PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

Susan Heuck Allen is a lecturer in archaeology at Smith College and a visiting scholar at Brown University. Since earning her Ph.D. degree in Classical Archaeology from Brown University, she has taught at various New England institutions, including Yale University. A recipient of a number of fellowships, she began her career as a field archaeologist, working on Bronze Age sites in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, before devoting her research to the history of archaeology, the subject of her two books: Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (1999) and Excavating Our Past: Perspectives on the History of the Archaeological Institute of America (2002). Her research on Anglophone communities in the Ottoman Empire grew out of her first book, as did a continuing interest in the straits. Her current book-in-progress examines the role of archaeologists from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the acquisition of intelligence for the Greek Desk of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

Anne Alwis has been a lecturer in Classical Literature and Language at the University of Kent, Canterbury, since 2004. She pursued Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College, London, and was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome in 2002. Her main interests lie in hagiography and narrative. She has also published on masculinity and manuscript transmission. Her current project is a translation-commentary volume on continent marriage, which also focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, celibacy and the development of hagiographic ‛romance’ from the fourth to eleventh centuries.

Fotios Baroutsos holds a position of researcher in the Department of History at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, where he received his Ph.D. (2002) in history, after having earned a degree in political science (1995) from the Law School, University of Athens. His scholarly work focuses on the evolution of fiscal institutions and economic thinking in early modern Western Europe, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. He has also participated in research projects on nineteenth century Corfu and the formation of the first Greek state (Eptanisos Politeia). He is currently working on a book on the galley-slave penalty in sixteenth century Venice, based on the diary of a convict.

Marco di Branco is a historian teaching Byzantine History at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Basilicata, also serving as research fellow at the University of Milan. He is the author of many articles and books on late antiquity, as well as Byzantine and Arabic history. His book on the image of late antique Athens, La città dei filosofi. Storia di Atene da Marco Aurelio a Giustiniano (Florence 2006), has just been published, while his translation and commentary of an unpublished work by Theodoros Palaiologos is in press. He is currently revising for publication a monograph on Greek and Roman History in the Islamic sources.

Julia H. Chryssostalis is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Westminster, and Director of the Westminster Centre for International Law and Theory. She studied Law at the School of Law, University of Thessaloniki, and Political Theory at the Department of Government, University of Essex. While training and practising law as an attorney in Athens, she became Head of the Steering Committee for Human Rights Education of the Greek section of Amnesty International. During 2002-03, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, European University Institute in Florence. She writes on law and the city, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, critical theories of subjectivity and sovereignty, the European post-national polity, constitutional relics and other remainders.

Ekaterina P. DellaPorta is Ephore of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, currently serving as Ephore of Byzantine Antiquities and post-Byzantine monuments of the Cyclades. After studying History, Archaeology and French literature at the University of Athens, she received a D.E.A. in Byzantine History from the Sorbonne. In 1979 she joined the Archaeological Service of the Ministry for Culture and worked at the 2nd Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities in Cyclades and the 6th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities. From 1983 to 1992 she worked at the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. From 1992 to 1997 she was appointed to the Permanent Representation of Greece by the European Union in Brussels. During 1998-2006 she was Director of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. Her interests include underwater archaeology, history, and history of art focused mainly on the Venetian period of the Ionian Islands. Her research activities consist of underwater excavations and, in particular, deepwater surveys for establishing an underwater archaeological map of the ancient shipwrecks in the Greek seas. She teaches cultural management and international cultural laws in the postgraduate program of museology at the University of Athens. A member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Universitario Europeo per I Beni Culturali at Ravello in Italy, she has been especially concerned with the legal protection of underwater antiquities and has represented the Hellenic Ministry for Culture on underwater archaeology issues at the Council of Europe and UNESCO.

Archie Dunn is Teaching and Research Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, Birmingham University. In his research he uses texts and the archaeologies of settlement and landscape to explore the socio-economic histories of regions of Byzantine Greece. He has co-directed multi-period interdisciplinary surveys in Eastern Macedonia and Western Boeotia and is a member of the publication teams for excavations in Greece and Cyprus, and for the British Academy's survey of Central Boeotia. For the American excavations at Corinth he has completed a monograph on the inscribed Byzantine and Frankish seals. Related to his doctoral thesis about economy and society in Byzantine Macedonia, he has published many articles concerning economic, administrative, urban history, and rural settlement, with a focus on Greece and the Southern Balkans. He is currently preparing for publication his sections of the surveys of Central and Western Boeotia, which concern the Byzantine era (historical and archaeological frameworks, and monuments).

Heather E. Grossman is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her primary field is the architectural history of the medieval Mediterranean and cultural exchange between East and West in the Crusader period. Her work has been supported by the Archaeological Institute of America and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. As a Senior Fellow of the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Koç University, Istanbul) in 2004-5, Grossman wrote on nineteenth-century photography of ancient and medieval sites and its role in modernization and nation-building efforts in Greece and Turkey. Her book-in-progress, Building Identity: Architecture and Interaction in a Medieval Mediterranean Society, investigates the post-Fourth Crusade churches of Greece and questions of historiography and style.

Jonathan Harris is Reader in Byzantine History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He earned his B.A. in History at King’s College London in 1982. After teaching English in Turkey, he was awarded his M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) at the University of London. He was research fellow at University College London and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths’ College and King’s College London before moving to Royal Holloway in 1999. His first book was Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520 (1995), followed by Byzantium and the Crusades (2003). His research interests lie in the middle and later periods of Byzantine history and he is currently working on a book about the last hundred years before the fall of Constantinople.

