michigan
Department of History
555 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Phone (734) 764-6305
Fax (734) 647-4881
Faculty: Rudi Paul Lindner
Teaches Byzantine and Ottoman history and a graduate seminar on Byzantine and Turkic Historiography.
Faculty: Raymond Van Dam
Teaches courses and seminars on late antiquity and early Byzantine History
Department of Classics
2160 Angell Hall
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel:734-763-4959
Faculty: Donald Cameron
Teaches small graduate courses in Byzantine Greek in alternate years.
Faculty: David Potter
Gives annual seminars on the history of late antiquity
Faculty: Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Offers courses on late antique philosophy
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Papyrology Room, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Museum of Art, Rare Books and Special Collections
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus
Department of Art History
338 Heller Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-6384
Faculty: Matthew Canepa
Prof. Canepa is a specialist in the art and archaeology of the late Roman/early Byzantine Empire and pre-Islamic Iran. His research focuses on the intersection of art, ritual and power in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia and the wider Iranian world. He advises graduate students interested in the art, architecture and archaeology of Late Rome/Early Byzantium, Persia and the Iranian world.
Late Antique and Byzantine Courses taught: ARTH 5188 – Late Roman-Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Art of Persia and the Ancient Iranian World: art and archaeology of the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires, ARTH 3009 – Medieval Mediterranean and Western Asia and various graduate seminars.
Department of Anthropology
395 Humphrey Center
301 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Faculty: Peter Wells
Prof. Wells specializes in the European Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman Period, and the early medieval period. His research interests include the Fall of the Roman Empire, Roman-Medieval Transition in Europe, the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and the interaction between Roman, Germanic and Celtic cultures.
Anth 4043 – Archaeology of Northern Europe, The Archaeology of the British Isles (Anth 5442), and various graduate seminars
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
245 Nicholson Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Faculty: Oliver Nicholson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught:: Ages of Constantine, S. Augustine of Hippo and Justinian and Muhammad (undergraduate); Late Antique Latin (undergraduate and graduate)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: small collection of papyri, one or two of which are Late Antique.
Note: Prof. Nicholson teaches Late Antiquity, but his undergraduate teaching is heavily Latin with a Byzantine twist (e.g., Adamnan, De locis sanctis). The Classics Department is very varied, and the campus is immense, with a thriving Center for Mediaeval Studies.
Faculty: Philip Sellew
Prof. Sellew’s research and teaching interests include early Christianity and the language and literature of Egyptian Christianity (and Gnosticism too) in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Late Antique and Byzantine Courses Taught: Elementary Coptic, Grk 5360 – Literature; Religious Texts, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World
Department of History
1110 Heller Hall
271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Faculty: Giancarlo Casale
Prof. Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, and holds interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires.
Department of Music (Musicology)
100 Ferguson Hall, 2106 4th St S,
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-5740
Faculty: Gabriela Currie
Prof. Currie’s research interests and publications concern medieval music theory, the intersection between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras, iconography, and travel accounts as early ethnographies of Byzantine, Balkan, and Ottoman musical traditions.
Title of Byzantine Courses Taught: MUS 5950 – Music and Culture along the Silk Road, MUS 8640 – Medieval Musical Thought, HSEM – Politics, Nationalism, and Music in the Balkans
Center for Medieval Studies
271 19th Ave S,
1020 Heller Hall,
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-0805
The interdisciplinary home for Medieval Studies at University of Minnesota.
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65311
Tel: 573-882-6711
Faculty: Marcus Rautman
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology; Late Antique Art and Archaeology
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Department of Music, Center for the Humanities
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
Tel: 314-516-5980
Faculty: Diane Touliatos
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography; Comparative Medieval Music: Western and Byzantine Music; 2001 Women Composers in Ancient Greece and Byzantium; independent directed studies in medieval Byzantine music
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: microfilms in medieval Byzantine music
New York University
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
New York, NY 10021-0178
Tel: 212-992-5800
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty: Thelma Thomas (as of 2007-08)
Email: Tkt2004@nyu.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2011-2013: Byzantine Art, 9th-15th Centuries; Portraying the Holy Man in Late Antiquity.
