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Maria Alessia Rossi (PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art) is an Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She has taught medieval and byzantine art history in diverse settings, such as the Courtauld Institute of Art, adult education institutions in London, and New Jersey prisons. Her main research interests include issues of cultural contact, transmission, and appropriation of Byzantine artistic traditions in the Balkans and in western medieval regions; the role of Christ’s miracles in both text and image in the Mediterranean after 1204; patronage patterns; and the transfer of artistic ideas and the shaping of women’s identities beyond geographical borders. She is author of Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
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Alice Isabella Sullivan (PhD, University of Michigan) is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She teaches art history courses on medieval, Byzantine, Islamic, and early modern topics, as well as seminars on medieval image theory, sacred spaces, as well as methodology and critical theory in art history. Alice’s current projects focus on the history, art, and culture of the principality of Moldavia and regions of the Carpathian Mountains between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has published articles in The Art Bulletin, Speculum, Gesta, Studies in History and Theory of Architecture, The Metropolitan Museum Journal, Romanian Medievalia, and Rutgers Art Review, among others. Her monograph The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia (Brill, 2023) was awarded the 2023 Book Prize from the Early Slavic Studies Association for the best book published between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2023 in the field of early Slavic Studies (pre-1800).
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