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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
NIKI TSIRONIS
FUNCTIONAL RESEARCHER B GRADE
Phone: 0030 210 7273687
Fax: 0030 210 7273629
E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Website: http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/ibr/cvs/cv-tsironi-en.html
STUDIES
1986
School of Journalism - Diploma in Journalism
Focus Areas: Cultural journalism with emphasis on history and
art
1990
King’s College London - Diploma in Late Antique and Byzantine
Studies
Supervisor: Professor Roderick Beaton, Koraes’ Professor in
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Focus Areas: Theory of Orality and Greek Folk Song
1991
King’s College London - M.A. in Late Antique and Byzantine
Studies
Dissertation: Michael Glykas’ Verses Written in Prison
Supervisor: Roderick Beaton, Koraes’ Professor in Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies
1998
King’s College London - Ph.D. in Late Antique and Byzantine
Studies
Thesis: The Lament of the Virgin Mary from Romanos the
Melode to George of Nicomedia: An Aspect of the Development
of the Marian Cult
Supervisor: Dame Professor Averil Cameron, FBA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
1996
Associate researcher at the Oxford Summer School on “The
Council of Ephesus (431)”, directed by Metropolitan Kallistos
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Ware and Prof. Andrew Louth
1997
Associate researcher at the Oxford Summer School on “The
Pneumatology of Basil the Great”, directed by Metropolitan
Kallistos Ware and Prof. Andrew Louth
1997-1999
Associate researcher at the Institute for Byzantine Research of
the National Hellenic Research Foundation for the project
Prosopography of Asia Minor
1998-2000
Associate researcher at the History Department of the Ionian
University, Corfu
2000-2003
Functional Researcher D at the Institute for Byzantine Research,
of the National Hellenic Research Foundation
2003-2005
Teaching Byzantine cultural history to graduate students from
American Universities for the Study Abroad Program of the
Arcadia Centre for Greek, Balkan and Mediterranean Studies and
Research
2004-2009
Functional Researcher C at the Institute for Byzantine Research,
of the National Hellenic Research Foundation
2008-
Academic coordinator of the Athens Dialogues Project of the
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
2009-
Functional Researcher B at the Institute for Byzantine Research,
currently Institute of Historical Research, of the National
Hellenic Research Foundation
2012-
Associate in Byzantine Studies, Center for Hellenic Studies,
Harvard University
2013-
Academic responsible for the cooperation between the Centre
for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University and the Society for
the Promotion of Education and Learning
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural history
Iconoclasm
Homiletics
Theatre and Liturgy (Performance)
Relationship between word and art
Dreams
History of books and bindings
Medical humanities
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
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Academic responsible of the research project “The Book in Byzantium. Byzantine
and Post-Byzantine Bookbinding”
Curator of exhibitions on Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Bookbinding (Athens,
Drama, Ioannina, Messolonghi)
Editor of the Proceedings of the international conference “The Book in
Byzantium. Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Bookbinding”
Editor together with Basile Atsalos of the 3 volumes proceedings of the 6th
International Symposium on Greek Paleography
Academic responsible for the cooperation of the National Hellenic Research
Foundation with the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Academic responsible of the international relations of the Onassis Foundation
for the Athens Dialogues Project
Executive editor of the Athens Dialogues electronic journal implemented by the
Centre for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University
Academic organizer of numerous colloquia and international conferences for the
Universities of London, Oxford, the Foundation for Hellenic Culture, the NHRF,
the Onassis Foundation and other public benefit foundations
Academic responsible for projects aiming to the dissemination of research
(Researchers’ Night 2007, 2011)
Academic supervisor of historical audiovisual material and documentaries
President of the cultural society AINOS (for the promotion of Patristic and
Byzantine Studies)
Academic responsible for the activities of the Fellowship of St Alban and St
Sergius (Oxford) in Greece
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
1. Reconstructing Byzantine Bookbinding through Images and objects”, in Liz
James and Anthony Eastmond (eds.), Wonderful Things, Ashgate, Aldershot
2013, 71-78
2. Desire, Longing and Fear in the Narrative of Middle Byzantine Homiletics”, in J.
Baun, A. Cameron, M. Edwards and M. Vinzent (eds.), Studia Patristica XLIV,
Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2010, 515-520
3. Emotion and the Senses in Middle-Byzantine Homiletics, in Mary Cunningham
and Leslie Brubaker (eds.), The Mother of God in Byzantium. Relics, Icons and
Texts, Brill Leiden 2010, 179-198
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4. From Poetry to Liturgy: The Cult of the Virgin in the Middle Byzantine Era”,
Images of the Virgin, Maria Vassilaki (ed.), Images of the Mother of God:
Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium, Aldershot 2005, 91–102
5. The Body and the Senses in the Work of Cassia the Hymnographer: Literary
Trends in the Iconoclastic Period”, Symmeikta 16, Institute for Byzantine
Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2004, 139-157
6. H τέχνη της βιβλιοδεσίας. Θησαυροί της πόλης των Ιωαννίνων, Αθήνα 2003
7. Κασσιανή η Υμνωδός, α’ και β’ έκδοση, Αθήνα 2002
8. The Mother of God in the Iconoclastic Controversy”, in Maria Vassilaki (ed.),
Mother of God. Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art, Milan 2000, 2147
9. Representations of the Virgin and their Association with the Passion of Christ”
with Maria Vassilaki in the Mother of God. Representations of the Virgin in
Byzantine Art, Milan 2000, 453-463
10. Convention and Originality in the Homily on Good Friday by George of
Nicomedia”, Twelfth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford.
Studia Patristica, vol. XXX, Dr. E.A. Livingstone (ed.), Peeters, Leuven 1997,
332-336