Special collections, facilities, museums, etc. nearby
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, The Brooklyn Museum
Department of History
53 Washington Square South, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212- 998-8600
Faculty: Kostis Smyrlis
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2006-7: Topics in Medieval History: Crusade and Trade; Byzantine History Survey, 4th-9th c.
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2007-8, Fall: Topics in Medieval History: Crusade and Trade; Byzantine History Survey, 4th-9th c.; Spring: Byzantine History Survey, 10th-15th c.; Graduate Seminar: Byzantium and the West, 4th-15th c.
No Byzantine-related M.A. program in the Department of History
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Papamarkou Endowment specifically for Byzantine acquisitions at the Bobst Library
University of North Carolina
Department of Art
111 Hayes Art Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
Tel: 919-962-2015
Courses – 2004-2006: (Art 264) in Medieval Art; (Art 351) on the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land; (Art 471) on Art in Northern Europe, 1300 – 1550; the End of the Middle Ages
Seminars – Spring 2004: Seminar (Art 961) in Medieval Icon Painting: Byzantine, Crusader and Italian: The Problem of Chrysography; Fall 2005: Seminar (Art 961) in Medieval Ornament; Fall 2007 (projected) Seminar (Art 962) The Crusader Artistic Impact on the Italian Maniera Greca
Effective 1 July 2008, Jaroslav Folda will retire as N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art at UNC.
Faculty: Dorothy Verkerk
Titles of Byzantine-related courses taught 1998-99: Medieval Architecture (intermediate level undergraduate); Medieval Ivories (seminar);1999-00: Ornament (seminar)
Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
Tel: 919-962-7191
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-2000: Art of Mosaic; Topography of Constantinople; Art in the Age of Justinian and Theodora; Women of Byzantium; Early Christian and Byzantine Art; Byzantine Civilization
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Ackland Museum has a few small Byzantine objects, and the Duke University Library has a collection of Byzantine manuscripts.
Note: There is a Medieval Studies minor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; it includes Byzantine Studies; the graduate Medieval Studies minor can be applied to Byzantine Studies.
Northwestern University
Department of Art History
Kresge Centennial Hall-Room 3-400
1880 Campus Drive
(847) 491-7077
The University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame sponsors the field of Byzantine Studies through its Medieval Institute, university press (e.g. the Michael Psellos series), and several departments within the College of Arts & Letters, including Anthropology, History and especially Theology. The Hesburgh Libraries system has one of the nation’s largest collections in Byzantine Studies, including the Milton V. Anastos Collection. There are currently several PhD students at the university who are writing dissertations in Byzantine Studies and related fields, and the Medieval Institute sponsors one of the country’s only postdoctoral programs in Byzantine Studies.
Medieval Institute
Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.631.6603; medinst@nd.edu
Faculty: Alexander Beihammer
Specialization: Byzantine History
Email: abeihamm@nd.edu
Faculty: Alexis Torrance
Specialization: Byzantine Theology
Email: atorran1@nd.edu
Faculty: Gabriel Radle
Specialization: Byzantine Liturgy
Email: gradle@nd.edu
Faculty: Nina Glibetic
Specialization: Byzantine/Slavic Liturgy
Email: nglibetic@nd.edu
Faculty: Robin Jensen
Specialization: Early Christian/Byzantine Art
Email: rjensen3@nd.edu
Faculty: Yury Avvakumov
Specialization: East-West Ecclesiastical History
Email: yavvakum@nd.edu
Faculty: Khaled Anatolios
Specialization: Early Christian/Byzantine Theology
Email: khaled.anatolios.1@nd.edu
Faculty: Jeffrey Wickes
Specialization: Syriac Christianity
Faculty: Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
Specialization: Early Christianity, Ancient Philosophy
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: We house a dedicated Byzantine Reading Room which holds the Milton Anestos Collection. David Gura (dgura@nd.edu) curates our Byzantine MSS collection. The Snite/Raclin Murphy Museum of Art on campus houses a number of Byzantine Artefacts.
Ohio State University
Department of History
106 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: 614-292-2674
Faculty: Kristina M. Sessa
Email: sessa.3@osu.edu
Titles of Byzantine Courses taught 2007-8: Gender and the Household in the Late Roman and Early Christian Empire (graduate seminar)
Other Byzantine resources at OSU: Hilandar Research Library (the largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform in the world); Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies (a special library and collection of squeezes, offering fellowships, conferences, and workshops); Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia; Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey and other programs and Centers listed here.
