Graduate Programs in North America
The BSANA has taken over responsibility for maintaining and updating the Graduate Programs in North America website initiated at Dumbarton Oaks. It makes no claims to be an exhaustive list, and depends for accuracy on the cooperation of Byzantinist faculty members at North American universities. Please note that seminaries are not included in this listing.
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Brown University
Department of Religious Studies (updated July 2007)
Box 1927
Providence, RI 02912-1927
Tel: 401-863-3104
[Link]
Faculty member: Susan Ashbrook Harvey (on leave 2007-08)
Email address: susan_harvey@brown.edu
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2004-07: The Virgin Mary in Late Antiquity; Ecology and Theology in Ancient Christianity; Sacred Bodies; Asceticism in Late Antiquity; Ancient Christianity and the Sensing Body; the Christianization of the Syrian Orient.
Note: There is great strength in Late Antiquity. In addition to Religious Studies, there are important faculty in Classics, Egyptology, Art and Archaeology (with a new Institute of Archaeology, Prof. Susan Alcock, Director), and Judaic Studies.
Faculty member: Nancy Khalek
Email address: Nancy_Khalek@brown.edu
Department of Classics (updated July 2007)
Macfarlane House,
48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2123
[Link]
Faculty member: Stratis Papaioannou
Email address: Eustratios_Papaioannou@brown.edu
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2006-8: The World of Byzantium; Greek Palaeography and Premodern Book Cultures; Greek Erotic Literature: from Plato to the Medieval Romances; Greek Autobiography: From Plato to the Middle Ages; The Invention of Literature: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Early Byzantine Literature.
Bryn Mawr College
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Department of the History of Art
101 North Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Tel: 610-526-5074
[Link]
Faculty member: Dale Kinney
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 1997-2001: Medieval Rome, Roman origins of Christian Imagery, Spolia.
Department of Classics
101 N. Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Tel: 610-526-5198
[Link]
Faculty member: Catherine Conybeare
Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2002-03: Augustine and the Classical Tradition; Epistolography (late antique-early Byzantine)
Note: the Graduate group comprises three departments: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, History of Art, and Greek, Latin and Classical Studies. Admission is to, and degrees are conferred by, the separate departments. Students interested in Byzantine subjects can draw on the resources of all three departments. Faculty strength is principally in the areas of late antiquity and Byzantine Italy.
University of California, Berkeley
Department of History (updated July 2006)
3229 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Tel: 510-642-1971
[Link]
Faculty member: Maria Mavroudi (on leave)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Paleography and Auxiliary Sciences.
Courses taught 2002-2007: General survey of Byzantine history 330-1453; Paleography and auxiliary sciences; Dream Interpretation Before Freud; After the Roman Empire: the East; Introduction to Byzantine Studies; the Afterlife of Antiquity in the Greek and Arabic Middle Ages; Introduction to Post-Classical Greek from the Late Antique to the Byzantine Era.
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of History (updated July 2007)
Box 951473
6265 Bunche Hall,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Tel: 310-825-4601
[Link]
Faculty member: Claudia Rapp
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2007: Early Byzantine History, Age of Justinian; Homilies of John Chrysostom; Greek Paleography and Byzantine Textual Scholarship; Age of Constantine; Alternative Approaches to Early Monasticism; Hagiography and the Cult of Saints; Byzantine Iconoclasm; Byzantium and its Neighbors;
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Professor Sharon Gerstel, Department of Art History, offers courses in Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine art. The Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department offers courses in Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, and Arabic. The university hosts an annual Byzantinists' Symposium; a graduate student conference on Late Antiquity; and a twice-yearly reading group in Late Antiquity.
Note: The Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA hosts a rich program of lectures and conferences of interest to Byzantinists. Prof. Rapp is the principal investigator of the Late Antique History and Culture Multicampus Research Group which offers opportunities for graduate study. Emily Albu, UC-Davis and Susanna Elm, UC-Berkeley, are also affiliated with this research group.
Department of Art History (updated August 2007)
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
Tel: 310-206-6905
[Link]
Faculty member: Sharon Gerstel
Graduate seminars: El Greco: Master of Hybridity; Mount Sinai; Middle Byzantine Art and Archaeology; Late Byzantine Painting; Early Christain Art and Archaeology.
