Members of the Standing Committee

Elizabeth Papp Kamali

ekamali@law.harvard.edu

Chair of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law

J.D. Harvard University, Ph.D. University of Michigan

Professor Kamali teaches criminal law and the history of English law and legal institutions. Her research focuses on the development of criminal law within the English common law tradition in the Middle Ages, in particular the evolution of the trial jury...

Dimiter Angelov

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Chair, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

Professor Angelov's research addresses the intellectual and political history of the Byzantine world after the tenth century. Among his publications are Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium (1204-1330) (Cambridge University Press, 2007)...

Josiah Blackmore

jblackmore@fas.harvard.edu

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

Ph.D. Harvard University

Josiah Blackmore is a scholar of Iberian literature and culture, with a focus on medieval and early modern Portuguese writing. He is the author of Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)...

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

acpistoja@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature

Ph.D. Cambridge University

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja received his B.A. in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Milan (Italy), his M.Phil. in European Literatures and Cultures, and his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of...

Suzannah Clark

sclark@fas.harvard.edu

Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music Theory

Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center

Ph.D. Princeton University

Suzannah Clark is a scholar of medieval and modern music history and theory, whose teaching and research interests range from the music of Franz Schubert, to the history of tonal theory, to music analysis, to the history and performance of medieval music...

Thomas B.F. Cummins

cummins@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art

Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles

After being spawned at the bottom of the Hoboken River, birthplace also of Frank Sinatra, TBFC left the hallowed waters of New Jersey’s most famous water way and went on to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution and received his PhD from UCLA. (Actually he...

Brian FitzGerald

bfitzgerald@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies and Religion

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Medieval Studies

D.Phil. Oxford University

Brian FitzGerald is Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion. A scholar of medieval history, his research focuses on the intellectual and religious culture of Europe from the twelfth to the fo­urteenth century. His first book, Inspiration...

Sean Gilsdorf

gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies

Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies

Director of Graduate Studies in Medieval Studies

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Sean Gilsdorf is Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an affiliate member of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology. His research addresses the intellectual, religious, and political history of the early and high...

Luis Girón Negrón

giron@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. Harvard University

Luis Girón Negrón is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures . His research focuses upon medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, and on the religious and cultural life of Islamic, Jewish, and...

Jeffrey Hamburger

jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu

Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture

Ph.D. Yale University

Professor Hamburger's research addresses the art of the High and later Middle Ages, with a focus on illuminated manuscripts. Areas of special interest include devotional imagery, interrelationships among art, mysticism and theology, diagrams and the...

Amy Hollywood

ahollywood@hds.harvard.edu

Elisabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Amy Hollywood's research ranges from the history of medieval Christian mysticism to the broader philosophical conception of enthusiasm and the mystical within the European tradition. She is co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of the Cambridge Companion to...

Ioli Kalavrezou

kalavrez@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History

Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Ph.D. University of California Berkeley

On leave Fall 2025

A senior fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center, a member of the Dumbarton Oaks editorial board, and a member of the Steering Committee for Harvard's Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies , Ioli Kalavrezou is a specialist in the history of Byzantine...