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John Demetracopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine philosophy and theology, editor-in-chief of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project" Laura Franco, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and hagiography, editions of Byzantine texts, Greek palaeography Michael Heslop, MA (Honorary Research Associate): The defence system of Rhodes in the medieval period Kostas Kalimtzis, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek philosophical and political thought John Karabelas, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Post-Byzantine and modern Greek historiography Hieromonk Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos (Stavrides), PhD (Research Associate): Orthodox theology and ecclesiology; Orthodox and Irish spirituality Georgios Liakopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Ottoman Epigraphy and Palaeography, Historical Geography, the Greek world in the Ottoman Empire. Anthony Luttrell, MA, DPhil (Honorary Research Associate): the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes and Malta; the Greek population of Rhodes in the Medieval Period Nikolaos Moschonas, MA, PhD (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Research Fellow): Greek and Latin palaeography; Byzantine relations with Western Europe. Fevronia Nousia, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and education; editions of Byzantine texts; Greek palaeography Konstantinos Palaiologos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography Vasos Pasiourtides, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography Nil Palabiyik-Pektas, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): history of the Greek book in the post-Byzantine and early modern period; Greek communities in the Ottoman Empire Philip Taylor (Honorary Research Associate): Porphyrogenitus Project, TeX editing; electronic editions of Byzantine texts Christos Triantafyllopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography Christopher Wright, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek and Latin palaeography; editing of Greek texts; history of Byzantium and the Latin East Visiting scholars Annaclara Cataldi Palau, MA, PhD (Visiting Professor): Greek palaeography Richard Clogg, MA, DPhil (Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor): Modern Greek history Costas N. Constantinides, MA, PhD (University of Ioannina): Byzantine education, history and literature; Greek palaeography Sophia Kapetanaki, MA, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese): Byzantine literature and Greek palaeography Andreas Meitanis, MA, PhD (Zurich International School): Byzantine literature and society; Greek palaeography Apostolos Spanos, MA, PhD (Assistant Professor, Agder University College, Norway): Byzantine history, literature and political ideology; Greek palaeography

MEMBERS AND STAFF

Steering Group

Professor Paul Hogg, Vice Principal Research & Enterprise, Chairman of the Hellenic Institute Steering Group
Professor Katie Normington, Vice Principal Staffing and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty
Professor Sarah Ansari, Head of History Department
Professor Boris Rankov, Head of Classics Department
Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, Director of the Hellenic Institute
Mr Michael Heslop, Representing the Friends of the Hellenic Institute
Mrs Edmée Leventis, OBE
Professor Emeritus Richard Clogg, GCOH
Professor Francis Robinson, CBE
Dr George Vassiadis, Deputy Director of the Hellenic Institute

Associated Staff

Professor Richard Alston, BA, PhD: Roman history, especially Roman Egypt; urbanism in the ancient world; Roman army
Professor Veronica Della Dora, BA, PhD: Cultural and historical geography; landscape studies; history of cartography; Byzantine and post-Byzantine sacred geographies
Charalambos Dendrinos, MA, PhD (Senior Lecturer): Byzantine literature and Greek palaeography; editing and transmission of Byzantine texts
David Gwynn, MA, DPhil (Reader): Late Antique history and theology
Professor Jonathan Harris, MA, PhD: Byzantine history, 1000-1453; Byzantium and the West, especially during the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance
Richard Hawley, MA, DPhil (Senior Lecturer): Greek literature, especially drama; Greek social history; women in classical antiquity; later Greek literature
Professor Peregrine Horden, MA: Byzantine medicine; the Mediterranean world
Professor Ahuvia Kahane, MA, DPhil: Cultural theory; Greek literature, especially Homer and the epic tradition; genre and literary history
Aikaterini Kolotourou, PhD (Teaching Fellow): Greek history and archaeology
Christos Kremmydas, MA, PhD (Lecturer): Greek rhetoric and oratory (especially Demosthenes); Athenian political and social history (especially law); Greek papyrology
Nick Lowe, MA, PhD (Reader): Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy; Greek religion
Jari Pakkanen, BA, PhD (Senior Lecturer): Greek archaeology and Architecture; the methodology of architectural reconstructions
Professor Boris Rankov, MA, DPhil: Greek triereme project; Roman history; archaeology of the Roman Empire
Professor Francis Robinson, MA, PhD: Greek influence on Islamic thought
Professor Lene Rubinstein, MA, PhD: Athenian social history; Athenian oratory and law; papyrology; Roman Egypt
Professor Anne Sheppard, MA, DPhil: Greek philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; ancient literary criticism
Efi Spentzou, MA, DPhil: Reception of the classical tradition, especially in modern Greece; classics and modern critical thought
Polymnia Tsagouria, MA, PhD (Tutor seconded by Greek Ministry of Education): Modern Greek language, literature and culture
George Vassiadis, MA, PhD (Lecturer): Modern Greek History; Anglo-Hellenic Relations; Greek Diaspora
Professor David Wiles, MA, PhD: Greek and Roman theatre; masks in Greek theatre; issues relating to performance space
Barbara Zipser, PhD (AHRC Research Fellow): Byzantine manuscripts; Greek medicine; history of texts

Research Associates

Samuel Barnish, MA, DPhil (former Lecturer): Early Christianity; transformation of the Roman world; Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries AD; Cassiodorus
Lia Chisacof, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Post-Byzantine studies; Greek palaeography; modern Greek language and literature; Greek authors in the Romanian principalities (18th-20th c.)
John Demetracopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine philosophy and theology, editor-in-chief of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"
Laura Franco, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and hagiography, editions of Byzantine texts, Greek palaeography
Michael Heslop, MA (Honorary Research Associate): The defence system of Rhodes in the medieval period
Kostas Kalimtzis, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek philosophical and political thought
John Karabelas, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Post-Byzantine and modern Greek historiography
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos (Stavrides), PhD (Research Associate): Orthodox theology and ecclesiology; Orthodox and Irish spirituality
Georgios Liakopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Ottoman Epigraphy and Palaeography, Historical Geography, the Greek world in the Ottoman Empire.
Anthony Luttrell, MA, DPhil (Honorary Research Associate): the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes and Malta; the Greek population of Rhodes in the Medieval Period
Nikolaos Moschonas, MA, PhD (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Research Fellow): Greek and Latin palaeography; Byzantine relations with Western Europe.
Fevronia Nousia, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and education; editions of Byzantine texts; Greek palaeography
Konstantinos Palaiologos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography
Vasos Pasiourtides, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography
Nil Palabiyik-Pektas, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): history of the Greek book in the post-Byzantine and early modern period; Greek communities in the Ottoman Empire
Philip Taylor (Honorary Research Associate): Porphyrogenitus Project, TeX editing; electronic editions of Byzantine texts
Christos Triantafyllopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography
Christopher Wright, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek and Latin palaeography; editing of Greek texts; history of Byzantium and the Latin East

Visiting scholars

Annaclara Cataldi Palau, MA, PhD (Visiting Professor): Greek palaeography
Richard Clogg, MA, DPhil (Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor): Modern Greek history
Costas N. Constantinides, MA, PhD (University of Ioannina): Byzantine education, history and literature; Greek palaeography
Sophia Kapetanaki, MA, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese): Byzantine literature and Greek palaeography
Andreas Meitanis, MA, PhD (Zurich International School): Byzantine literature and society; Greek palaeography
Apostolos Spanos, MA, PhD (Assistant Professor, Agder University College, Norway): Byzantine history, literature and political ideology; Greek palaeography

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