Catholic University of America
Department of Greek and Latin (updated July 2006)
308 McMahon Hall
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5216
[Link]
Note: Students come from the History and Church History Departments, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, and Early Christian Studies Program, which all have degree programs in Byzantine fields.
Faculty member: William E. Klingshirn (will be on leave 2006-7)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2004-2007: The Mediterranean World of Late Antiquity (to the 8th century).
Faculty member: William J. McCarthy
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2004-2007: Gregory of Nazianzus (Directed Reading)
Department of History (updated July 2007)
Cardinal Hall
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5484
[Link]
Faculty member: Leonora Neville
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003-2008: Introduction to Byzantine Studies; Byzantine Ethics; Byzantine History Writers; Religion in the Medieval Byzantine Empire; Eastern Perspectives on the Crusades.
Graduate Studies in Early Christianity (updated July 2007)
The Center for the Study of Early Christianity
300 McMahon Hall
Catholic University of America
P.O. Box 337
Washington DC 20064
Tel: 202-319-5795
[Link]
Director: Philip Rousseau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies
Tel: 202-319-6217
rousseau@cua.edu
Much of the Center's work, at both faculty and student levels, impinges inevitably on the Byzantine field. Dr Susan Wessel of the School of Theology and Religious Studies, biographer of Cyril of Alexandria, exemplifies our potential for overlap. CUA is also noted for its scholarship in the Syriac and Coptic spheres, presided over by Professor Sidney Griffith and Dr Janet Timbie. We have a wealth of material in the library of our Institute for Christian Oriental Research, which includes manuscripts, papyri, and ostraka, together with substantial electronic resources. Thanks to the work of the Librarian, Dr Monica Blanchard, and of our visiting Research Fellow, Dr Chrysi Kotsifou, important improvements have been made recently in the conservation, cataloguing, and publication of this material. Our Department of Greek and Latin also has a close interest in the early Christian field, and much of its philological work is directed towards the study of Patristic documents, both Greek and Latin. Finally, our close working relationship with Dumbarton Oaks and other universities in the DC area, and the proximity of the Library of Congress, make CUA an ideal place to pursue research.
Full accounts of faculty research and teaching, together with our other activities, are available on or linked to the Center website: http://csec.cua.edu.
We shall resume admitting students to our Early Christian Studies Program in the Fall of 2008. A revised curriculum is currently being drafted, and all the necessary information, including funding packages for graduates, should be available on the website by Christmas 2007.
University of Chicago
Department of History (updated August 2007)
1126 E. 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-702-8397
and Program in Ancient Mediterranean World
(updated August 2007)1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-702-8514
[Link]
Faculty member: Walter E. Kaegi
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2007-2008: (Autumn 07) History
22001/32001 Byzantium and Islam; History 27101/31701 Byzantine Empire 330-610. (Spring 08) History 21702/31702 Byzantine Empire 610-1025; History 16900/Classical Civilization 20900 = Ancient Mediterranean World, III: Late Antiquity.
Also History 998001 Graduate Seminar in Byzantine History
2006-07 (autumn 06) History 21703/31703 Byzantine Empire 1025-1453; History 25701/35701 North Africa Late Antiquity to Islam. (Spring 2007) History 16900/Classical Civilization 20900 Ancient Mediterranean, III: Late Antiquity; History
22002/32002 Byzantine Military History.
Information may also be available from Verity Platt, Art History, concerning Late Antique Art History courses; Clifford Ando concerning Late Antique courses in Classics; David Martinez concerning his courses on papyrology, which include Byzantine materials, as well as courses of Margaret Mitchell, Divinity School, on Greek Patristics.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: small collection of Greek manuscripts, especially New Testaments; coins and archaeological objects in Oriental Institute Museum. Coptic is taught in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Byzantine Jewish History and Texts (Genizah) are also taught by Prof. Norman Golb of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Strong programs in Early Ottoman History and in Early Islamic Studies and in Late Antique Archaeology of the Near East, latter esp. with Dr. Donald Whitcomb. Byzantine Papyrology available through Prof. David Martinez, Classics Dept. Cooperation with strong program in Early Russian History and Literature. Note: There is a regular workshop for advanced graduate students on Late Antiquity and Byzantium and long-range plans to add a scholar for Byzantine Greek language and literature.
University of Chicago Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium contains timely information on Byzantine activites and news.