University of Ottawa
Department of Classics & Religious Studies
10th Floor, Desmarais Building
55 Laurier Ave. East
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Tel: 613-562-5714
Museum of Antiquities
Faculty: Geoffrey Greatrex
Email: greatrex@uottawa.ca
Faculty: Jitse Dijkstra
Email: jdijkstr@uottawa.ca
Faculty: Richard Burgess
Email: rburgess@uottawa.ca
Website: https://arts.uottawa.ca/cla-srs/en/people (for all colleagues)
The department offers a two-year M.A. in Late Antiquity, which may focus on the Roman or post-Roman West, but equally on the early Byzantine empire. The four faculty members listed have particular strengths in chronicles, numismatics, the Second Sophistic, late Roman/early Byzantine Egypt, papyrology, relations with Sasanian Persia in Late Antiquity and the period of Justinian.
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Museum of Greco-Roman antiquities, departmental library
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History of Art
Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe History of Art Building 3405
Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6208
215.898.8327
Faculty: Ivan Drpić
Specialization: Byzantine art history
Email: drpic@sas.upenn.edu
Website: https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/ivan-drpic%CC%81
There are possibilities for participation in archaeological fieldwork through AAMW program.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum collection includes Byzantine objects and papyri from Egypt and the Middle East.
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Art History
229 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-865-6326
Faculty: Anthony Cutler
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Survey of Byzantine Art; Methods of Research in Byzantine Art (seminar)
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: icons in Palmer Museum; manuscript facsimiles in Rare Books Collection
Princeton University
Department of Classics
141 East Pyne
Princeton, New Jersey
Tel: 609-258-3951
Faculty: Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis
Email: ebourbou@princeton.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2011-13: Homer After Homer: the reception of Homeric Epic in Late Antiquity, the Greek and Latin Middle Ages, and Modern Europe; Introduction to Post-classical Greek Language and Literature from the Late Antique to the Byzantine Era; Problems in Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek Literature – Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek Historiography 3rd-9th c.; Graduate Tutorials: Procopius; Pachymeres.
Department of History
129 Dickinson Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
Tel: 609-258-4159
Faculty: John Haldon
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Transformation of the Ancient World: Byzantine History 500-1200; Nomads and sedentary states: from the Huns to the Mongols; Byzantium in the 10th century (undergraduate); Problems in Byzantine History; Sources and Problems (graduate); Introduction to the Professional Study of History (graduate)
Faculty: Jack Tannous
Email: jtannous@princeton.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2012-14: Conversion: Christianization and Islamization; The World of Late Antiquity (undergraduate); Monotheism and Society from Constantine to Harun al-Rashid (graduate).
Faculty: Teresa Shawcross
Email: cshawcro@princeton.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2013-14: The Crusades; Venice and the Mediterranean World (undergraduate)
Faculty: Alan Stahl
Email: astahl@princeton.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-14: Ancient and Medieval Coinage (Graduate); The Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Numismatic Evidence (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Department of Art and Archaeology
Department of Art & Archaeology
Princeton University
3S-2 Green Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Tel: (609) 258-3781 Fax: (609) 258-0103
Faculty: Charles Barber
Specialization: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine Art
Email: cebarber@princeton.edu
Website: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/charlie-barber
Faculty: Patricia Blessing
Specialization: Islamic Art and Architecture
Email: pblessing@princeton.edu
Website: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/patricia-blessing
Faculty: Beatrice Kitzinger
Specialization: Western Medieval Art
Email: bkitzinger@princeton.edu
Website: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/beatrice-kitzinger
Director, Index of Medieval Art: Pamela Patton
Specialization: Medieval Art History
Email: ppatton@princeton.edu
Website: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/pamela-patton
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Medieval Index is housed in the department and is staffed by five scholars of Medieval Art. The Visual Resources Collection in the department has notable archives of material from expeditions to Antioch, Mt. Athos, and Mt. Sinai. Marquand Library in the department is one of the premier research libraries for the study of art history. The Princeton University Art Museum houses an extensive collection of Late Antique, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine objects. Firestone Library has an extensive collection of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine manuscripts. The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies houses a rich community of faculty and fellows devoted to Hellenic Studies.
