Evanthia Baboula
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Credentials
Ptychion (BA Athens) (Archaeology and Art History), MPhil, DPhil (Oxford, 2003) (Archaeology)
Area of expertise
Material & Visual Cultures of the Mediterranean
Areas of Research
- Literary and visual sources of Late Byzantine period
- Cross-cultural interactions in the east Mediterranean
- Encounter of east and west in Crusader period
- The post-Byzantine art and architecture of Greece (focus on the Ottoman period)
- Ancient and medieval funerary practices; production/circulation of metals
Brief biography
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History & Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. I studied archaeology and art history at the University of Athens and later received my M.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford for research on the provenance, use, and exchange of metals in the Late Bronze Age of Crete and Cyprus.
My interests later turned to historical periods. I teach mainly on the arts of the East Mediterranean from the Late Antique to the Late Medieval periods. I research cross-cultural connections, focusing on the relationship of image and word in the medieval Mediterranean, especially on the Crusader and Late Byzantine periods (12th–15th centuries), and the architecture and topography of southern Greece in the Ottoman period (15th–19th centuries).
Recent publications include Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd, edited with Lesley Jessop (published by Brill, 2021); and Made for the Eye of One Who Sees: Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology, edited with Marcus Milwright (2022) by McGill-Queen’s University Press and the Royal Ontario Museum.
I also direct the Medieval Studies Program, a set of Honours, Majors and General and Minor interdisciplinary programs which are based at the Faculty of Humanities. In addition, I run the UVic Annual Medieval Conference and liaise with a diverse community of on- and off-campus enthusiasts about the Medieval world. For matters related to Medieval Studies, please contact me at dirmedi@uvic.ca.