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
(updated July 2007) 826 Schermerhorn Hall
MC 5517
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Telephone: 212-854-4505
[Link]
Faculty member: Holger Klein [currently on leave]
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2001: Early Christian and Byzantine art
Nikolas Bakirtzis and Holger Klein
Fall graduate seminar: Constantinople and Thessaloniki
Nikolas Bakirtzis
Spring Seminar: Art and Architecture of Byzantine Monastic Life
Department of Classics (updated July 2006)
MC 2861
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-3902
[Link]
Faculty member: Alan Cameron
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Pagans and Christians in 4th and 5th century Rome (graduate seminar)
Faculty member: Raffaella Cribiore
Title of courses taught 2004-5: Papyrology
Duke University
Department of Religion (updated July 2007)
118 Gray Building, Box 90964
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919-660-3510
[Link]
Faculty members: Elizabeth Clark, Lucas Van Rompay
Department of Art and Art History
112 East Duke Building
Campus Drive
Durham NC 27708
Tel: 919-684-2224
[Link]
Faculty member: Annabel Wharton
George Washington University
Department of Art
Smith Hall of Art, Room A101
801 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-6085
[Link]
Faculty member: Jeffrey C. Anderson
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Icons-Manuscripts Connoisseurship; Medieval Byzantine Small Objects
Department of History of Art and Architecture (updated August 2007)
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2377
[Link]
Faculty member: Ioli Kalavrezou Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Byzantine Art.
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2007: Topography of Constantinople; Art of the Court of Constantinople; Study of Byzantine Manuscript Illustration; Byzantine Women; Local Cults and the Development of Pilgrimage Sites; Use of Materials in Byzantine Culture(seminar series);Art, Faith and Power: Introduction to Early Christian and Byzantine Art.(Lower division); Icon and Relic in Byzantine Constantinople; The place of protective and apotropaic objects and magic in Byzantium, 4th-15th c.; Topics in Early Christian Art; The Cult of Images.
Department of History (updated July 2007)
Robinson Hall
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617- 495-2556
[Link]
Faculty member: Angeliki Laiou
Titles of Byzantine courses: History 1213. The Imperial System: Byzantine Society and Civilization, 8th Century-1204 (2004-05); History 2271r. Topics in Byzantine History (Graduate Seminar) (2004-05); History 1158. The Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages, 1204-1500 (2004-05); History 1166. Family, Sex, Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (2006-07); History 2120. Problems in Byzantine History (Graduate Seminar) (2006-07)
Faculty member: Michael McCormick
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Medieval Studies 101. The Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval History (2004-05) (2006-07);History 2122. Early Medieval History: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean(Graduate Seminar) (2004-05); History 1101. Medieval Europe (2005-06); History 1111. The Fall of the Roman Empire (2006-07)
Department of Classics
204 Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4027
[Link]
Faculty member: John Duffy
New courses in 2006-2007: Freshman Seminar, "Meeting the Byzantines"; Byzantine Hagiography of the Seventh Century.
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2002: Introduction to Byzantine Greek; Greek Paleography; Byzantine Saints' Lives (seminar); Introduction to Medieval Greek Culture; Byzantine Chronographic Tradition (seminar); Readings in the Cappadocian Fathers 2002-03: Byzantine Religious Tales; Editing Greek Christian Literature (seminar); The Literature of Iconoclasm (seminar).
Faculty member: Panagiotis Roilos
Titles of related seminars 2006-8: Dreams and Literature
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2002-03: The Byzantine Novel
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97,1997-98: Readings in Byzantine Greek; Prodromic Poems (seminar)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: 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 Chicago
Department of Art History
935 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-3303
[Link]
Faculty member: Heather E. Grossman
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2007-2008: 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
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Art History (MA, PhD)
935 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312-996-3303
[Link]
Faculty member: 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 (updated July 2007)
4080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801-3676
Tel: 217-333-1008
[Link]
Faculty Member: Danuta Shanzer, Classics (updated July 2006)
Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (217) 333-1155
[Link]
Faculty member: Ralph Mathisen
Titles of Byzantine related courses taught: One class in Byzantine history offered every other year.