Princeton Theological seminary
Department of History and Ecumenics
64 Mercer St.
P.O. Box 821
Princeton, NJ 08542-0803
(609) 497-7910
joy.crosley@ptsem.edu
Faculty: Mary K. Farag
Specialization: Christianity in Late Antiquity
Email: mary.farag@ptsem.edu
Website: https://www.ptsem.edu/people/mary-k-farag
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Special Collections; Princeton University Art Museum; Princeton University Libraries Manuscript Division; access via local public transport to and within driving distance of all facilities in NJ and in the Philadelphia and New York metropolitan areas
Queen’s University
Department of History
Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Tel: 613-533-2150
Faculty: Richard Greenfield
Email: greenfie@queensu.ca
Titles/topics of Byzantine courses taught 2009-2015: Undergraduate lectures: ‘Byzantium’; ‘The Crusades’. Combined graduate/undergraduate seminars: ‘Byzantine Society’; ‘Medieval Mediterranean Societies’; ‘The Crusades and the Latin Kingdoms’; ‘Medieval Greece’. Graduate only seminars: ‘The construction of orthodoxy and unorthodoxy in Byzantium’; ‘Religious Identity, dissidence and interaction in the pre-modern Mediterranean’; ‘Medieval Greece’; ‘Saints and Sorcerers – the construction of sanctity and magic in Byzantium’.
Note: Our PhD and MA program includes broader opportunities to work on the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean with Drs Adnan Husain (Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World), Antony D’Elia (Italian Renaissance), Ariel Salzman (Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean), and Nancy van Deusen (Iberia, Colonial Latin America). Further opportunities for work that involves Late Antique history and Mediterranean archaeology are available in co-operation with the Department of Classics and particularly Dr. George Bevan (Late Antiquity, Syriac, Papyrology, Digital Humanities): http://www.queensu.ca/classics/graduate
Saint Louis University
Department of History
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
Tel: 314-977-2910
Faculty: Warren Treadgold
Email: treadgw@slu.edu
M.A. program in Late Ancient and Byzantine History; Ph.D. program in Medieval History (including Byzantine History)
Byzantine courses taught 2012-13: Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate lecture); Introduction to Byzantine History (seminar); Byzantine History (seminar)
2002-03: Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar); 2003-4 (on leave); 2004-05: Byzantine courses taught 2013-14: Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate lecture; The Byzantine Historians (seminar); Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar)
The Department of History sponsors The Byzantine Forum, a series of lectures and discussions on topics of Byzantine interest, as well as the similar Crusader Studies Forum. There are currently six graduate students in the Byzantine program.
Department of Theological Studies
Humanities Building #124
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108-3414
Phone: 314-977-2881
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Vatican Library Manuscript Collection available on microfilm, the only complete collection in the United States; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; university library has excellent periodicals section; Lewis Annex contains resources for Early Church.
Note: Fellowships are offered by the Vatican Microfilm Library.
Seton Hall University
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
Department of Ecclesiastical History
400 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, New Jersey
Tel: 973-275-5845
Faculty: Ines Angeli Murzaku
Email: ines.murzaku@shu.edu
Titles of Byzantine (or related) courses taught: Eastern Christianity; Mediterranean Christianity; Monasticism; History of Christianity; Medieval Christianity; History of Spirituality; Worshipping with the Fathers of the Church; Ecumenical Movement in the Church
Other Byzantine resources at SHU:Valente Collection, The Monsignor James C. Turro Theology Library; Monsignor William Noé Field University Archives and Special Collections Center; Eparchy of Passaic; Seton Hall Roman coin collection in the Archives/Special Collections; Drew University
Tufts University
Department of History of Art and Architecture
11 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
Faculty: Alice Isabella Sullivan (and Director of Graduate Studies)
Specialization: Medieval art, architecture, and visual culture in Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres; image theory; historiography; patronage; monasticism; cross-cultural interactions
Email: alice.sullivan@tufts.edu
Website: https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/alice-sullivan
MA in History of Art; MA in History of Art and Museum Studies
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Tufts University Special Collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, printed books, fragments, and facsimiles; Tufts Art Galleries; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Museum of Russian Icons; Harvard Art Museums.
