Principal Academic Organizer
Teresa Shawcross
Princeton University, Department of History and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Email: cshawcro@princeton.edu
Webpage: https://history.princeton.edu/people/teresa-shawcross
Teresa Shawcross is Associate Professor in History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and a Senior Member of Robinson College, Cambridge University. She is a historian of the medieval Mediterranean whose research interests are situated at the interstices of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Near East. Her publications have been especially concerned with contact, conflict and exchange between different ethnoreligious and social groups – often within the context of large-scale migration and the experiences of migrants (e.g. colonizers, enslaved persons, refugees). Recent studies have explored interactions with the Central Asian and Atlantic worlds. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Stavros Niarchos Center for Hellenic Studies (Simon Fraser University), Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Cambridge), School of Oriental and African Studies (London University), and American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Academic Co-Organizers
Lillian Datchev
Cornell University, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies
Email: led224@cornell.edu
Webpage: https://arthistory.cornell.edu/lillian-e-datchev
Lillian Datchev is a Klarman postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. She studies the cultural and intellectual traditions of premodern Europe, and specializes in the history of Italy and its global contacts during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her dissertation examined the late medieval Italian colonies in Greece and their role in shaping early modern antiquarian scholarship. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Bologna in 2020-2021, and the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome in 2021-2022.
Earnestine M. Qiu
Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology
Email: eq2@princeton.edu
Webpage: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/earnestine-qiu
Earnestine Qiu studies Byzantine art, with a focus on late-medieval Anatolia and the artistic and theological exchanges between Byzantium and Armenia. She is particularly interested in depictions of topography and magic. Earnestine holds a B.A. in Linguistics and Art History from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Art History from Tufts University. She has interned at the International Center of Medieval Art and has held positions in curatorial departments at the Morgan Library and Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.