*Ph.D. program with a concentration in Late Antiquity
Indiana University
Department of History of Art
Fine Arts Building 132
Bloomington, IN 47405-3501
[Link]
Faculty member: W. Eugene Kleinbauer - Retired 2006
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Art Museum, Lilly Library of rare manuscripts.
Affiliated faculty: Thomas Mathiesen, Medieval and Byzantine musicology; David Brakke, early Christian religious studies; Edward Watts, history of late antiquity
Department of Religious Studies
Sycamore Hall 230
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
[Link]
Faculty member: David Brakke
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 History
Ballantine Hall 742
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
[Link]
Faculty member: Edward J. Watts
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Culture and Communication in the Medieval Mediterranean: Jews Christians, and Muslims; Late Antique Paganism; From Biography to Hagiography; Worlds of Late Antiquity; Beyond Rome: The Late Antique Near East
Faculty member: Deborah M. Deliyannis
Titles of Byzantine courses taught: Byzantine History; Medieval Historiography.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field:
Affiliated faculty: W. Eugene Kleinbauer (Art History, emeritus); Thomas J. Mathiesen (Musicology); Jamsheed Chosky (Central Eurasian Studies).
Johns Hopkins University
Department of History of Art (updated July 2007)
268 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685
Tel: 410-516-7117
[Link]
Faculty member: Henry Maguire
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
[Link]
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 member: Christine Havice
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Byzantine Art; Studies in Genre: Late Antique Portraiture; Illuminated Manuscripts
Faculty member: 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 member: 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
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Tel: 773-508-3650
[Link]
Faculty member: Jacqueline Long
Titles of Byzantine courses taught spring 2001: Latin, Ammianus Marcellinus; spring 2002: Latin, Augustine, Confessions; fall 2002: Latin, The Historia Augusta.
Byzantine related faculty: Greg Dobrov, among more classical interests, also Byzantine hymnography. James G. Keenan, Greek, Papyrology (covering other periods also).
Department of History
6525 Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Tel: 773-508-2221
[Link]
Faculty member: Leslie Dossey at this time only teaching undergrad. courses
University of Maryland
Department of History (updated August 2007)
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315
Tel: 301-405-4265
[Link]
Faculty member: Kenneth G. Holum
The Department of History is not currently offering graduate courses in Byzantine Studies Graduate courses continue to include a reading course in Late Antiquity and a reading course on the Roman Near East from Augustus to the Muslim Conquest.
University of Michigan
Department of History (updated August 2007)
555 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Phone (734) 764-6305
Fax (734) 647-4881
[Link]
Faculty member: Rudi Paul Lindner
Teaches Byzantine and Ottoman history and a graduate seminar on Byzantine and Turkic Historiography.
Faculty member: Raymond Van Dam
Teaches courses and seminars on late antiquity and early Byzantine History
History Faculty member: John V. A. Fine
Teaches courses and seminars on Byzantine history, Balkan history, and the history of the formation of Christian institutions in the eastern and western Mediterranean.
Department of Classics (updated August 2006)
2160 Angell Hall
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel:734-763-4959
[Link]
Faculty member: Donald Cameron
Teaches small graduate courses in Byzantine Greek in alternate years.
Faculty member: David Potter
Gives annual seminars on the history of late antiquity
Faculty Member: 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 Classical and Near Eastern Studies (updated August 2007)
245 Nicholson Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
[Link]
Faculty member: 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. Library is good despite lack of core Byzantine scholar.
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 member: Philip Sellew
Teaches Coptic and Greek patristics.
Center for Medieval Studies under the direction of Professor Susan Noakes takes a very broad view of Mediaeval Studies: www.cmedst.umn.edu
Department of Art History (updated August 2007)
417 Heller Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-6384
[Link]
Faculty member: Sheila McNally
Teaches courses on Roman art and archeology with special focus on late antiquity
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Art History and Archaeology (updated August 2006)
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65311
Tel: 573-882-6711
[Link]
Faculty member: 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 (updated August 2006)
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
Tel: 314-516-5980
[Link]
Faculty member: 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
[Link]
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Thelma Thomas (as of 2007-08)
Department of History (updated August 2007)
53 Washington Square South, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212- 998-8600
[Link]
Faculty member: 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
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Papamarkou Endowment specifically for Byzantine acquisitions at the Bobst Library
University of North Carolina (updated July 2006)
Department of Art (updated July 2006)
111 Hayes Art Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
Tel: 919-962-2015
Link
Faculty member: Jaroslav Folda
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 member: 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
[Link]
Faculty member: Carolyn L. Connor
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
[Link]
Faculty Member: Cecily Hilsdale
Email Address: cjhilsda@northwestern.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught in 2007-8:
Graduate Seminars: Istanbul Imagined (co-taught on site in Istanbul), The Medieval Gift: Anthropological Theory and Art Historical Practice, Medieval Encounters with Islam.