Department of History
010 East Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Faculty: David Proctor
Specialization: Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations
Email: david.proctor@tufts.edu
Website: https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/david-proctor
MA in History of Art; MA in History of Art and Museum Studies
Courses taught on Byzantium or with significant elements dealing with Byzantium: History 58/Classics 39–Byzantines and Their World (may be taken at the graduate level with additional meetings and readings); History 101/Classics 108–Alexander the Great: History, Myth, Legend, and Legacy; History 156/Classics 109–Passion, Power, and Piety: The Voices of Byzantium; History 157/Classics 110–Empresses, Saints,& Scholars: The Women of Byzantium; History 158–The Balkans since 1453 (examines aspects of Byzantine legacy).
simon Fraser University
Department of Humanities
Department of Humanities
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
T: 778.782.4094 | E: human@sfu.ca
Faculty: Sabrina C. Higgins
Specialization: Late Antique Egypt, Marian Studies, Archaeology, Art History, Religious Transformation, Sacred Landscapes, Early Christianity, Gender and Agency Theory, Late Antique Monasticism, Eastern Christianity, Material Culture of Religion, Digital Humanities
Email: shiggins@sfu.ca
Website: https://www.sfu.ca/humanities/people/faculty/s-higgins.html
Faculty: Dimitris Krallis
Specialization: Byzantine Studies, Social, political, economic and intellectual history, Modern reception of Byzantium
Email: dkrallis@sfu.ca
Website: https://www.sfu.ca/humanities/people/faculty/d-krallis.html
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Archaeology Laboratories
University of Southern California
Department of Art History
3501 Trousdale Parkway, THH 355 MC 0351
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0351
(213) 740-4552
arthist@dornsife.usc.edu
Faculty: Ann Marie Yasin (joint appointment in Art History and Classics)
Email: yasin@usc.edu
Specialization; Roman, Late Antique, and Early Byzantine architecture and material culture; temporality and the built environment; ancient urbanism; monuments and commemoration; sacred landscapes and material culture of religion; Roman and late antique Italy, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Middle East
Titles of Byzantine courses taught recently: Timescapes of the Premodern World; Materiality and Memory; Late Antique Cityscapes; Collecting the Sacred
Website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/clas/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=10081
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus or nearby: USC Special Collections, Getty Museum (Getty Center and Villa), Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library and Art Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, USC Fisher Museum
Department of Classics
3560 Watt Way, PED 130
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0652
(213) 760-3676
prijic@usc.edu
Faculty: Ann Marie Yasin (joint appointment in Art History and Classics)
Specialization: Roman, Late Antique, and Early Byzantine architecture and material culture; temporality and the built environment; ancient urbanism; monuments and commemoration; sacred landscapes and material culture of religion; Roman and late antique Italy, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Middle East
Titles of Byzantine courses taught recently: Graduate seminars: Timescapes of the Premodern World; Materiality and Memory; Late Antique Cityscapes; Collecting the Sacred
Email: yasin@usc.edu
Website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/clas/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1008194
Faculty: Alexandre Roberts
Specialization: Byzantine and Middle Eastern intellectual history; history of science and religion; non-Muslims in the Islamic world; alchemy
Titles of Byzantine courses taught recently: Introduction to Byzantine Studies (graduate seminar); Greek Paleography (graduate seminar); Science and Empire from Baghdad to Byzantium
Email: robe941@usc.edu
Website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/clas/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1081060
Faculty: Brandon Bourgeois
Specialization: The Roman legal and political traditions; Roman Republican and imperial history and literature; late antique/early Byzantine history and literature; rhetoric and oratory; reception studies; Classica Africana (“black classicism”); religions of the ancient Mediterranean
Email: brandon.bourgeois@usc.edu
Website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/clas/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091828
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: USC Doheny Library and Special Collections, Getty Museum (Getty Center and Villa), Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library and Art Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, USC Fisher Museum
