PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

BOYCHEVA, Yuliana Research Assistant, Ancient and Medieval Art, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences		The Perception of Liturgical Objects in Byzantine Religious Art: Liturgical Veils, Depicted Realia, Verbal Images		September – November
CLARKE, Graeme Visiting Fellow and Emeritus Professor, History, Australian National University		Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates: Volume 5 The Public Buildings and History of the Site		September - November
HAHN, Johannes Professor, Ancient History, University of Münster		Destructions of Temples in Late Antiquity		September – November
ISABELLA, Maurizio Research Fellow, History, Birkbeck College, London		Italian Exiles, the Greek War of Independence and European Philhellenism		September - November
PAPADIMITRIOU, Dimitris Lecturer, Politics, University of Manchester		The Limits of Europeanisation: Greek Public Policy in the Shadow of Economic and Monetary Union		December - February
PAPANIKOLAOU, Dimitris Lecturer, Modern Greek, University of Oxford		Cavafy and Sexuality		December - February
PARADELLIS, Theodoros Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology and History, University of Aegean		Hunting Nature: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Hunting Practices in Contemporary Lesvos		December - February
STROUMSA, Guy Professor, Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem		Chiliastic Expectations in Seventh-Century Byzantium and the Rise of Islam		December – February
KOURELIS, Kostis Assistant Professor, Art History, Clemson University		Discovering Byzantium: American Archaeology in Greece 1920-1940		March – May
LEVIDIS, Alexandros Independent Scholar; Artist, Greece		Pseudo-Aristotle’s "De Coloribus". Translation into Modern Greek and Extensive Commentary		March – May
MARTÍN CORTÉS, Irene Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University Autónoma of Madrid		Origins and Meanings of Interest in Politics in Two New Democracies: Greece and Spain		March – May
SERAIDARI, Katerina Independent Scholar, Paris		The Construction of Identity through Religion: Greek Catholics of Syros and Tinos		March – May

Yuliana Boycheva received her undergraduate degree and an M.A. in the History of Art from Lomonosov Moscow University (1992). Since 1997 she has been working as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2003 she completed her Ph.D. dissertation on "Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Liturgical Veils (aeres and epitaphioi) in Bulgarian Churches and Museums." In 2003-2004 she continued her research at the University of Athens with the support of the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.), and in 2005 she was awarded a research scholarship from the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. Her research interests focus on the relationship between objects, texts, and images in Medieval Christian Art. She is currently preparing a book on Byzantine and post-Byzantine liturgical textiles, while at the same time she is working on a wider project concerning the perception of liturgical veils in Byzantine and post-Byzantine iconography.

Graeme Clarke is currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, having been previously a Director of the Humanities Research Centre in the Australian National University (1982-1999) and Professor of Classical Studies, University of Melbourne (1969-1982). He publishes in Patristic Studies – his books include The Letters of St Cyprian of Carthage (4 volumes) and The Octavius of Marcus Minucius Felix, and he is preparing a new text and commentary on the De lapsis of Cyprian (for Sources chrétiennes) as well as a translation and commentary on the works of Dionysius of Alexandria. He has also been Director of Excavations for the last twenty years at the Hellenistic site of Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates in North Syria. Three volumes of Report have so far been completed and he is currently preparing material for the fifth volume. Graeme Clarke has been Honorary Secretary of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2000.

Johannes Hahn is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Seminar für Alte Geschichte and of the Institut für Epigraphik at the University of Münster. After studying Philosophy, History, and Archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Oxford, and Berlin, he received a first degree in Philosophy (M.A., 1982, Freie Universität Berlin). From 1982 to 1992, he was Fellow at the Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Heidelberg University, where he received his Ph.D. and his Habilitation in Ancient History in 1986 and 1993 respectively. In 1993, he was made a Research Fellow of the Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, and in 1993-95 became the Deputy Chair in Greek History at the University of Cologne. During 1995-1996 he was Heisenberg-Scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Freiburg University. His research interests cover both Greek and Roman history, with the main focus being on the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Particular interests are social and cultural history, and recent research has been concerned with the history of religion (especially Judaism and Christianity) in the Roman Empire. Publications include a book on the political philosophy of John Locke (1984), a monograph on philosophers in Roman society (1989), a book on Alexander in India (2000) and a major study of religious conflict between Christians, Jews, and pagans in Late Antiquity (2004).

Maurizio Isabella is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary College, London. He was educated at the University of Milan, where he studied Italian literature and Modern History. He then went on to earn a Master's degree in European Studies at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in 1998. After a internship at the European Commission, he worked for five years in Brussels, first as Assistant to the Secretary General of UNICE, the representation of European Industry to the European Institutions, and then as consultant and political analyst advising companies and trade associations on European policies. In 2004 Maurizio Isabella was a visiting scholar at CRASSH, the Centre for the Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University. He has been Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London, where he has taught Modern European History.

