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| awards = [[MacArthur Fellowship]] |
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| discipline = Byzantine studies, history, philology |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between [[Byzantium]] and [[Islam]]; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics. |
She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between [[Byzantium]] and [[Islam]]; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture [[Fall of Constantinople|after 1453]], along with other various topics. |
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Fluent in [[classical Greek]] and [[Arabic]],<ref name=":0" /> she also understands [[Coptic language|Coptic]], [[Latin]], and [[Syriac language|Syriac]], and speaks Modern Greek, French, and English fluently. She formerly taught at [[Princeton University]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=mavroudi | title=Department of History }}</ref> |
Fluent in [[classical Greek]] and [[Arabic]],<ref name=":0" /> she also understands [[Coptic language|Coptic]], [[Latin]], and [[Syriac language|Syriac]], and speaks [[Modern Greek]], [[French language|French]], and [[English language|English]] fluently. She formerly taught at [[Princeton University]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=mavroudi | title=Department of History }}</ref> |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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Maria Mavroudi | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Anatolia College, University of Thessaloniki, Harvard University |
| Thesis | The So-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ihor Ševčenko |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Byzantine studies, history, philology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967)[1] is a Greek-born American Byzantinist, historian, and philologist.[2] She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.[3][4]
Education
[edit]Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece; from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree;[when?] and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies.[5] Her doctoral advisor was Ihor Ševčenko.[6]
Career
[edit]She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.
Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic,[1] she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks Modern Greek, French, and English fluently. She formerly taught at Princeton University.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 2004, MacArthur Fellowship[1]
Works
[edit]- Mavroudi, Maria V. (1998). The So-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources (dissertation). Harvard University.
- Mavroudi, Maria V. (2002). A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources. Volume 36 of Medieval Mediterranean. Brill. ISBN 9789004120792.[8]
- The occult sciences in Byzantium, Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006, ISBN 978-954-8446-02-0
- the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12079-2
- "Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, ISBN 978-0-88402-280-0
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Burress, Charles (2004-09-28). "The MacArthur Grants: Bay Area Profiles, Professor strives to shed light on Byzantine era". SFGATE. The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ^ Toulas, George (February 20, 2022). "Μαρία Μαυρουδή: Οριακές νίκες δεν κερδίζονται χωρίς τον Εφιάλτη τους" [Maria Mavroudi: Marginal victories are not won without their Nightmare]. parallaximag.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ^ "UC Berkeley, Department of History". history.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2002-07-02.
- ^ "09.28.2004 - History professor Maria Mavroudi receives MacArthur fellowship".
- ^ Harvard Magazine, Volume 100. Associated Harvard Alumni. Circulation Department. 1997. p. 52.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences. A. University Microfilms. 1998. p. 1565.
- ^ "Department of History".
- ^ "MacArthur Foundation Grant Awarded to Byzantium Genius". Greek News. 2004-10-11. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
External links
[edit]- UC Berkeley Faculty Page
- "Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché - A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi", Ideas Roadshow, 2014
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