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

Research Interests:  

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.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

Books

•  Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Themeparks.  University of Chicago Press, 2006 .
•  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)
•  Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 .
•  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 .
•  Tokali Kilise. Tenth Century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXII.  Washinton, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University, 1986 .
• 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)