Maria Mavroudi

Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967) is a Greek-born American Byzantinist, historian, and philologist. She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Education Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece; from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree; and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies. Her doctoral advisor was Ihor Ševčenko.

Career She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.

Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic,

Awards 2004, MacArthur Fellowship The Occult Sciences in Byzantium, Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006, "Theodore Hyrtakenos''' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002,