Kostis Kourelis is Assistant Professor in Art History at Clemson University, specializing in architectural history and the archaeology of the medieval Mediterranean. Currently, Kourelis is directing a field school on Crusader architecture in the Peloponnesos (Clemson); he is publishing the excavations of an Arab-Norman village in western Sicily (Stanford); and he is studying the urban remains of Byzantine Chersonesos, Ukraine (University of Texas, Austin). Rural settlements and landscapes, daily life, peasant histories and non-elite material culture are major areas of research, along with archaeological theory and method. Kourelis has published on medieval villages, the historiography of architectural studies, popular culture and Greek-American immigration. His research as field director of the Morea Project appeared in Houses of the Morea: Vernacular Architecture of the Northwest Peloponnesos (1205-1955). His book-in-progress builds on many years of archaeological involvement with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and focuses on the largely unknown dialogue between Greek and American modernism during the 1920 and 1930s and the rich history of the institution.

Alexandros Vl. Levidis is a practicing artist and writer based in Athens.  He studied Stage Direction and Set Design in Paris (1965), as well as Architecture in Geneva (E.A.U.G. 1969).  He has held eighteen individual shows and participated in twenty five group exhibitions in Greece and Europe. He has published eight books-exhibition catalogues and he has also worked as set designer for the theatre.  He has published a translation of Pliny the Elder’s 35th Book of Natural History into modern Greek, accompanied by an extensive commentary based on a combination of theoretical knowledge and experience in painting techniques.  The book received an Academy of Greece Award (1995).  His research interests focus on ancient Greek painting, and he is currently involved in the study of color perception in ancient Greece, based on the texts of the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and on archaeological evidence.  He is working on the translation and commentary of Pseudo Aristotle’s De Coloribus, while also completing a study on the representation of the suicide of Ajax by Exekias.

Irene Martín-Cortés is Lecturer in Political Science at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM). A recipient of fellowships from the Juan March Institute, as well as from the Onassis Foundation, she wrote her doctoral dissertation on “The meanings and origins of interest in politics in two new democracies: Spain and Greece” (AUM, 2004). Her publications in English include: “Interest in Politics and the Political Culture Approach: The Case of the New Democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe”, in Pollack, D. et al. (eds.), Political Culture in Post-Communist Europe - Attitudes in New Democracies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) and (with Jan van Deth) “Political Involvement” in Westholm, A., van Deth, J. y Montero, J.R. (eds.), Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy. Volume B: Population Studies (London: Routledge, 2006).

Dimitris Papadimitriou is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has written on contemporary Greek politics and the European Union's relations with Eastern Europe (Negotiating the New Europe, Ashgate 2002). He has previously published on the EMU (European Monetary Unification) and welfare state reform and on the Greek strategy during the negotiations of the Maastricht Treaty in 1990-91. More recently he has been working on the theme of Europeanization and its effects on the process of domestic structural reform: privatization, labour market reform and pensions.
Co-authored with Kevin Featherstone, his forthcoming book on EU membership and Greek public policy (Palgrave 2007) is the first extended study of the country's public policy process and is based on a wide range of interviews and extensive fieldwork in Athens and Brussels. He co-directs with Kevin Featherstone (LSE) a new research project on the Muslim/Turkish minority of Thrace during the Axis occupation and the Greek civil war.

Dimitris Papanikolaou studied Classics and Modern Greek at the University of Athens (B.A.) and Comparative Literature at University College London (M.A. and Ph.D.). He was a Mellon post-doctoral fellow at University College London between 2002 and 2004. In 2004 he succeeded Professor Peter Mackridge as University Lecturer in Modern Greek at the University of Oxford . His research focuses on the ways Modern Greek literature opens a dialogue with other cultural forms (especially Greek popular culture), as well as other literatures and cultures. He is also interested in literary and cultural theory and the new perspectives it offers for the study of literature. He has recently completed a monograph Singing Poets: Popular Music and Poetry in France and Greece, 1945-1975, Oxford: Legenda (2007). Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on Cavafy from the perspective of queer theory, postmodernism in Greece, literature under the Greek dictatorship (1967-1974), and the English poems of Demetrios Capetanakis.

Katerina Seraïdari studied Modern Greek History at the University of Athens before completing a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2000) with a three-year research grant from the Rectorat de Paris. A reworked version of her dissertation, Le culte des icônes en Grèce, was published in French by the Presses Universitaires du Mirail (Toulouse, 2005). Katerina Seraidari taught social anthropology for three years at the University of Toulouse and is currently an associate member of the Centre d’anthropologie de Toulouse. She is the author of a book in Greek, entitled "May her grace be with us!" Devotional practices and ideological conflicts in the Cyclades (Athens, forthcoming 2007).

Guy Stroumsa is the Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was educated in France, Israel, and the United States and he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978. Much of his career at the Hebrew University has been devoted to the teaching of early and Byzantine Christianity. As the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Christianity, he has sought to develop relations with the Greek Patriarchate and with Greek Universities. Guy Stroumsa has recently published La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'antiquité tardive (Paris, 2005), which will be published in English by Chicago U.P. He has just completed the preparation of Gershom Scholem and Morton Smith, Correspondence (1945-1982) for publication. He is currently working on the birth and early growth of the comparative study of religion in early modern times.

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