Ioli Kalavrezou
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 images, with a particular interest in icon production and the intersection of religious imagery and court politics. She is the author of Byzantine Icons in Steatite (Vienna Academy of Sciences, 1985) and editor of Byzantine Women and their World(Yale University Press, 2003), and currently is completing a monograph on the tenth-century Paris Psalter (Paris, B.N. ms gr. 139).