Andrea Nanetti received his Laurea and Ph.D. from the University of Bologna. Since 2004 he is Lecturer in "History of Byzantine Maritime Traditions" and since 2006 in "History of Medieval Venice" at the School of Cultural Heritage Preservation of the University of Bologna. His main research field is the history of Latin-Greek-Ottoman Mediterranean after the Fourth Crusade, with a focus on the study of Venetian documents and chronicles. Between 1996 and 2007 part of the research results has been presented in more than fifty papers in Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. He is the editor of the "Morosini Chronicle (1094-1433)," of the Documenta Veneta Coroni et Methoni rogata (s. XIII-XV), and of the original Papal bull "Religiosam vitam" by Gregory X for Mount Sinai (1274). Recent and forthcoming publications include articles and monographs on the Peloponnese and on the European imaginary about Medieval Greece. He is the leader of "Meduproject," a University summer program of Modern Greek language and of professional photography for cultural heritage purposes held in Methoni (since 2002) and in Mykonos (since 2007), in collaboration with the University of Bologna and with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Filippos Oraiopoulos is Associate Professor and Director of the History, Theory and Conceptual Design Labolatory at the Architecture School of the University of Thessaly in Greece. He is the author of Le modèle spatial de l’Orient hellène: le discours néohellénique sur la ville et l’architecture (Paris, 1998; Greek edition, 1998). He participated in the International Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2004), in the International Biennale of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona (2005), and in the International Biennale of Architecture in San Paolo (2007). He recently exhibited in Athens 100 conceptual drawings on the theme of the Labyrinth. His current research focuses on poetics in architecture, the city and the environment. His forthcoming book is entitled Architecture as Eidetic Trace (in Greek).

Takis Pappas (Ph.D., Yale University) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, Greece. He has taught at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki, as well as the Greek Open University. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University. He is the author of Making Party Democracy in Greece (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1999) and various articles that have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics, West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and elsewhere. His current academic and research interests include the comparative study of charismatic leadership, the rise of mass radicalism in democracy, and patronage politics.

James Pettifer is Professor in the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the Defence Academy, UK, and Visiting Professor in the Department of History in the University of Tetovo, FYROM. He works on the nineteenth and twentieth century Balkans, as well as Greece and Turkey. He is author of numerous books on the region, including Greece-Land and People since World War II (1993), The Turkish Labyrinth (1996), The New Macedonian Question (1999), Blue Guide to Bulgaria (1998), Albania-from Anarchy to a Balkan Identity (1997, with Miranda Vickers), Kosova Express (2004) and The Albanian Question (2006, with Miranda Vickers). He wrote the northern Greek section of Blue Guide Greece (7th edition, 2005), and with his daughter Julia, co-authored a book on Butrint, (Tirana, 2007). He was a writer for The London Times during the post-communist and wartime period in the Balkans from 1989 to 2001.

Alicia Simpson is an assistant professor of Byzantine and medieval history at Koç University, Istanbul. She was educated in Greece and the United Kingdom and received her Ph.D. from King’s College, London in 2004. She was a junior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Center (Fall 2003) and most recently a recipient of a grant from the Onassis Foundation for a Byzantine Studies Colloquium entitled "Niketas Choniates. A Byzantine Historian and Writer" that she organized (with Stephanos Efthymiades) at Koç University in May 2007. Her latest article is "Before and After 1204: The Versions of Niketas Choniates’ Historia" in DOP 60 (2006). Her book-in-progress builds upon her doctoral research and aims to provide a new reading and interpretation of the Historia of Niketas Choniates.

Spiros Tegos is a scholar of moral and political philosophy who teaches political theory at the Panteion University, Athens, and in the Philosophy Department of the University of Crete. His doctoral dissertation (“The concept of social sentiments in early modern political philosophy,” Paris X, Nanterre, 2001) is an analysis of the concepts of sympathy and friendship as far as they play a key role in the foundation of political economy and have led philosophers to think in an original way about the transition from ethics to economics. His other research interests relate to the French “Rousseauiste” tradition of social ties as emotional ties based on compassion, and of cosmopolitanism as a common, though problematic, background of the European Enlightenment. He was visiting scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies, 2005-07, and he is currently working on a project about the neglected legacy of the problem of authority in Adam Smith as a key concept in the understanding of civility within the framework of the European Enlightenment.

Iosif Vivilakis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens.  Following his first degree in Theology (1984), he earned a second degree in Theatre Studies (1994) and his Ph.D. in Theatre Studies (1996), all from the University of Athens. His book Theatrical Representation in Byzantium and the West (Athens, 2003) focuses on theatre during the late Byzantine era. He has served on the academic cultural committee of the Rector of the University of Athens and organized “A Visit with the Arts,” a festival at the Old University of Athens, which brought together academics, artists, and the community.  He has taught courses on the history of the European Medieval theatre, Byzantine theatre, theatre education, and historical and literary approaches to theatrical sources. He is a regular contributor of reviews for the daily newspaper Kathimerini. 

Daphne Voudouri is assistant professor of law in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Athens, where she has been teaching cultural law and cultural policy since 1995. She studied Law at the University of Athens and earned her Doctorât D'Etat in Law from the University of Paris II. She served as Expert Counselor (1993-98) on cultural agreements at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was a member (1997-2002) of the committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture for the drafting of the current law on cultural heritage. Author of a number of monographs, her most recent book is The State and the Museums: The Institutional Framework of the Archaeological Museums, Athens-Thessaloniki: 2003 (in Greek). Her research and scholarly articles focus on legal, institutional and public policy issues in the fields of culture, cultural heritage and museums.

Visiting Fellows, 2006-2007
Visiting Fellows, 2005-2006
Visiting Fellows, 2004-2005
Visiting Fellows, 2003-2004
Visiting Fellows, 2002-2003
Visiting Fellows, 2001-2002
Visiting Fellows, 2000-2001