Undergraduate Courses: Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture, Medieval Art and Architecture.
Notre Dame University
Department of Art, Art History and Design (updated August 2007)
306 Riley Hall of Art & Design
Notre Dame, Indiana
Tel: 574- 631- 7452
[Link]
Faculty member: Charles Barber
The courses taught covers the years from 1996-97 until 2007-08:
Seminars: include: Iconoclasm; The Icon; the Byzantine Psalter; The Byzantine Book; Out of the Purple Chamber; Vision and Ecstasy
Lecture Courses: include: Early Christian and Byzantine Art; The Formation of Christian Art; Byzantine Art; Empire, Nation, Colony: Late- and Post-Byzantine Art
A regular Bi-annual Workshop in Byzantine Intellectual History run at Notre Dame. Please check the website for details.
Further information about the Ph.D program is available at The Medieval Institute at Notre Dame.
Department of Theology
130 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel. 574-631-7811
[Link]
Faculty member: Brian Daley
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Early Christianity; The Christological Controversies of the Early Church
Faculty member: Robin Darling Young
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2003: Monastic Way in the History of Christ
Ohio State University
Department of History
106 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: 614-292-2674
[Link]
Faculty member: Timothy E. Gregory
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Classics 294 (Greece after the Golden Age); History 607.01 (Early Byzantine Empire); History 607.02 (Later Byzantine Empire); History 808 (seminar in Byzantine History); Medieval and Renaissance Studies 694 (Religion and Material Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages).1998-2000: History 607.01 (Early Byzantine Empire), History 607.02 (Later Byzantine Empire), History 808 (seminar on City and Country in Byzantium)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Chilandar Research Center and Manuscript Library; Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia; Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
Faculty member: Kristina M. Sessa
Titles of Byzantine Courses taught 2007-8: Gender and the Household in the Late Roman and Early Christian Empire (graduate seminar)
Department of Greek and Latin (will be updated in the Fall of 2007)
414 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1319
Tel: 614-292-2744
[Link]
Faculty member: Anthony Kaldellis
Titles of Byzantine courses taught (2001-2007). Travels of the Byzantine Ambassadors (upper-level Greek); Introduction to Medieval Constantinople (UG survey); Classicizing Historians of Late Antiquity (graduate seminar); Hellenism in Byzantium (graduate seminar); Topics in Byzantine Literature (graduate seminar).
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History of Art (Updated July 2006)
Meyerson Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
[Link]
Faculty member: Robert Ousterhout (beginning January 2007)
Robert Ousterhout teaches art and architectural history courses, including Introduction to Byzantine Art and Architecture; Constantinople and Medieval Urbanism; Historic Building Technologies; Arts of Cappadocia; Iconography of Medieval Jerusalem.
Note: Penn has exchange agreements with Princeton, Bryn Mawr, and Delaware, and Penn students can take courses at these universities. Penn also has a program for Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World (note website), which includes Byzantine and Islamic.
Additional faculty: Elizabeth Bolman (Coptic and Egyptian art, Temple University) is adjunct faculty. Robert Maxwell (Medieval Art, History of Art Department, Penn) taught Intro to Byzantine Art in 2004-05. C.L. Striker (History of Art Department, Penn) is retired.
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 (updated August 2007)
229 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-865-6326
[Link]
Faculty member: Anthony Cutler
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Survey of Byzantine Art; Methods of Research in Byzantine Art (seminar)
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: icons in Palmer Museum; manuscript facsimiles in Rare Books Collection
Princeton University
Department of History
129 Dickinson Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
Tel: 609-258-4159
[Link]
Faculty members:
Peter Brown
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2001-2002: Byzantium and the West (seminar)
John Haldon
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2006-7: Transformation of the Ancient World: Byzantine History 500-1200; Problems in Byzantine History; Sources and Problems (graduate); Introduction to the Professional Study of History (graduate)
Department of Art and Archaeology
105 McCormick Hall
Princeton, NY 08544
Tel: 609-258-3782
[Link]
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Slobodan Ćurčić
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97,1997-98: Medieval Art (seminar); Art and Architecture of Late Antiquity; 2000-01: Late Antique Villa, Palace, Fortress in the Eastern Mediterranean (with T. Leisten) 2001-02: Constantinople - Istanbul (with T. Leisten), The Dome in Byzantine Architecture (with O. Grabar) 2002-03: "Regional Schools" in Palaiologan Architecture.
