Peter Robert Lamont Brown is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity,and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned,in particular,the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe,and the relation between religion and society.
Cyril Alexander Mango was a British scholar of the history,art,and architecture of the Byzantine Empire. He is celebrated as one of the leading Byzantinists of the 20th century.
Veena Das, FBA in India is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of theoretical specialisation include the anthropology of violence,social suffering,and the state. Das has received multiple international awards including the Ander Retzius Gold Medal,delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture and was named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dame Averil Millicent Cameron,often cited as A. M. Cameron,is a British historian. She writes on Late Antiquity,Classics,and Byzantine Studies. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford,and the Warden of Keble College,Oxford,between 1994 and 2010.
Walter Pohl is an Austrian historian who is Professor of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Medieval History at the University of Vienna. He is a leading member of the Vienna School of History.
The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is an independent biomedical research organisation founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The institute employs around 250 people from over 40 countries,who perform basic research. IMBA is located at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) and shares facilities and scientific training programs with the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),the basic research center of Boehringer Ingelheim.
The Wittgenstein Award is an Austrian science award supporting the notion that "scientists should be guaranteed the greatest possible freedom and flexibility in the performance of their research." The prize money of up to 1.5 million euro make it the most highly endowed science award of Austria,money that is tied to research activities within the five years following the award. The Wittgenstein-Preis is named after the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and is conferred once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science.
Nicholas Purcell FBA is Camden Professor of Ancient History and a fellow of Brasenose College,Oxford. Before holding this post he was University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St John's College,Oxford.
John Richard "Jaś" Elsner,is a British art historian and classicist,who is Professor of Late Antique Art in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford,Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College,Oxford,and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is mainly known for his work on Roman art,including Late Antiquity and Byzantine art,as well as the historiography of art history,and is a prolific writer on these and other topics. Elsner has been described as "one of the most well-known figures in the field of ancient art history,respected for his notable erudition,extensive range of interests and expertise,his continuing productivity,and above all,for the originality of his mind",and by Shadi Bartsch,a colleague at Chicago,as "the predominant contemporary scholar of the relationship between classical art and ancient subjectivity".
Paul Magdalino is a British Byzantinist who is Bishop Wardlaw Professor (Emeritus) of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews. He received the 1993 Runciman Award for his monograph on the reign of Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180),which challenged Niketas Choniates' negative appraisal of the ruler.
Sabine Schmidtke is a German academic,historian,and scholar of Islamic studies. She is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Schmidtke was elected Member to the American Philosophical Society in 2017. She was appointed Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Susanna K. Elm is a German historian and classicist. She is the Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of European History at the Department of History at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of the later Roman Empire,late Antiquity and early Christianity. She is Associate Editor of the journals Church History and Studies in Late Antiquity and is a member of the editorial board for Classical Antiquity.
Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
Ulrike Diebold is an Austrian physicist and materials scientist who is a professor of surface science at TU Vienna. She is known for her groundbreaking research on the atomic scale geometry and electronic structure of metal-oxide surfaces.
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe,heritage,and archaeological theory.
Birgitta Eder is an Austrian archaeologist and Mycenologist. She is the director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens.
John Frederick Haldon FBA is a British historian,and Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History emeritus,professor of Byzantine history and Hellenic Studies emeritus,as well as former director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
In the Byzantine Empire,cities were centers of economic and cultural life. A significant part of the cities were founded during the period of Greek and Roman antiquity. The largest of them were Constantinople,Alexandria,Thessaloniki and Antioch,with a population of several hundred thousand people. Large provincial centers had a population of up to 50,000. Although the spread of Christianity negatively affected urban institutions,in general,late antique cities continued to develop continuously. Byzantium remained an empire of cities,although the urban space had changed a lot. If the Greco-Roman city was a place of pagan worship and sports events,theatrical performances and chariot races,the residence of officials and judges,then the Byzantine city was primarily a religious center where the bishop's residence was located.
Ann Marie Yasin is an Associate Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Southern California specializing in the architecture and material culture of the Roman and late antique world. She studies materiality,built-environments,landscapes,and urbanism as they pertain to the ancient and late ancient religious worlds.
Sergey Arkadievich Ivanov FBA is a Russian Historian and Byzantinist,expert in the Middle Ages culture. Sergey Ivanov is professor at the Higher School of Economics. He is best known as the author of the books Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond (2006) and In Search of Constantinople (2022).
