Notes on Contributors
Zachary Chitwood Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is Professor of Byzantine Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS (“Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850–1550)”).
Tinatin Chronz Dr. phil. (2012), University of Bonn, is a post-doctoral researcher (Kartvelologist) on the MAMEMS project. She has published many articles on the liturgical history of Byzantium and neighboring (Georgian, Armenian, and Slavonic) churches.
Stefan Eichert Ph.D. (1981), Natural History Museum Vienna, is an archaeologist and digital humanist. He specializes in early medieval archaeology and history as well as the development of computer applications for cultural heritage. He has published monographs and many articles in these fields.
Martina Filosa is a postgraduate fellow in Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne, where she specializes in Byzantine Sigillography and Digital Humanities, topics on which she has published extensively, including “Byzantine Seals from the Robert Feind Collection in Cologne: Research and Publication in the Context of the Digital Humanities,” Revue des études byzantines 79 (2021), 297–322 (with M.T. Catalano, and C. Sode).
Mihai-D. Grigore Ph.D. (2007), in an Associate Research Fellow in religious history at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. He has published monographs, anthologies and many articles on interconfessional dynamics in Europe, including the co-edited volume Orthodoxy in the Agora (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024).
Michel Kaplan Ph.D. (1988), University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine History at that university. He has published monographs, books for wider readership and many articles on Byzantium, including Pourquoi Byzance? Un Empire de onze siècles (Gallimard, 2016).
Vladimer Kekelia is a scholar at the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts. He has published many works and articles on the history of Georgia, Georgian manuscripts, Georgian-Armenian epigraphy and the history of the Georgian community in the Holy Land.
Kirill A. Maksimovič Ph.D. (1996, second doctorate 2008), the Institute of Russian Language, Moscow. He has published books and articles on Byzantine and Slavic legal history, Byzantine and Western canon law in Church Slavonic and Old Russian translations.
Zisis Melissakis Ph.D. (2002), Democritus University of Thrace, is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He has published catalogues of Greek manuscripts, old printed books, and monastic documents from various collections and many articles on Greek palaeography and the history of monastic libraries.
Nicholas Melvani Ph.D. (2008), Athens University, is a research associate at Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz. He has published several articles on Byzantine monasticism and the topography of Constantinople, including “The Last Century of the Chora Monastery,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 114 (2021).
Vanessa R. de Obaldía Ph.D. (2018), is an Arabist and Ottomanist on the MAMEMS project. She has published and co-edited collective volumes and numerous articles about religious minorities in Ottoman Türkiye and Greece. She is managing a Athonite archival cataloguing project and curating exhibitions.
Nina Richards (née Nina Brundke) Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage/Natural History Museum Vienna, is an osteoarchaeologist specializing in the Early Middle Ages of central Europe and digital humanities.
Kostis Smyrlis Ph.D. (2002), Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, is senior researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation. He has edited Byzantine documents and published La fortune des grands monastères byzantins (2006) as well as several papers on Byzantium.
Apolon Tabuashvili Ph.D. (2010), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Associate Professor as well as the head and chief researcher of the Department of Archival Studies and Digital Archives of the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts. He has published many works on the history of Georgia, including the monograph Prices in Feudal Georgia (Tbilisi, 2019).
Alexander Watzinger is the lead developer of OpenAtlas at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He also published “OpenAtlas—How to Grow Software for Historians” as part of Power in Landscape. Geographic and Digital Approaches on Historical Research (Eudora, 2019).