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: manuscripts; coins; excellent library; Princeton University Art Museum; Index of Christian Art
The Program in Hellenic Studies is administered by an interdepartmental committee under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities. The Program supports faculty positions and offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum, as well as graduate opportunities in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
Rutgers University
Department of Art History
Vorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
Tel: 732-932-7041
[Link]
Faculty member: Archer St. Clair Harvey
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-97, 1997-98: Art of Late Antiquity; Problems in Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Department of History (with Classics and Religion) (updated August 2007)
Van Dyck Hall
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-7905
[Link]
Websites with contact information: http://history.rutgers.edu, and http://classics.rutgers.edu, http://religion.rutgers.edu
Note: A doctoral program in Late Antique & Byzantine History can be tailored, under the guidance of up to three faculty variously in History, Religion, and Classics (see below), with primary admission through the History graduate program. An interdisciplinary doctoral program in Byzantine History, and Art History, can also be negotiated, with primary admission either in the History or Art History graduate programs.
For the Art History component see above.
Strengths for a doctoral program in History include Late Antique gender, religion, & political ideology; middle Byzantine ecclesiastical history, & conflict between orthodoxy and Catholicism; and Palaiologan Byzantium and the Turkic world.
Faculty members:
Tia Kolbaba (Religion)
Sarolta Takacs (Classics)
Stephen Reinert (History)
Titles of Graduate Level Byzantine Courses Offered: varies (under colloquium and seminar rubrics) according to interest of faculty and students.
Saint Louis University
Department of History (updated August 2007)
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
Tel: 314-977-2910
[Link]
Faculty member: Warren Treadgold
M.A. program in Late Ancient and Byzantine History; Ph.D. program in Medieval History (including Byzantine History)
Byzantine courses taught 2001-02: The Byzantine Historians (seminar), Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate);
2002-03: Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar); 2003-4 (on leave); 2004-05: Introduction to Byzantine History (seminar), Late Antiquity (seminar), Byzantine History (undergraduate and graduate); 2005-06: Byzantine-Western Relations (seminar), Byzantine History (graduate and undergraduate);
2006-07: Introduction to Byzantine History (seminar), Byzantine History (seminar)
Department of Theological Studies
Humanities Building #124
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108-3414
Phone: 314-977-2881
[Link]
Faculty member: Cornelia Horn
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.
Southern Methodist University
Department of Art History (updated July 2007)
Meadows School of the Arts
P.O. Box 750356
Dallas, TX 75275-0356
Tel: 214-962-4359
[Link]
Faculty member: Annemarie Weyl Carr (retiring 2008)
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 1996-2001: Byzantine Art; Pilgrimage (general course on the Middle Ages); Early Christian Art; Medieval Art (Introduction to the Art of Byzantium, Islam, and the West); Art and the Italian Commune; Origins of El Greco; TheIcon in Late Byzantium; Art of the Crusades
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: Bridwell Library in Perkins School of Theology has some papyrus fragments, some facsimiles of illuminated books, and a fine research collection.
