Graduate Programs

Graduate Programs in north America

Please complete this form to submit details about your institution’s graduate programs related to BSANA. We request one form per department, so please share with relevant colleagues at your institution.

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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.

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