Van Hunnick History Department
3502 Trousdale Parkway, SOS 153
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
(213) 740-1657
Faculty: Maya Maskarinec
Email: maskarin@usc.edu
Specialization: Late antique and early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Rome; urban history; hagiography; historiography; legal history
Faculty: Jason Glenn
Email: jkglenn@usc.edu
Specialization: Political, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of the the early Middle Ages
Faculty: Jay Rubenstein
Email: jayruben@usc.edu
Specialization: Cultural and intellectual history of the High Middle Ages, with emphases on the Crusades, monasticism, biblical exegesis and prophetic thought
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: USC Center for the Premodern World, USC Visual Studies Research Institute, USC Libraries and Special Collections, USC Fisher Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center and Getty Villa), Getty Research Institute, Getty Conservation Institute, Huntington Library and Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Library Special Collections
Southern Methodist University
Department of Religious Studies
Graduate Program in Religious Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750133
Dallas, TX 75275-0133
gradreli@smu.edu or phogan@smu.edu (Program Coordinator Pamela Hogan)
214.768.2432 (office of Pamela Hogan) or 1.888.THEOLOGY (press 2, 3)
Faculty: James Lee
Specialization: History of Christianity, early Christian spirituality and the Bible, the
life and thought of Augustine, Christian mysticism, Eastern Christianity, ecclesiology,
medieval theology & philosophy, Catholic literature & theology, monasticism, theological
anthropology & soteriology
Email: jklee@smu.edu
Website: https://www.smu.edu/Perkins/FacultyAcademics/FacultyListingA-
Z/Lee
Faculty: John Lamoreaux
Specialization: Early Arabic religious literature; Islamic law; political Islam and
extremism; Islam and religious minorities.
Areas of Teaching: Islamic studies; history of Christianity; political Islam and extremism
in the Arabic-speaking Middle East; theory and method in the study of religion.
Email: jclam@smu.edu
Website: https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Religious-
Studies/People/Faculty/Lamoreaux
Personal Website: http://www.johnclamoreaux.org/index.html
Stanford University
Department of Art and Art History
Nathan Cummings Art Building
Main Office – Room 101
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2018
Main Office Phone:650-723-3404
Faculty: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003-04: Medieval Image Theory; Virginity and Power: Mary in the Middle Ages.
Other faculty include Katherine Miller (Medieval Mediterranean and Spain)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Post-Byzantine icons (mostly Russian)
*Prof. Pentcheva hopes to create a small graduate program in Byzantine Art
University of Toronto
Department of Art History
University of Toronto
Room 6036 Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 Canada
arthistory@utoronto.ca
Faculty: Jill Caskey
Email: Jill.caskey@utoronto.ca
Specialization: Mediterranean art, architecture; patronage; medieval church treasuries; pilgrimage
Faculty: Adam S. Cohen
Email: as.cohen@utoronto.ca
Specialization: European medieval art; manuscripts; Jewish art
Faculty: Heba Mostafa
Email: h.mostafa@utoronto.ca
Specialization: Early Islamic art and architecture; connections between early Islamic, Christian, and Jewish arts
Faculty (Near and Middle Eastern Studies): Ruba Kana’an
Email: ruba.kanaan@utoronto.ca
Specialization: Islamic art and architecture; museum studies
Resources on campus include: the Malcove Collection of late antique and Byzantine art and post-Byzantine icons in the University of Toronto Art Centre; extensive late antique and Byzantine holdings at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Fisher Rare Book and Manuscript library contains medieval Greek manuscripts, facsimiles, and papyri. The Stathas Collection of over 2,000 volumes in the library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS; https://pims.ca/) supplemented the Greek Index Project, a computerized information-access system that in the 1990s numbered ca. 40,000 Greek manuscripts (integrated into Pinakes since 2008).
Staff members at PIMS include:
Linda Safran
Specialization; Byzantine art and architecture
Email: linda.safran@utoronto.ca
T. Allan Smith
Specialization: Russian church history and theology
Email: allan.smith@utoronto.ca
The Centre for Medieval Studies (https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/) includes faculty with interests in late antique literature (Cillian O’Hogan; cillian.ohogan@utoronto.ca) and Byzantine epics and novels (Dorothea Kullmann; dorothea.kullmann@utoronto.ca). The Toronto School of Theology, Regis College, and the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies have faculty in Patristics.
