Christensen, Jonas J. H.
Jonas J. H. Christensen completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and his MA in Byzantine Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include Byzantine poetry, monasticism, autobiographies, and theology. The subject of his thesis, defended November 2015, was Nikephoros Blemmydes’ Diegesis Merike read in the context of autobiographical foundation documents.
Tamás, Hajnalka
Hajnalka Tamás is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on various aspects of late antique Christianity, especially the development of Christian identity and asceticism. Her PhD dissertation (2014) surveyed the fourth and fifth century Pannonian 'passiones' from a text-critical, historical as well as theological perspective. Her current project deals with the social implications of urban asceticism in Late Antiquity.
Popovic, Mihailo St.
Mihailo St. Popovic is project leader of the projects "Tabula Imperii Byzantini" (TIB) and Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received both his MA (2000) and PhD (2005) with highest distinction from the University of Vienna. In 2011 he thaught “History of South-East Europe and Byzantine Studies” at the University of Vienna. Among his research interests: history and culture of South Eastern Europe (7th–16th c.), late Byzantine history (1204 – 1453), gender studies, historical geography, and cartography of the Mediterranean, digital humanities and historical geographic information systems (HGIS).
Popovic, Mihailo St.
Mihailo St. Popovic is project leader of the projects "Tabula Imperii Byzantini" (TIB) and Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received both his MA (2000) and PhD (2005) with highest distinction from the University of Vienna. In 2011 he thaught “History of South-East Europe and Byzantine Studies” at the University of Vienna. Among his research interests: history and culture of South Eastern Europe (7th–16th c.), late Byzantine history (1204 – 1453), gender studies, historical geography, and cartography of the Mediterranean, digital humanities and historical geographic information systems (HGIS).
van ‘t Westeinde, Jessica
Jessica van ‘t Westeinde has recently completed her PhD (2016) at Durham University where she focused on Roman aristocrats in Jerome’s epistolary correspondence. Currently she is conducting research at Aarhus University (Denmark), School of Culture and Society, funded by an AUFF visiting grant. She looks into Jewish and Christian ideas of Diaspora identities in Rome in the context of shifting roles of religion in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. The specific methodologies applied mean that she is also connected with the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt (“Lived Ancient Religion” project).
Silnovic, Nirvana
Nirvana Silnovic has obtained a BA in Art History and Swedish Language and Culture from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, an MA in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Art History), and an MA in Medieval Studies from the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University. Her research interests include Roman and Late Antique art and archaeology, provincial art and archaeology, and ancient religion (particularly mystery cults). She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Medieval Studies (CEU), working on a dissertation provisionally entitled “The Art of
the Mithraic Cult in the Roman Province of Dalmatia,” under the supervision of Professor Volker Menze. She is also teaching Croatian language within the Source Language Teaching Group at CEU.
Asp-Talwar, Annika
Annika Asp-Talwar is a final year PhD student at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research examines the political relationship between Trebizond and Constantinople during the late Byzantine period.
Mitrea, Mihail
Mihail Mitrea is doctoral candidate in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, working on the hagiographical oeuvre of Philotheos Kokkinos. He published articles with Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and is junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the 2016–2017 academic year. His research interests lie in the field of Byzantine literature, theology, hagiography, epistolography, Greek palaeography and manuscript studies.
Aleksidze, Nikoloz
Nikoloz Aleksidze is a Research Associate at Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (The Cult of Saints research project) and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He also worked as the Dean of Social Sciences at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia). In 2013 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. He has prepared a monograph, The Schism: An Interpretive Schema of Caucasian History, which is currently submitted for review. Meanwhile he is working on a monograph which examines various aspects of religion and political thought in medieval and nineteenth-century Caucasus.
Silnovic, Nirvana
Nirvana Silnovic has obtained a BA in Art History and Swedish Language and Culture from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, an MA in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Art History), and an MA in Medieval Studies from the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University. Her research interests include Roman and Late Antique art and archaeology, provincial art and archaeology, and ancient religion (particularly mystery cults). She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Medieval Studies (CEU), working on a dissertation provisionally entitled “The Art of
the Mithraic Cult in the Roman Province of Dalmatia,” under the supervision of Professor Volker Menze. She is also teaching Croatian language within the Source Language Teaching Group at CEU.
Goarzin, Maël
Maël Goarzin is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). His research focuses on late antique philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and biography. He is particularly interested in the practical aspects of the philosopher’s life. Through a careful study of Neoplatonic biographies, he wants to reconstruct the ideal way of life conveyed by the philosopher’s life and offered to Neoplatonic students.
Veres, Máté
Máté Veres is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Central European University. He holds an MA-equivalent degree in philosophy from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest) and is currently finishing his dissertation on skeptical argumentation concerning theology in Cicero and Sextus Empiricus. He was a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Cornell University (Ithaca, New York). His research interests include various topics in Hellenistic and Late Antique philosophy, the history of scepticism, and Early Modern philosophical theology.
Ellis, Nicholas
Nicholas Ellis pursued his graduate studies in Jewish and Christian origins at Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) and Oxford University. He is now a visiting research scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). He has published primarily in the reception of Hebrew Bible and New Testament Interpretation, as well as in the area of Greek linguistics. His doctoral dissertation on "The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing: Cosmic Trials and Biblical Interpretation in the Epistle of James and other Jewish Literature" has been recently published with Mohr Siebeck. Dr. Ellis lives with his wife and four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Hoffarth, Christian
Christian Hoffarth has recently completed his PhD in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Hamburg (2016). His studies were supported by a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Prior to his PhD, he received a magister degree in History and German Studies from the University of Heidelberg. Since 2014, he has been a research fellow at the Chair for Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the McGill University, Montreal.
