Maria Mavroudi
Maria Mavroudi is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.
Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks modern Greek and English fluently. She formerly taught at Princeton University.Life
She graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree, and from Harvard University with a PhD in Byzantine Studies.
She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.Awards
- 2004 MacArthur Fellowship
Works
- A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources,
- , Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006,
- the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002,
- , Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002,
