Liz James, e.james@sussex.ac.uk Department of Art History at Sussex, Director of the Sussex Centre of Byzantine Cultural History, Director of the Leverhulme International Network of the Composition of Byzantine Mosaic Glass Tesserae.
Address: Department of Art History, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK.
Tel: (00 44) (0)1273 873611
Nadine Schibille, n.schibille@sussex.ac.uk is temporary lecturer in art history, responsible for teaching all aspect of late antique and Byzantine art history for the duration of Liz’s Leverhulme Fellowship. Spending two years as a Postdoctoral teaching fellow at Stanford University in the US, Nadine held a Getty Research Grant in Paris. From Oct 2009-2011 she was a Marie Curie IEF in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford.
Address: Department of Art History, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK.
Bente Bjornholt, b.k.bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk Research Development Officer. Associate Tutor in the Department of Art History and former Network Facilitator on the Leverhulme International Network of the Composition of Byzantine Mosaic Glass Tesserae.
Address: Falmer House, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QF, UK.
Tel: (00 44) (0)1273 876592
Current PhD students
Neil Churchill: nchurchill@sussex.ac.uk 'Depictions of power in the imperial art of the early Macedonian Emperors: Basil, Leo and Alexander'.
Neil studied early medieval history at Cambridge, and specialised in the court culture of Charles the Bald. He then got side-tracked doing an MBA to support his work at a number of NGOs and is now returning to study the relationship between art and politics in the ninth century.
Engy Eshak is researching the lives of women in Coptic Egypt in the Byzantine period as evidenced through surviving artefacts.
Carol Hydes is working on mosaics in Italy in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Gavin Osbourne: go34@sussex.ac.uk Gavin studied Art History at the University of Sussex where he is now undertaking a AHRC funded PhD entitled ‘Magic in Early Byzantine floor mosaics’. His thesis asks whether supernatural powers were invested into tessellated floors
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge: est20@central.susx.ac.uk Elza is working on a DPhil entitled 'Colour and Light in the Seventeenth-Century Churches of Arbanassi (Bulgaria)'. She is a recipient of a University of Sussex Seedcorn Scholarship. Being trained in science and arts, in her research she employs scientific analytical methods in the examination of four post-Byzantine churches. A couple of her peer-reviewed papers, published on topics related to her thesis have attracted national grants, enabling their presentation at international forums.
Former students:
Wendy Watson: ww31@sussex.ac.uk 'The Art of Personification in Late Antique Silver, Third to Sixth Century AD'. Completed 2012.
Rebecca Raynor: r.raynor@sussex.ac.uk, ‘In the Image of Saint Luke: The Artist in Early Byzantium’. Completed 2012.
Iuliana Gavril: I.Gavril@sussex.ac.uk Archi-Texts’ for Contemplation in Sixth-Century Byzantium. The Case of the Church of Hagia Sophia Constantinople. Completed 2012
Daniel Howells: 'Late Antique Gold Glass.' Daniel held a Sussex-British Museum (Chris Entwhistle) AHRC PhD scholarship. Completed 2010.
Helen Rufus-Ward: H.C.Rufus-Ward@sussex.ac.uk 'Views from the Ivory Tower: 19th century responses to the Late Antique and Byzantine ivories within the Liverpool Ivory Collection'. Completed 2009.
Nadine Schibille: n.schibille@sussex.ac.uk 'Light in Byzantine art and architecture'. Completed 2004.
Vassiliki Dimitropoulou: vassiliki71@hotmail.com 'Female Imperial Patronage in the Komnenian era. Completed 2004.