LANTBYZ : Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Members

Michael I. Allen
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
frechulf@uchicago.edu
Early Medieval, cultures, literatures, and societies; Medieval historical writing; books, script, and learning in Medieval Europe; role of women in medieval education; Latin paleography

Jason Banks
Department of History
jabanks@uchicago.edu
Byzantine History (9th-13th Centuries), Diplomatic and cultural contacts between Byzantium and the East, Historical Geography

Charles Barber
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Art History and Design
Notre Dame University
Charles.E.Barber.11@nd.edu

Richard Beal
Senior Research Associate, Oriental Institute
r-beal@uchicago.edu

Elena Boeck
Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History
DePaul University
eboeck@depaul.edu

Katherine Strange Burke
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
k-strange@uchicago.edu
Islamic Archaeology

Paroma Chatterjee
Department of Art History
paroma@uchicago.edu

Fred Donner
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Oriental Institute
Associate Faculty, Department of History
f-donner@uchicago.edu
Origins of Islam; Tribal and Nomadic Society; Early Islamic History; Arabic-Islamic Historiography; Islamic Law

Leslie Dossey
Associate Professor, Department of History
Loyola University
ldossey@luc.edu
Social and cultural history of Late Antiquity; Material culture; Patristic sermons and exegesis

Asa Eger
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
asa2@uchicago.edu

Sheena Finnigan
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences
sfinnigan@uchicago.edu
Late Antique/Early Byzantine Christianity (esp. Councils at Ephesus and Chalcedon)

Heather Grossman
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
University of Illinois at Chicago
hgrossma@uic.edu
Byzantine Archaeology; Architecture and Arts of the Crusader Territories, esp. post-Fourth Crusade Greece; Monasticism; Cultural Interaction and Identity; Photography of Medieval Monuments; Historiography

Hripsime Haroutunian
Lecturer in Armenian Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
h-haroutunian@uchicago.edu
Armenian Linguistics and Literature, Armenian Art, Religion, Culture and Traditions, Indo-European Languages and Comparative Linguistics

Richard Hellie
Professor, Department of History
Associate Faculty, Slavic Languages and Literature
hell@uchicago.edu
Russian History; Muscovite Social, Economic, and Legal History; The Russian Novel

Kristine Hess
Department of Art History
kmh@uchicago.edu
Later Byzantine Art; Cult of Saints; Pilgrimage; Devotional Imagery East/West

Cecily Hillsdale
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
Northwestern University
cjhilsda@northwestern.edu

Wadad Kadi
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
w-kadi@uchicago.edu
Islamic Political Thought; Islamic Theology and Heresiography; Qur'an and Arabic Literature; Islamic Civilization in the 4th/10th Century; Biographical Literature; Arabic Manuscripts and Papyri

Walter E. Kaegi
Professor, Department of History; Oriental Institute
kwal@uchicago.edu
Byzantine and Late Roman Political, Social, Military and Religious Structure; Historiography; European Military History and Strategy; Byzantino-Islamic History

Hisa Kusabu
Department of History
kusabu@uchicago.edu

Daniel Larison
Department of History
larisond@uchicago.edu

Jaqueline Long
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Graduate Program Director, Women's Studies Program
Loyola University
jlong1@luc.edu
Late Antique History and Literature; Roman Literature

Catherine Mardikes
Bibliographer for Ancient Near East and Classics
University of Chicago Library
c-mardikes@uchicago.edu

Robert S. Nelson
Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Professor, Department of the History of Art
Yale University
olin@uchicago.edu
Byzantine Art

Ruma Niyogi-Salhi
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Saint Xavier University
niyogi@sxu.edu
Women and Gender in Byzantium, Greek historiography, Imperial Ideology

Leonidas Pittos
Department of History
leonidas@uchicago.edu

Barbara Rosenwein
Professor, Department of Art History
Loyola University
brosenw@luc.edu
History of Emotions; Religious, Social and Intellectual History of the Middle Ages; Interactions between the West, the Islamic World, and Byzantium in the Middle Ages

Josef Stern
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy
Committee on Jewish Studies
Associate Faculty in the Divinity School
j06s@midway.uchicago.edu

Galina Tirnanic
Department of Art History
gtirnani@uchicago.edu

Donald Whitcomb
Research Associate. Associate Professor of Islamic Archaeology, Oriental Institute
d-whitcomb@uchicago.edu