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Early Christian and Byzantine Art & Architecture, Modern Architecture

My work has focused on Late Antique and Byzantine art and culture, but I have also investigated the effect of modernity on the medieval past and its landscapes, first in my study of the first generation of Hilton International Hotels (Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 2001) and most recently in a book titled Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks, University of Chicago Press, 2006). I am beginning work on a new project considering the modern recycling of pre-modern buildings. This study will document the physical, economic and political implications of contemporary appropriations of architecture and history.

Education:

• PhD Courtauld Institute, University of London 1975
• MA University of Chicago 1969
• BS University of Wisconsin, Madison 1966

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Themeparks. University of Chicago Press, (2006).
2.  Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2001). (selected as one of the best books of 2001 by the Economist)
3.  Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, (1995).
4.  Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery. A Comparative Study of Four Provinces. University Park, Pa & London: Pennsylvania State University Press, (1988).
5.  Tokali Kilise. Tenth Century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXII. Washinton, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University, (1986).
6. with A. P. Kazhdan. Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1985). (Reprinted in paperback, 1990)