Christina Maranci joins the Harvard faculty this year from Tufts University, where she was Professor in the Department of Art and Art History. Her research explores the art and culture of Armenia, focusing upon the late antique and medieval periods. She is the author of four books and over one hundred articles and essays on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Brepols, 2015), winner of the Medieval Academy of America's Karen Gould Prize for Art History and the Sona Aronian Prize for best Armenian Studies monograph, and The Art of Armenia (Oxford University Press, 2018). She also has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Apollo, The Conversation, and Hyperallergic, and currently is working on a book about the city of Ani during the tenth and eleventh centuries, exploring issues of art and architecture, epigraphy, landscape, theology, politics, and social roles. Professor Maranci is the co-founder of East of Byzantium, a workshop and lecture series designed to support graduate students working on the Christian East, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies.