PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, 2004-2005
Name		Degree/Dissertation Title		Research Project
Petre GURAN		Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2003 Royal Sanctity and Universal Power in the Orthodox Commonwealth		“Eschatology and Political Theology in the Last Centuries of Byzantium”
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows, 2004-2005
Suzanne ABRAMS REBILLARD		Ph.D., Classics, Brown University, 2003 Speaking for Salvation: Gregory of Nazianzus as Poet and Priest in his Autobiographical Poems		Revision of dissertation for publication
Maria EVANGELATOU		Ph.D., Byzantine Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, London University, 2003 The Illustration of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters: Layers of Meaning and their Sources		“The Sacra Parallela (cod. Paris. Gr. 923): Word and Image in an Exceptional Byzantine Manuscript”
Irma KARAULASHVILI		Ph.D., Medieval Studies, Central European University, 2004 The “Epistula Abgari”: Composition, Redactions, Dates		“The Vera Icon in the East and West: Similarities and Differences”
Anastasia STOURAITI		Ph.D., History and Archaeology, University of Athens, 2003 “Mars in the Mirror”. The Reception of the War of Morea (1684-1699) in Venice		Revision of dissertation for publication

Petre Guran's main research interests lie in the field of religious anthropology applied to Byzantine society and culture. More precisely, he is interested in the web of mutual influences that linked theological thought to the structures of society and political power in the Byzantine world. He has studied and taught in Romania (Lecturer in the Seminar of Political Anthropology, University of Bucharest); France (Lecturer and Managing Director for the academic program "First College of European Citizenship: Monasteries and European Identity," organised by the Council of Europe, and supervisor of the group of Romanian students; research mission at the Centre for Byzantine Studies of the Collège de France for the research team on Constantine Porphyrogenitus De ceremoniis); and Germany (Lecturer on early Byzantine Hagiography and the concept of sainthood, sanctus versus sacer, at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich). He defended his dissertation on Royal Sanctity and Universal Power in the Orthodox Commonwealth at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2003). During the period 1995-2004, he was research fellow at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest.

Suzanne Abrams Rebillard last year Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, France, received her Ph.D. in Classics from Brown University in 2003. Her dissertation is a study of Gregory of Nazianzus' self-representation as poet and priest in his 99 autobiographical poems, with translations of 96 poems. She also holds BAs in Classics from King's College, University of Cambridge (1993) and Columbia College in New York (magna cum laude, 1990). She was awarded fellowships by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and Brown, has conducted research at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.) and Princeton, and has studied papyrology at the University of Oxford and archaeology at the American Academy in Rome (AAR). She has presented papers at numerous Classical and Patristic conferences and has two publications forthcoming, in Studia Patristica and L'antiquiti tardive. She has been a Greek and Latin instructor at Brown University and an Assistant Editor for the ASCSA.

Maria Evangelatou holds a first degree in Archaeology (specialization in Byzantine Art) from the University of Ioannina, Greece (1993), and a Diploma in History of Art from the University of East Anglia (1995). She studied Museology and conservation of works of art at the Universitá Internazionale dell'Arte in Florence (1995-1997). She holds M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. s (2002) degrees in Byzantine Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, with a dissertation on the illustration of the ninth-century Byzantine marginal psalters. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as curatorial assistant in the Manuscript Department of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, and during the academic year 2003-2004 she held a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship. Her scholarly interests are Byzantine manuscript illumination (with particular attention to the relationship of word and image), and symbolic aspects of Byzantine iconography (with particular attention to the relationship between ecclesiastical texts and the visual arts). Maria Evangelatou has published on the ninth-century Byzantine marginal psalters and on Marian iconography.

Anastasia Stouraiti holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Athens. A Greek State Scholarship and the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens supported her graduate studies, as well as her archival and bibliographical research. She completed an M.A. in early modern Greek history at the University of Athens, where she earned the Ph.D. degree (2003) with a dissertation on Mars in the Mirror: The Reception of the War of Morea (1684-1699) in Venice. Anastasia Stouraiti did extensive research in Venice, where she worked for the Querini Stampalia Foundation and taught for the History Department of the Ca'Foscari University. She has published articles and exhibition catalogues on Venetian history. Her main interests are the history of the Venetian empire and its Greek territories; the history of print and manuscript culture; early modern journalism; and the politics of information and public history in the early modern period.

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