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Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Sharon E. J. Gerstel in Los Angeles, 2020
Born
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materBryn Mawr College

Sharon E. J. Gerstel (Greek: Σάρον Γκερστέλ) is an American historian and archaeologist. She is Professor of Byzantine Art & Archaeology, George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair[1] in Hellenic Studies, and Director[2] of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.[3]

Life edit

Sharon E. J. Gerstel was born in New York City. She attended Bryn Mawr College and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University where she studied Byzantine Art History and History.[4]

After completing studies and fieldwork in Thessaloniki, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, where she taught Byzantine art history from 1994-2004 holding, at the same time, a position at Dumbarton Oaks.[4]

In 2005, she joined the faculty of the UCLA where she was promoted to Full Professor in 2007. From 2016-2018, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA and was named inaugural director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture in 2019, a position she continues to hold.

In the 2010s, Gerstel and a team undertook research the acoustics of churches in the Byzantine era.[5]

In 2020, Gerstel criticized plans to convert the Hagia Sophia to a mosque, calling it "anti-Orthodox" and "an attempt at cultural erasure".[6]

Personal life edit

Gerstel moved to the West Coast in the 2000s. She has one child.[4]

Awards and recognition edit

In recognition of her service to the Hellenic Republic, she was awarded honorary citizenship in 2021 and, in the same year, was named a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, one of Greece’s highest honors.[7]

For her work as an art historian, she has been awarded the prestigious Runciman Prize, the inaugural book prize by the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA), and the Maria Theocharis Prize by the Christian Archaeological Society in Greece. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a J. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She was also awarded the Theodore Saloutos Award by the American Hellenic Council in 2019[8] and was honored, in the same year, by the Hellenic Society of Constantinople.

Publications edit

Books and edited volumes edit

  • Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary, CAA Monograph on the Fine Arts LVI (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999).
  • Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography. Cambridge. 2015. ISBN 978-0-521-85159-6.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J.; Lauffenburger, J. (2001). A Lost Art Rediscovered: The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (2006). Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0-88402-311-1.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (2013). Viewing the Morea: Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-88402-390-6.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (2016). "Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean". Studies in the Visual Arts of the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.