Additional resources in Toronto: the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has Byzantine ivories; Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Art.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of History
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences
915 Volunteer Blvd 6th Floor
Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: 865-974-5421 • Fax: 865-974-3915
Email: history@utk.edu
Faculty: Felege-Selam Yirga
Specialization: Early Byzantine History
Email: fyirga@utk.edu
Website: https://history.utk.edu/people/felege-selam-yirga/
Faculty: Matthew Gillis
Specialization: Early Medieval Europe
Email: mgillis1@utk.edu
Website: http://history.utk.edu/people/matthew-gillis/
Faculty: Jacob Latham
Specialization: Late Antiquity
Email: jlatham3@utk.edu
Website: http://history.utk.edu/people/jacob-latham/
Faculty: Christine Shepardson
Specialization; Late Antiquity
Email: cshepard@utk.edu
Website: http://history.utk.edu/people/christine-shepardson/
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Marco Institute; Hodges Library Special Collections (Medieval Manuscript Facsimiles); McClung Museum
Temple University
Department of Art History
Art History Department
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia PA 19122
215-777-9165 | arthisto@temple.edu
Faculty: Joseph Kopta
Email: joseph.kopta@temple.edu
Website: https://tyler.temple.edu/faculty/joseph-kopta-phd
Specialization: Byzantine art and architecture; manuscript studies; iconoclasm and image theory; materiality and material analysis of cultural heritage
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Charles Library Special Collections Research Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Penn Museum; Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania; strong regional consortium for cross-institutional library access and course enrollment.
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty: Vassiliki Limberis
Email: vasiliki.limberis@temple.edu
Tulane University
Department of History*
115F Hebert Building
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: 504-865-5588
Faculty: Kenneth W. Harl
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Survey of Byzantine History; Late Roman Empire and Byzantium and the Crusades (seminars)
*Note: The department is geared toward undergraduates.
Newcomb Department of Art
Newcomb Art Department
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: 504-865-5327
Faculty: Jelena Trkulja (2006-07)
Titles of Byzantine couses taught Fall 2006: ARHS 681 Pilgrimage: Topography of Sacred Art
Spring 2007: ARHS 320 Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Vanderbilt University
Department of Religion
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/gdr/
(615) 322-2776
karen.eardley@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty: David A. Michelson
Specialization: Late Antiquity and Syriac Studies
Email: david.a.michelson@vanderbilt.edu
Website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/michelson/
We offer an MA in Religion with a focus on Late Antiquity, not currenly offering Ph.D.
University of Virginia
Department of Art and Architectural History
434-924-6123
Director of Graduate Studies: fk8u@virginia.edu
Faculty: Fotini Kondyli
Specialization: Byzantine Archaeology and Material Culture
Email: fk8u@virginia.edu
Website: https://art.as.virginia.edu/kondyli
http://archaeology.virginia.edu/fotini-kondyli.html
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Digital Humanities at UVA: Scholars’ Lab https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/; The Fralin Museum of Art; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection ; Rare Book Special Collections
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 434-924-3741
Faculty: Robert Louis Wilken
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Eastern Christianity
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: very small icon collection in Bayly Museum
University of Wisconsin
Department of Art History
232 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-263-2340
Faculty: Thomas E. Dale
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003-04: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture;
Icon: The Holy Image in Eastern Orthodox Culture (graduate seminar focusing on icons in the Elvehjem Museum collection)
Other related faculty: Prof. Judith Kornblatt, Slavic Languages and Literature, 2002-03: Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy in the Global Context. Christopher Livanos, Comparative Literature.
Other University resources in the Byzantine field: Icon collection (mostly Russian), limited coin and manuscript collections, library has a strong working Byzantine collection built up over much of the 20th c. by A. A. Vasiliev and John Barker, especially strong in Slavic, East-Central and South-East European history and literature.
