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Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967) is a Greek-born American Byzantinist, historian, and philologist. She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Education

Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece; from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree; and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies. Her doctoral advisor was Ihor Ševčenko.

Career

She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.

Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks Modern Greek, French, and English fluently. She formerly taught at Princeton University.

Awards

• 2004, MacArthur Fellowship

Works

• Mavroudi, Maria V. (1998). The So-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources (dissertation). Harvard University.
• Mavroudi, Maria V. (2002). A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources. Volume 36 of Medieval Mediterranean. Brill. ISBN 9789004120792.
• The occult sciences in Byzantium, Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006, ISBN 978-954-8446-02-0
• the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12079-2
• "Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, ISBN 978-0-88402-280-0

References

1. ^ Burress, Charles (2004-09-28). "The MacArthur Grants: Bay Area Profiles, Professor strives to shed light on Byzantine era". SFGATE. The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
2. Toulas, George (February 20, 2022). "Μαρία Μαυρουδή: Οριακές νίκες δεν κερδίζονται χωρίς τον Εφιάλτη τους" [Maria Mavroudi: Marginal victories are not won without their Nightmare]. parallaximag.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-04-21.
3. "UC Berkeley, Department of History". history.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2002-07-02.
4. "09.28.2004 - History professor Maria Mavroudi receives MacArthur fellowship".
5. Harvard Magazine, Volume 100. Associated Harvard Alumni. Circulation Department. 1997. p. 52.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
6. Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences. A. University Microfilms. 1998. p. 1565.
7. "Department of History".
8. "MacArthur Foundation Grant Awarded to Byzantium Genius". Greek News. 2004-10-11. Retrieved 2022-04-21.

External links

• UC Berkeley Faculty Page
• "Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché - A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi", Ideas Roadshow, 2014

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