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Graduate Programs in North America
The BSANA has taken over responsibility for maintaining and updating the Graduate Programs in North America website initiated at Dumbarton Oaks. It makes no claims to be an exhaustive list, and depends for accuracy on the cooperation of Byzantinist faculty members at North American universities. Please note that seminaries are not included in this listing.

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Brown University
Department of Religious Studies (updated July 2007)
Box 1927
Providence, RI 02912-1927
Tel: 401-863-3104
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Faculty member: Susan Ashbrook Harvey (on leave 2007-08)
Email address: susan_harvey@brown.edu

Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2004-07: The Virgin Mary in Late Antiquity; Ecology and Theology in Ancient Christianity; Sacred Bodies; Asceticism in Late Antiquity; Ancient Christianity and the Sensing Body; the Christianization of the Syrian Orient.

Note: There is great strength in Late Antiquity. In addition to Religious Studies, there are important faculty in Classics, Egyptology, Art and Archaeology (with a new Institute of Archaeology, Prof. Susan Alcock, Director), and Judaic Studies.

Faculty member: Nancy Khalek
Email address: Nancy_Khalek@brown.edu

Department of Classics (updated July 2007)
Macfarlane House,
48 College Street,
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2123
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Faculty member: Stratis Papaioannou
Email address: Eustratios_Papaioannou@brown.edu

Titles of Byzantine (related) courses taught 2006-8: The World of Byzantium; Greek Palaeography and Premodern Book Cultures; Greek Erotic Literature: from Plato to the Medieval Romances; Greek Autobiography: From Plato to the Middle Ages; The Invention of Literature: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Early Byzantine Literature.