Education

Ph.D., Institute of fine Arts, New York University

Areas of Interest

Art history; religious studies; intersection of ritual and art; monumental painting

Publications

• Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Archaeological, Liturgical and Theological Views on Religious Screens, East and West (Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA, 2007)
• Medieval Messenia: in Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino, ed. J.Davis (Austin, TX, 1998), 210-42; Greek Translation: Pylos he Ammoudere (Athens, 2005)
• The Byzantine Village Church: Observations on its Location and on Agricultural Aspects of its Program,” in Les villages dans l’Empire byzantin (IVe-XVe siècle), Réalités byzantines, XI, ed. C. Morrisson, J. Lefort, J.-P. Sodini (Paris, 2006)
• The Chora Parekklesion, the Hope for a Peaceful Afterlife, and Monastic Devotional Practices” in The Kariye Camii Reconsidered, ed. H. A. Klein, R. G. Ousterhout, B. Pitarakis, Istanbul Research Institute Symposium Series 1 (Istanbul, 2011)

Awards

• Arts Initiative Grant
• J. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
• Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
• Transdisciplinary Seed Grant, UCLA
• Faculty Research Grant, UCLA
• Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant
• Foundation Fellowship
• J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
• General Research Board, University of Maryland
• Foundation Fellowship
• Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship
• Kress Fellowship
• Robert Lehman Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts
• Kress Fellowship
• Gennadius Fellowship American School of Classical Studies
• Robert Lehman Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts