Notes on Contributors
Anna Adashinskaya
Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and a former fellow at New Europe College in the framework of the ERC project Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe. An Inquiry from the Perspective of Entangled Histories. She received an M.A. in Medieval Studies from Central European University and a Specialist Degree in Art History from Moscow State University. She completed her doctorate in Medieval Studies at Central European University, specializing in Byzantine art and patronage.
Jelena Bogdanović
Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. She is the author and editor of six books, including The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (2017), Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (2018), and Icons of Space (2021).
Debanjana Chatterjee
M.Arch., is an architectural designer, urban planner, researcher, and educator. She currently works as a designer at Leo A Daly. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Architecture and Planning department at Amity University, India, and a Research Assistant at Iowa State University.
Ljiljana Čavić
Ph.D., graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade (2007) and received her doctorate at the Lisbon School of Architecture (2018). Since 2014, she is an associated member of CIAUD (O Centro de investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design) and DCG (Design and Computation Group) at the Lisbon School of Architecture, where she also teaches project design.
Aleksandar Čučaković
Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Computer-Aided Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is an expert in descriptive geometry, projective geometry, computer-aided geometry, engineering graphics, 3D visual communications, and geometry in general, with its applications in engineering and science. He is the author/co-author of several publications in high-ranked journals in WoS and conference proceedings (Cultural Heritage, 2016; Geometry-Anamorphosis, 2016; Architecture and Mathematics, 2015, 2016, 2019).
Dušan Danilović
Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, where he works in the departments of Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy, and Communication of Science and Technology. His professional expertise includes work on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Since he was an undergraduate student in the Department of Astronomy, Belgrade University, he has studied and published on the preservation and dissemination of astronomical knowledge in the Byzantine Empire.
Magdalena Dragović
Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Computer-Aided Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade. She works on 3D modeling in architecture and cultural heritage preservation. She published more than 80 journal articles and conference proceedings. She is a member of international editorial boards and committees in geometry.
Natalia Figueiras Pimentel
Ph.D. candidate, is an art historian (Santiago of Compostela University, USC), art curator and restorer (Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV), superior technician in Plastic Arts & Design and professional photographer (EASD ‘Antonio Faílde’), and Professor of Art History and Photography (Popular University of Ourense, UPO). In 2007, she created and directed the only Technical Center for Conservation and Restoration of Heritage in Galicia (CTSM: ‘San Martín’ Technical Center). She is director of the Agora, Art & Heritage Laboratory, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees and Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the San Pedro de Rocas Foundation.
Leslie Forehand
M.Arch., is Assistant Professor at Long Beach City College in Los Angeles. She is a licensed architect, researcher, educator, and designer with over ten years of experience collaborating with engineers, scientists, historians, artists, and fashion designers. She currently leads the Architecture program at Long Beach City College in California. Among her award-winning projects is Mashrabiya 2.0 (with Doyle, Hunt and Senske) in computation, masonry design and construction, awarded by the International Masonry Institute (2018).
Jacob Gasper
B.Arch., worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Computation + Construction lab and the Study Studenica projects. He has additional experience in landscape design, digital fabrication, and set design. His work has been published in conference proceedings and exhibited internationally.
Vera Henkelmann
Ph.D., studied art history, medieval and early modern history, as well as prehistory at the University of Bonn, and holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Dortmund. She was awarded the dissertation prize of the University of Dortmund for her thesis Spätgotische Marienleuchter: Formen, Funktionen, Bedeutungen (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2014).
Gabriel-Dinu Herea
Ph.D., studied Orthodox Theology and Philosophy and holds a doctorate in Art History (2013). He was the titular priest of the Church of the Holy Cross in Pătrăuți for over fifteen years, and has published several volumes on this and other medieval monuments in the area. His latest book, on the symbolism of sunlight at Pătrăuți, was published in several languages. He is currently the archbishopric’s supervisor for historical monuments in Suceava, Romania.
Vladimir Ivanovici
Ph.Ds. in History (2011) and Art History (2014), was postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte Rom (2015–2017) and summer fellow at Dumbarton Oaks (2019). He studies the use of light as a manifestation of the divine from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, with particular focus on its Inszenieung in cultic spaces and on the living body as medium of theophany. He is Lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Universita’ della Svizzera italiana and Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna.
Charles Kerton
Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Iowa State University. He worked on the International Galactic Plane Survey at the National Research Council of Canada before joining the Iowa State faculty. His research is in the area of observational studies of star formation and the physics of the interstellar medium, and the use of a wide variety of observational facilities ranging from the enormous 110-m diameter Green Bank radio telescope to the 0.8-m orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope in the infrared.
Jorge López Quiroga
Ph.D., is Professor-Researcher of Medieval Archaeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid since 2002. He holds a doctorate in Medieval History from Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris IV, and in Geography and History and European Doctor from Santiago of Compostela University. He is a former member of the ‘Casa de Velázquez’. He has been Visiting Professor at various European and American universities. He was director (2004 and 2008) of the ‘Spanish Archaeological Mission’ in Conimbriga (Portugal). He is the author, editor and/or coordinator of 18 monographs and 150 articles, book chapters, and publications in various congresses. His research has focused, for more than thirty years, on Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the West.
Anastasija Martinenko
Ph.D. candidate in Geodesy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, studies geoinformatics. Her research is in photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning, with visualization and modeling of cultural heritage. Her expertise is in processing, analyzing, 3D modeling, and distribution of point clouds obtained by applying photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. She is the author of several publications in photogrammetry and Computer-aided Geometry.
Andrea Mattiello
Ph.D., completed a doctorate at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, and another in History and Theory of Performance Art at the School for Advanced Studies in Venice. He has recently co-edited the volume Late Byzantium Reconsidered (2019). He has conducted research at the International Centre for Architectural Studies “Andrea Palladio”, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and with the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. He has lectured in the Department for Design and the Arts at the Università IUAV of Venice, at the University of Birmingham, and at Christie’s Education London.
Rubén G. Mendoza
Ph.D., is an archaeologist, writer, and photographer who has explored the length and breadth of Mexico, Central America, Europe, and the American Southwest documenting both pre-Columbian and Colonial era sites and collections. A founding faculty member of the California State University, Monterey Bay, he has directed major archaeological investigations and conservation projects at missions San Juan Bautista, San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, and Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, among others. He has published over 75 studies and scores of images spanning a range of topics, including pre-Columbian and Colonial era art and architecture, California missions’ art and architecture, American Indian science, technology, and medicine, and modern material cultures.
Marko Pejić
Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Geodetic Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He is an expert in surveying using terrestrial laser scanning technology, particularly in mathematical models of scanning, data registration, georeferencing, and 3D modeling. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, some of which in high-ranking status in WoS (Tunneling and Underground Space Technology, 2013; Measurement, 2014; Automation in Construction, 2016). He is also Associate Editor of the international Journal of Geodetic Science (since 2014).
Iakovos Potamianos
Ph.D., is Professor of the History of Architecture and Theory of Visual Reception at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a B.A. in architecture from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an M.A. in architecture from the California Polytechnic State University, and a Ph.D. in architectural theory from the University of Michigan. His publications include, among others, several studies of the use of light in Byzantine and post-Byzantine architecture. A student and a translator of Rudolf Arnheim into Greek, he focuses on his teaching and research on issues relating to the phenomenological perception of space, i.e. the philosophy and the poetics of space as perceived by the human eye.
Maria Shevelkina
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, studies Byzantine and medieval Slavic art. She spent two summers in Ferapontov, Russia: first as an intern in the Rare Books and Manuscripts division of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes, and then as a visiting community member of the neighboring village Diakonovskaya. Her work centers on vision and sound as essential mediators of culturally-based perception and she is interested in phenomenology, mysticism, monumental wall-paintings, color, light, and movement.
Alice Isabella Sullivan
Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the author of award-winning articles in The Art Bulletin (2017) and Speculum (2019), and the co-author of a study in Gesta (2021), among other peer-reviewed publications. She is co-editor of Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2020) and Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions (De Gruyter, 2022), as well as co-founder of North of Byzantium and Mapping Eastern Europe – two initiatives that explore the history, art, and culture of the northern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe during the medieval and early modern periods.
Travis Yeager
Ph.D., works at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, where his main research focus is on detecting Earth-crossing asteroids.
Olga Yunak
Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, studies the intersection of art and theology in late Byzantium and medieval Rus. She is interested in the artist-image-beholder relation in the liturgical context of the Byzantine church. Her case study is the Transfiguration Church on Il’ina Street in Novgorod. With her dissertation she attempts to place Theophanes the Greek as an artist and a theologian in the larger context of the Byzantine and European art.