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]
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]
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]
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