Perkins School of Theology (updated July 2007)
Kirby Hall
5915 Bishop Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75275-0133
[Link]
Faculty member: Valerie Karras, assistant professor of church history
Web page: www.smu.edu/theology/people/karras.html
Department of Religious Studies
Campus Box 750202
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0202
(214) 768-2095 (office)
(214) 768-3910 (fax)
http://www.smu.edu/dedman/relimenu.html
Faculty member: Dr. John C. Lamoreaux
214-768-1529
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
[Link]
Faculty member: 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
6036 Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 Canada
Tel: 416-978-7892
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/
Faculty member: Linda Safran
Web pages
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/people/art-history/graduate-faculty/safran\
Interactive map of Constantinople
Courses taught: Exceptional Cities: Constantinople; Late Byzantine Church Decoration; Art and Architecture of Late Antiquity
Department of Classics
125 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7
www.chass.utoronto.ca/classics/
Faculty member: Alexander Jones
www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones
Courses taught: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Science
Centre for Medieval Studies
125 Queen’s Park, 3rd floor\
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Tel: 416-978-4884
www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/
Faculty member: Robert E. Sinkewicz
Courses taught: Studies in Eastern Christianity; Early Christian Monasticism; Judeo-Christian Koine Greek; The Apocryphal Bible; Introduction to Medieval Christianity
University of St. Michael’s College, Faculty of Theology
Faculty member: Pablo Argárate
Courses taught: Theology of Cyril of Alexandria and the Church of Alexandria; Bible in Early Christianity; Mystagogical Catecheses; Creeds in Early Christianity
Faculty member: T. Allan Smith
Courses taught: Origen; History of Christianity 843–1648
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
59 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Toronto, ON M5S 2C4
Tel: 416-926-7142
www.pims.ca
Martin Dimnik , Political and Church history of the Slavs in the Balkans, sixth to fourteenth century; numismatic history of the medieval Balkan Slavs
Resources on campus include: the Malcove Collection of Late Antique and Byzantine art and post-Byzantine icons in the University of Toronto Art Centre (http://www.utoronto.ca/artcentre/permanent_collection/index.html), and extensive Late Antique and Byzantine holdings at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Fisher Rare Book and Manuscript library contains facsimiles and papyri, while the Stathas Collection at PIMS supplements the Greek Index Project, a computerized information access system for some 40,000 Greek manuscripts.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Art History
Ritter Annex #857
1301 C.B. Moore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-7837
[Link]
Faculty member: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Email address: ebolman@temple.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught 2007-2008: Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture (undergraduate lecture); Visual Manifestation of the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Byzantium (graduate); Late Antique and Byzantine Aesthetics (graduate).
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty member: Vassiliki Limberis
Email address: vasiliki.limberis@temple.edu
Tulane University
Department of History*
115F Hebert Building
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: 504-865-5588
[Link]
Faculty member: 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
[Link]
Faculty member: 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
University of Virginia
Department of Religious Studies (updated August 2007)
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 434-924-3741
[Link]
Faculty member: 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 Washington
Art Division
Seattle, WA 98195
[Link]
Faculty member: Anna Kartsonis
Note: No information has been received.
University of Wisconsin
Department of Art History
232 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-263-2340
[Link]
Faculty member: 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.
Faculty member: John Scarborough
Email address: jscarborough@pharmacy.wisc.edu
Titles of Byzantine courses taught Spring 2008: Byzantine Medicine & Pharmacy (view Syllabus)
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Art History and Archaeology
1189 – Kemper 210
One Brookings Drive
St Louis MO 63130
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/
Faculty Member: Alicia Walker (Assistant Professor since fall 2006)
Titles of Byzantine related courses (Professor Walker teaches courses in western, Islamic, and Byzantine medieval art and architecture as well as courses that employ a cross-cultural approach to objects and monuments of the Middle Ages):
Lectures: Byzantine Icons in Byzantine Life (taught spring 2007); Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture (taught fall 2007)
Seminars: Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority in the Era of the Crusades (taught spring 2007); Medieval Renaissance: Art and Antiquity in the Middle Ages (taught spring 2008).
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 History of Art (updated July 2006)
190 York Street
P.O. Box 208272
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-2667
[Link]
No Byzantine-related M.A. program
Faculty member: Robert S. Nelson
Graduate Courses taught 2005-2009: Byzantine Art and Ritual; Medieval Visuality; Icons; Word and Image in Byzantine Art; Art and Ceremony in Constantinople .
Department of History (updated August 2007)
P.O. Box 208324
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203-432-1366
[Link]
Faculty member: Youval Rotman
Other university resources in the Byzantine field: some Byzantine manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book Library
Department of Religious Studies (updated August 2007)
451 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: 203-432-0828
[Link]
Faculty member: Stephen Davis (on leave 2006-7)
Teaches courses on Christianity in late antiquity, with a special focus on Coptic Egypt
Bentley Layton
Teaches courses on late antique Christianity and Coptic language
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