Articles and book chapters edit

  • "Liturgical Scrolls in the Byzantine Sanctuary". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 35: 195–204. 1994.
  • "Apostolic Embraces in Communion Scenes of Byzantine Macedonia". Cahiers archéologiques. 44: 141–48. 1996.
  • "An Introduction to Mediaeval Panakton". Boeotia Antiqua. 6: 144–51. 1996.
  • "The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Report (Sections on Roman, Medieval, and Turkish Pottery and Medieval and Venetian History)". Hesperia. 66: 469–82. 1997.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (1997). "The Transformation of the Miraculous Mandylion". In Lidov, A. (ed.). Chudotvornaia Ikona v Vizantii i Drevnei Rusi (in Russian). Moscow. pp. 76–87.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "St. Eudokia and the Imperial Household of Leo VI". The Art Bulletin. 79: 699–707. 1997. doi:10.1080/00043079.1997.10786807 (inactive 2024-03-14).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of March 2024 (link)
  • Davis, J., ed. (1998). "Medieval Messenia". Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino. Austin, TX. pp. 210–42.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (1998). "Painted Sources for Female Piety in Medieval Byzantium". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 52: 89–111. doi:10.2307/1291778. JSTOR 1291778.
  • Gerstel, S. (2001). "Ceramic Icons from Medieval Constantinople". In Gerstel, S.; Lauffenburger, J. (eds.). A Lost Art Rediscovered: Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium. University Park, PA. pp. 42–65.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • “Art and Identity in the Medieval Morea,” in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, A. Laiou and R. Mottahedeh, eds. (Washington, D.C., 2001), 263-85.
  • “Imago Dei and the Scholarly Contributions of Jaroslav Pelikan,” in The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Fifty Years (Washington, D.C., 2002), 156-58.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (2002). "The Sins of the Farmer: Illustrating Village Life (and Death) in Medieval Byzantium". In Contreni, J.; Casciani, S. (eds.). Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages. Florence. pp. 205–17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Morrison, C. XI; Lefort, J.; Sodini, J. P., eds. (2006). "The Byzantine Village Church: Observations on its Location and on Agricultural Aspects of its Program". Les villages dans l'Empire byzantin (IVe-XVe siècle), Réalités byzantines. Paris. pp. 165–78.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • “The Layperson in the Byzantine Church: Rites and Reactions,” in A People's History of Christianity, V, Byzantine Christianity, D. Krueger, ed. (Minneapolis, 2006), 102-23.
  • “Nuns of the Byzantine Countryside” (with A.-M. Talbot), Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 27 (2006), 481-90.
  • “An Alternate View of the Late Byzantine Sanctuary Screen,” in Thresholds of the Sacred: Art Historical, Archaeological, Liturgical and Theological Views on Religious Screens, East and West (Washington D.C., 2006), 134-61.
  • “The Culture of Lay Piety in Medieval Byzantium (1054-1453),” (with A.-M. Talbot) in The Cambridge History of Christianity, V, Eastern Christianity, M. Angold, ed. (London, 2006), 79-100.
  • “The Chora Parekklesion, the Hope for a Peaceful Afterlife, and Monastic Devotional Practices” in The Kariye Camii Reconsidered, H. A. Klein, R. G. Ousterhout, B. Pitarakis, eds., Istanbul Research Institute Symposium Series 1 (Istanbul, 2011), 107-45.
  • "The Nikomedia Workshop: New Evidence on Byzantine Tiles". The Journal of the Walters Art Museum. 66–67: 5–53. 2008–2009.
  • “‘Tiles of Nicomedia’ and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon,” in Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, D. Sullivan, E. Fisher, and S. Papaioannou, eds. (Brussels, 2011), 173-86.
  • “Facing Architecture: Views on Ceramic Revetments and Paving Tiles in Byzantium, Anatolia, and the Medieval West,” in From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts and Their Status in Medieval Art History, C. Hourihane, ed. (Princeton, 2012), 43-65.
  • “Mapping the Boundaries of Church and Village: Ecclesiastical and Rural Landscapes in the Late Byzantine Peloponnese” in Viewing the Morea: Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA, 2013), 334-68.
  • “Female Church Founders: The Agency of the Village Widow in Late Byzantium,” (with S. Kalopissi-Verti), Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 60/61 (2011-2012) (published in 2013), 193-209.
  • “Monastic Soundspaces: The Art and Act of Chanting,” in Resounding Images: The Aural and Visual Arts [in Harmony], 800-1500, S. Boynton and D. J. Reilly, eds. (Turnhout, 2015), 135-52.
  • “Between Heaven and Earth: Views of Byzantine Thessaloniki” (with Anastassios C. Antonaras) in Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean (Turnhout, 2016), 87-111.
  • “Crossing Borders: The Ornamental Decoration of St. Nicholas at Phountoukli at Rhodes,” Mélanges Catherine Jolivet-Lévy. Travaux et Mémoires 20/2 (2016): 155-69.
  • “The Iconography of Light” (with Michael Cothren), The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography, C. Hourihane, ed. (Abingdon, 2017), 469-82.
  • “Soundscapes of Byzantium” (with S. Antonopoulos, C. Kyriakakis, K Raptis and J. Donahue), Speculum 92/S1 (2017), 323-335.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J.; Kyriakakis, Chris; Raptis, Konstantinos T.; Antonopoulos, Spyridon; Donahue, James (2018). "Soundscapes of Byzantium: The Acheiropoietos Basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki". Hesperia. 87 (1): 179–204.
  • “Between East and West: Locating Monumental Painting from the Peloponnesos” (with M. Kappas), in Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway? A. Lymberopoulou, ed. (London, 2018), 175-202.
  • Brodbeck, S.; Poilpré, A. O., eds. (2019). "Images in Churches in Late Byzantium: Reflections and Directions". Visibilité et présence de l'image dans l'espace ecclésial: Byzance et Moyen Âge occidental. Paris. pp. 93–120.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • “Recording Village History: The Church of Hagioi Theodoroi, Vamvaka,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 38 (2020), 21-42.
  • Gerstel, S.; Kyriakakis, C.; Raptis, K.; Antonopoulos, S.; Donahue, J. (2014). "…σωμάτων τε καὶ πνευμάτων: ηχοτοπία της βυζαντινής Θεσσαλονίκης" […of Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Byzantine Thessaloniki]. Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη (in Greek). 28: 425–32.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J.; Kyriakakis, Chris; Antonopoulos, Spyridon; Raptis, Konstantinos T.; Donahue, James (April 2021). "Holy, Holy, Holy: Hearing the Voices of Angels". Gesta. 60 (1): 31–49. doi:10.1086/712644.
  • “Rite and Passage in the Middle Byzantine Church,” in The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, ed. Richard A. Etlin, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 2022), 1:106-120.
  • Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (2023). "Laskarina Bouboulina Imagined: Portraits of a Greek Heroine". In Kalogeropoulos, A. (ed.). Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821. Lanham, MD: Householder. pp. 149–79.

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References edit

  1. ^ "Sharon Gerstel". Art History. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  2. ^ Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. "Sharon E. J. Gerstel, PhD".
  3. ^ "UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Announces Appointment of Sharon E. J. Gerstel as Director". UCLA. 14 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Sharon Gerstel". Dumbarton Oaks. 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  5. ^ LaFrance, Adrienne (2016-02-19). "Hearing the Lost Sounds of Antiquity". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  6. ^ Mordoudack, Alexander (2020-11-09). "Scholar Calls Aghia Sophia Reconversion "An Anti-Orthodox, Anti-Greek Ideology"". The Greek National Herald. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  7. ^ "Sharon Gerstel named commander of Order of the Phoenix". UCLA. 2021-07-12.
  8. ^ "Prof. Sharon Gerstel Honoree 2019". American Hellenic Council of California. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
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