Notes on Contributors
Angela Andersen
specializes in the architecture of the Islamic world. She received the 2016 Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016–17. She has published articles on the Alevi Muslim minority and the role of community memory in understanding religious architecture.
Evanthia Baboula
is Assistant Professor of the arts of the Eastern Mediterranean at the University of Victoria. Her current research centres on the study of the cross-cultural encounters in the Crusader and Late Byzantine periods and the urban topography of southern Greece during the phase of Ottoman rule.
Anthony Cutler
is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford University in 2012, he has written prolifically on medieval art, including works on ivory carving, such as The Hand of the Master: Craftsmanship, Ivory, and Society in Byzantium (Princeton University Press, 1994). He is currently working on a book entitled The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange between Byzantium, the Islamic World, and Beyond.
May Farhat
is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University of Beirut. She specializes in the architecture of Islamic Iran. She has also written on issues of art collecting and national identity in modern Lebanon, and is the author of “A Mediterraneanist’s Collection: Henri Pharaon’s ‘Treasure House of Arab Art,’” Ars Orientalis 42 (2012); and “Shiʿi Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: Mashhad under the Early Safavid Shahs,” Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies 47, no. 2 (2014). She is completing her book, Shiʿi Piety and Legitimacy in Early Modern Iran: The Shrine of Ali al-Rida in Mashhad.
Jaroslav Folda
is N. Ferebee Taylor Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published extensively on Crusader art and has recently focused on the development and transmission of chrysography (golden highlighting). His book entitled, The Virgin and Child Hodegetria in Byzantine, Crusader and Central Italian Art in the High Middle Ages: The Radiance and Reflection of Chrysography on Icon and Panel Painting, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.
Rico Franses
is Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History, American University of Beirut, and Director of the University Art Collections and Galleries. He has published on Byzantine Art and on the relation of psychoanalytic theory to the visual arts and has translated Marie José Mondzain’s Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary (Stanford, 2004).
Mat Immerzeel
is an art historian and archaeologist who specializes in the art of the Christian communities of the Middle East. He has been working at Leiden University in the Netherlands since 1989 and is currently at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the director of the Paul van Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture in the Middle East and editor-in-chief of the journal Eastern Christian Art in its Late Antique and Islamic Contexts.
Lesley Jessop
is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. Her early work focused on saints’ lives and the role of their images in medieval Italy and has been published in The Papers of the British School at Rome and RACAR. Her current research examines the role of secular art in an ecclesiastical context, with specific reference to thirteenth-century sculpture in France.
Marcus Milwright
is Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Victoria. He is the author of six books, including The Dome of the Rock and Its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and numerous other publications. He has completed his next book, which is entitled, The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea (to be published by Edinburgh University Press). He is the series editor of The Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World (Brill) and creator of the Crafts of Syria website.
John Osborne
is Distinguished Research Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa. His publications cover topics ranging from the Roman catacombs, mural paintings from excavated churches such as San Clemente and Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome, and seventeenth-century antiquarian drawings of medieval monuments to the medieval understanding and use of Rome’s heritage of ancient buildings and statuary.
Glenn Peers
is Professor of Art History at the Department of Art and Music Histories, at Syracuse University. He was the editor of Byzantine Things in the World (2013), and author of Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium (2004) and Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (2001).
Bas Snelders
is a researcher who specializes in aspects of identity and medieval Christian-Muslim interaction. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université Sorbonne-Panthéon, Paris, in 2012–2013. He is also co-founder and member of the editorial board of the periodical Eastern Christian Art in its Late Antique and Islamic Contexts.
Annemarie Weyl Carr
is Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She has published widely on Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting, art and issues of cultural interchange in the eastern Mediterranean, particularly on medieval Cyprus, and on women artists in the Middle Ages. A former president of the International Center of Medieval Art, she is now the Vice President of the Board of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia.