# Christina Maranci Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies and Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies Ph.D. Princeton University ![Maranci](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/medievalstudies/files/cmaranci.jpg?itok=7qjNxDhO) location\_on 6 Divinity Ave, room 207 email laptop\_windows [Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations](https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu/people/christina-maranci) Christina Maranci joined the Harvard faculty from Tufts University, where she was Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art and Architectural 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*](https://eastofbyzantium.org/), 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](/special-graduate-program-byzantine-studies). - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Standing Committee](/committee-members) [Special Program in Byzantine Studies](/people/special-program-byzantine-studies)