Department of History
3211 Mosse Humanities Building
455 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706-1483
(608) 263-1800
Faculty: Leonora Neville
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2010-2012: History of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Religion, Byzantine Empresses & their Men, Late Antiquity, Greek Historiography
Faculty: John Scarborough
Email: jscarborough@pharmacy.wisc.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught Spring 2008: Byzantine Medicine & Pharmacy (view Syllabus)
Washington University, St. Louis
Department of Art History and Archaeology
1189 – Kemper 210
One Brookings Drive
St Louis MO 63130
The Department of Art History and Archaeology accepts MA and PhD candidates and is able to fund students at both levels. Successful MA candidates are encouraged to apply to continue their studies at the PhD level. Washington University has dynamic and growing communities for Classical and Medieval Studies in numerous departments and an excellent collection of ancient and Byzantine coins available for research in the collection of the Kemper Art Museum. Additional local resources for Byzantine and medieval studies include the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Saint Louis Public Library, and the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University.
Yale University
Department of Classics
205 Phelps Hall
(203) 432-2554
Faculty: Noel Lenski
Specialization: late antique history, law, epigraphy, numismatics, social and political history
Email: noel.lenski@yale.edu
Faculty: Sara Insley
Specialization: late antique and Byzantine literature, hagiography, liturgical texts
Email: sarah.insley@yale.edu
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Yale University Art Gallery, Beinecke Rare Books Library
Department of History of Art
190 York Street
P.O. Box 208272
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-2667
Faculty: Robert S. Nelson
Email: robert.nelson@yale.edu
Graduate Courses taught 2005-2012: Byzantine Art and Ritual; Medieval Visualities; Icons of Mt. Sinai; Word and Image in Byzantine Art; Art and Ceremony in Constantinople; Light in the Middle Ages; Byzantine Manuscript Illumination.
Department of Religious Studies
320 York Road
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-0828
Administrator: Heather Roberts heather.roberts@yale.edu
Faculty: Stephen Davis
Email: stephen.davis@yale.edu
Teaches courses on Christianity in late antiquity, biblical interpretation, and pilgrimage and the cult of the saints. Conducts research on the life and literature of Greek, Coptic, and Arabic Christian communities, and directs the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project (YMAP).
Faculty: Maria Doerfler
Email: maria.doerfler@yale.edu
Teaches courses and conducts research on Christianity in late antiquity, on law and historiography, on death and grief, and on the Syriac language.
Faculty: Christine Hayes
Email: christine.hayes@yale.edu
Teaches courses and conducts research on late antique Judaism, including rabbinics and ancient Christianity.
Faculty: Laura Nasrallah
Email: laura.nasrallah@yale.edu
Teaches courses and conducts research on ancient Christianity within its Roman context, with a particular interest in material culture and theoretical frameworks drawn from feminist and postcolonial theories and Black Studies.
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: Yale University Art Gallery (esp. the Dura Europos collection), Beinecke Library
Institute of Sacred Music/Divinity School
Yale Divinity School/Yale Institute of Sacred Music
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: (203) 432-9753
http://www.yale.edu/ism
http://divinity.yale.edu/
Faculty: Örgü Dalgiç
Specialization: Late Antique art
Email: orgu.dalgic@yale.edu
Website: https://ism.yale.edu/people/orgu-dalgic
Faculty: Felicity Harley
Specialization: Early Christian and Medieval art
Email: felicity.harley@yale.edu
Website: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/felicity-harley-mcgowan F
aculty: Vasileios Marinis
Specialization: Byzantine art
Email: vasileios.marinis@yale.edu
Website: https://ism.yale.edu/people/vasileios-marinis
Faculty: Teresa Morgan
Specialization: ancient Christianity
Email: teresa.morgan@yale.edu
Website: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/teresa-morgan
Faculty: Laura Nasrallah
Specialization: Ancient Christianity
Email: laura.nasrallah@yale.edu
Website: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/laura-nasrallah
Faculty: Mark Roosien
Specialization: Liturgical studies
Email: mark.roosien@yale.edu
Website: https://ism.yale.edu/people/mark-roosien
Faculty: Andrew McGowan
Specialization: Early Christian studies
Email: andrew.mcgowan@yale.edu
Special collections, facilities, museums (etc.) on campus and/or nearby: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds some Byzantine manuscripts and has a substantial collection of facsimiles; the Yale Art Gallery has extensive holdings of artworks and objects of material culture from a variety of sites, including Dura-Europos and Gerasa, as well as a fine collection of Trecento panels.